contentions—foreign policy, American politics, international affairs, Israel and the Middle East, and more. Below is the list of contributors past and present.

David Billet is the assistant editor of COMMENTARY.

Max Boot is a senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (Gotham).

Ted R. Bromund teaches history and is associate director of International Security Studies at Yale.

Daniel Casse is senior director of the White House Writers Group, a public policy communications firm.

Gordon G. Chang writes widely on China and North Korea and is the author most recently of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World (Random House).

Linda Chavez, the author of An Unlikely Conservative (2002) and other books, is the chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity.

John Steele Gordon is the author of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic PowerAbe Greenwald is assistant online editor of COMMENTARY.

Abe Greenwald is assistant online editor of COMMENTARY.

James Kirchick is on the editorial staff of The New Republic and is a columnist for the Washington Blade and the Washington Examiner.

Jason Maoz is senior editor of The Jewish Press.

Yascha Mounk is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard University and editor of The Utopian magazine

Sam Munson is online editor of COMMENTARY.

Emanuele Ottolenghi, who was born in Bologna, Italy, is the director of the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels.

John Podhoretz is the editorial director of COMMENTARY.

Norman Podhoretz, who was editor-in-chief of COMMENTARY from 1960-1995, is now editor-at-large and an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute. His new book, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, is now available everywhere.

Noah Pollak is assistant editor of the Middle East Quarterly and is pursuing a master’s degree at Yale University.

Shmuel Rosner is a Tel Aviv-based columnist.

Jennifer Rubin is an attorney and journalist living in Virginia.

J.G. Thayer is a freelance writer living in New Hampshire  and the former editor of wizbangblog.com.

Michael J. Totten is a freelance writer and blogger who has reported from Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Cyprus, Turkey, and Israel. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, LA Weekly, Reason, and numerous other publications.

Justin Shubow is assistant editor of COMMENTARY.

Eric Trager is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on the Middle East. He was a 2006-2007 Islamic Civilizations Fulbright Scholar, based in Cairo, Egypt.

Peter Wehner served as deputy assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Strategic Initiatives in the White House. He is now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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