Edwin Meese III, counselor to President Reagan from 1981-85 and U.S. Attorney General from 1985-88, is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation. As Chairman of the Domestic Policy Council and the National Drug Policy Board, and as a member of the National Security Council in the Reagan Administration, he played a key role in the development and execution of domestic and foreign policy.

Phyllis Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. She has been prominent in the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum. Mrs. Schlafly’s most recent book is Feminist Fantasies, a collection of essays on feminism in the media, workplace, home, and the military. She was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies’ Home Journal.

Steven Hayward is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy. He studies the environment, law, political economy, and the presidency. Dr. Hayward is author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, published jointly by AEI and PRI. He is the author of several books, including The Real Jimmy Carter and The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order: 1964-1980.

Andrew Roberts studied modern history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he is an honorary senior scholar. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Napoleonic Institute, an honorary member of the International Churchill Society (UK), and a trustee of the Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust. He is a recipient of the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction. He has appeared on British television and radio, C-SPAN, the Charlie Rose Show, and Fox and Friends. His articles and reviews appear in The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, Literary Review, and Daily Telegraph, among others. He is author of several books, including Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership; Waterloo: The Battle for Modern Europe; and, most recently, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900

Doug Jeffrey is vice president for external affairs at Hillsdale College. In this position, he edits Imprimis and Hillsdale College Press and also oversees the college's many other publications and outreach programs, such as the Center for Constructive Alternatives, National Leadership Seminars, and the Center for Teacher Excellence. Prior to coming to Hillsdale in 2000, Mr. Jeffrey had served as director of scholarship, executive vice president, and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. From 1994 to 1997, he was editor of NR West, a supplement to National Review magazine that went to subscribers in nine western states. Mr. Jeffrey has also edited Principles: A Quarterly Review for Teachers of History and Social Science, the Claremont Review of Books, and most recently, Educating for Liberty: The Best of Imprimis, 1972-2002.

Paul Johnson, historian and journalist, is the author of several best-selling books, including George Washington: The Founding Father; Napoleon; A History of Christianity; The Renaissance: A Short History; A History of the American People; and the classic Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including National Review, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph, and the Daily Mail.

Larry P. Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College, received his Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School. He also studied in England, where he served as director of research for Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill. He was president of the Claremont Institute from 1985-2000, where he was the founding chairman of the California Civil Rights Initiative, which prohibited racial preferences in state hiring, contracting, and admissions. Published widely, he is on board of directors of the Heritage Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Center of Claremont McKenna College, the Center for Individual Rights and the Claremont Institute.

Carolyn Kley Fanning is the president and founder of Planned Giving Solutions, Inc., and a gift and estate-planning counselor at Hillsdale College, a private, independent undergraduate school in southern Michigan. Her articles related to estate planning have appeared in publications such as The Michigan CPA, Planned Giving Today, Successful Estate Planning Ideas and Methods, and The Tax Savings Reporter. From 1991 to 1999, Ms. Fanning was director of gift and estate planning at Hillsdale College and established one of the College's first regional offices in San Diego, California. From 1986 to1989, she worked as a staff CPA for Ernst & Whinney in their Boston and Chicago offices. Ms. Fanning received her BBA and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband, Mike (Director of the Hillsdale College Southeastern Regional Office), and son.

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Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a fellow in California studies at the Claremont Institute, and a distinguished fellow at Hillsdale College. He is a weekly columnist for National Review Online and has authored several books, including The Soul of Battle: How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny; Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power; Mexifornia: A State of Becoming; and, most recently, A War Like No Other.