Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers

Nicholas Burns

Nicholas Burns is professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is director of the Future of Diplomacy Project and faculty chair for the Programs on the Middle East and on India and South Asia. He serves on the Board of Directors of the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and is a faculty associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Frances Townsend

Frances Fragos Townsend served as assistant to President George W. Bush for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and chaired the Homeland Security Council from May 2004 until January 2008. She previously served as deputy assistant to the President and deputy national security advisor for Combating Terrorism from May 2003 to May 2004. Most recently, Townsend provided consulting services and advice to corporate entities on Global Strategic Engagement and Risk as well as Crisis and Contingency planning. Townsend is a contributor for CNN and has regularly appeared on network and cable television as a counterterrorism, national and homeland security expert. She has received numerous awards for her public service accomplishments.

Melissa Boteach

Melissa is the Vice President of the Center for American Progress' Poverty and Prosperity Program and the "Half in Ten" program to cut poverty in half in the next ten years. She is the policy lead on the Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink. Melissa is a regular guest on MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, and other national media outlets. She was named to the Forbes' 2011 List for 30 Under 30 for law and public policy.

Scott Winship

Scott is the Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is an expert on living standards and economic mobility, inequality, and insecurity. He was previously the Research Manager of th Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts and a Senior Policy Advisor at Third Way. His research has been publishes in National Affairs, National Review, The Wilson Quarterly, Breakthrough Journal, and Real Clear Markets.

Jonah Goldberg

Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. A bestselling author and columnist, Jonah Goldberg's nationally syndicated column appears regularly in scores of newspapers across the United States. He is also a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a member of the board of contributors to USA Today, a contributor to Fox News, a contributing editor to National Review, and the founding editor of National Review Online.

Eugene Robinson

Robinson uses his twice-weekly column in The Washington Post to pick American society apart and then put it back together again in unexpected and revelatory new ways. His remarkable story-telling ability has won him wide acclaim, most notably as the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his commentary on the 2008 presidential race that resulted in the election of America’s first African-American president.

William Kristol

William Kristol is founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, a journal of politics and ideas located in Washington, D.C. For a decade he was a regular panelist on FOX News Sunday, and now appears on all the leading political talk shows.

Bill Richardson

Bill Richardson sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2008. Richardson recently completed his second term as Governor of New Mexico in January 2011. He was elected Governor in 2002 and re-elected in 2006 with the support of 69 percent of voters, representing the largest margin of victory for any Governor in state history.

Ari Fleischer

During his time as the White House press secretary, Fleischer served as spokesman during the historic presidential recount, Sept. 11, two wars and an anthrax attack at a postal facility that handled government mail. Since leaving the White House, Fleischer has worked extensively in the world of sports as a media relations consultant. He is also the author of the best-selling book, Taking Heat, which recounts his years in the White House and reached No. 7 on The New York Times best-seller list.

Ezra Klein

Klein focuses on domestic and economic policymaking in his columns for The Washington Post, and is also a contributor to MSNBC. He’s appeared on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “Charlie Rose,” “Real Time with Bill Maher,” “The McLaughlin Report,” “The Colbert Report” and many more. In 2011, Klein’s blog, Wonkblog, was the most-read blog at The Washington Post. That same year GQ named him one of the 50 most powerful people in Washington.