Mark Bauerlein
Mark Bauerlein is emeritus professor of English at Emory University, fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University, and an editor at First Things magazine. His scholarly books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy, The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief, and Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta. His popular books include The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future; Or, Don’t Trust Anyone under 30; Civil Rights Chronicle (contributor); The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking (editor); and The State of the American Mind (coeditor).
His scholarly essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, Philosophy and Literature, boundary 2, and Cultural Critique. His popular essays and reviews have appeared in Partisan Review, Yale Review, Wilson Quarterly, Times Literary Supplement, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Reason. His opinions and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Toronto Globe & Mail, The Guardian, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Post, Washington Times, and many other periodicals. He has done more than 450 media interviews, including with CBS News, Fox and Friends, Lou Dobbs, Nightline, ABC’s 20/20, Frontline, NPR’s All Things Considered, and BBC World Today. He has served as consultant to ETS, College Board (AP), International Baccalaureate, Common Core, the states of Florida and South Carolina, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
William Fahey is the third president of Thomas More College and brings to the office a record of institution building and broad scholarly accomplishments. On the natural level, he attributes his successes to the excellent counsel of family and friends, and to the guiding principle that a Catholic liberal arts education is truly an excellent foundation for all human action.
Richard M. Gamble (PhD, University of South Carolina) is professor of history and holds the Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Chair in History and Politics at Hillsdale College. His publications include The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation (ISI Books, 2003), The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being (ISI Book, 2007), the chapter on World War I for the Cambridge History of Religions in America, In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth, and A Fiery Gospel: The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War. He is currently at work on a religious history of the Prohibition movement and a history of the Concord School of Philosophy. His courses, essays, and reviews focus on the history of American civil religion and the long argument over American identity.
Gary L. Gregg, PhD, is author or editor of 10 books on American politics, the presidency, and the American Founding. He is an award-winning teacher and public lecturer, having most recently won the George Washington Medal for Public Communication. He holds the Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership at the University of Louisville, where he is also director of the McConnell Center and serves as director and lead faculty for the U.S. Army’s annual Strategic Broadening Seminar. He is also author of two young-adult novels: The Sporran and The Iona Conspiracy and is host of the podcast Vital Remnants.
Lorraine Smith Pangle is professor of government and codirector of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches political philosophy and ethics. She holds a BA in history from Yale and a PhD from the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought. Her books include Reason and Character: The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy, Virtue Is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy, The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin, Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship, as well as articles on ancient and modern political thought and the philosophy of education.
R.J. Snell is director of academic programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. Prior to his appointment at Witherspoon, he was professor of philosophy and director of the philosophy program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He has been visiting instructor in politics at Princeton, and has published books and articles on natural law, liberal education, sexual ethics, boredom, and more.
Bradley C.S. Watson is professor of politics and Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He is director of the college’s Center for Political and Economic Thought, a research and public affairs institute dedicated to the scholarly exposition of freedom, Western civilization, and the American experience. He has held visiting faculty appointments at Princeton University and Claremont McKenna College, and has been W. Glenn Campbell and Rita-Ricardo Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton, and Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center. He is a Senior Scholar of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, and has served on the boards of several organizations, including the National Association of Scholars and The Philadelphia Society.
Brian A. Williams is dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and the 