It is important to say that some of our articles are written by ordinary citizens laboring away in the private sector who are able to gather their thoughts and present them in an extraordinary way. These lay writers are some of our subscribers.

       The following are brief biographical statements of our other distinguished authors:

Allan C. Brownfeld writes a Washington-based syndicated column that appears throughout the U.S. and in a number of other countries. He is the author of five books, the latest of which is The Revolution Lobby, published by the Council for Inter-American Security.        He is associate editor of The Lincoln Review, published by the Lincoln Institute for Education and Research, and is a contributing editor of America’s Future, a twice-monthly review of news, books, and public affairs. He also serves as a contributing editor to Human Events, The St. Croix Review and The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. As a staff member of the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee he was the author of that committee’s study of the "New Left."

Joseph S. Fulda is author, most recently, of Eight Steps Towards Libertarianism, and is associate editor of Transaction’s Sexuality & Culture, contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty and Computers and Society, and writes the “Libertarian’s Corner” for the St. Croix Review. He holds five academic degrees in the life and mathematical sciences.        Joseph Fulda’s work has appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly, Artificial Intelligence and Law, British Journal of Educational Technology, Business and Society Review, Intellectual Property Journal, Journal of Information Ethics, Journal of Literary Semantics, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Mathematics Magazine, Mind, Thought, and the University of New Brunswick Law Journal, among many other outlets.

Anthony H. Harrigan has covered overseas assignments in Vietnam, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Israel, Greece, Panama, Japan, South Africa, Rhodesia, Germany, Turkey, and other countries.        He was associate editor of the Charleston News and Courier, 1955-70, covering foreign assignments at various times; Director of Foreign Policy Research Institute of South Carolina, 1960-62; correspondent for the Canadian Military Journal, 1964-71; member of the American Security Council, 1965-69; executive vice-president of the U.S. Industrial Council, 1970--; Director of the Center for Science and Technology; lecturer at National War College, and various colleges and military institutions in the U. S. and abroad.        Anthony Harrigan has also been the author of many books, for example The New Republic, One Against the Mob, A Guide to the War in Vietnam.

Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt University Professor emeritus at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He also serves as chairman of the board and editorial director of Transaction, publisher of record in international social science, also located at Rutgers. He has served in a variety of visiting professorships throughout the world, including most recently the Baccardi Chair at the University of Miami and the Zetterberg Lectures at the City University of Stockholm. His most recent major works are Behemoth: The History and Theory of Political Sociology; Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power, and The Decomposition of Sociology. With Jaime Suchlicki, he has edited Cuban Communism, now in its tenth edition.

Paul Kengor is a Professor of Political Science at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1997. He is the author of Wreath Layer or Policy Player: The Role of the Vice President in Foreign Policy, published by Lexington Books in 2000. He is now working on What Reagan Knew.        He has written for Political Science Quarterly and is a frequent guest newspaper columnist on political issues and has been quoted in newspapers around the country.

Herbert I. London was an instructor in American Studies at the New School for Social Research 1966; a research associate at the Australian National University, 1966-67; assistant professor at New York University, 1969-76, and professor of social studies, 1976--; director of “University Without Walls,” 1971-76, and dean of Gallatin Division, 1976-77. He is presently president of the Hudson Institute and John M. Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University.        Herbert London is also the author of numerous books, including Myths That Rule America, and Closing the Circle: A Cultural History of the Rock Revolution, and Why Are They Lying to Our Children?        He has told Contemporary Authors Online that “playing college and professional basketball as well as making rock records in the late "50s" account for his current interest in pop culture.

Thomas S. Martin, Professor of Philosophy, University of Nebraska at Kearney. Published in Gilbert!, The New Oxford Review, Diotima, and various other journals. Teaches courses in Political philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy in Literature and seminars on Dostoyevsky, G. K. Chesterton and Wittgenstein.

Delbert H. Meyer, M.D., graduated from Kansas University Medical School and obtained his internship and internal medicine training at Wayne County General Hospital in Michigan. He obtained his pulmonary training at Ann Arbor VA, Sacramento Medical Center, and the University of California at Davis. He has been in the practice of pulmonary medicine in Sacramento for thirty years.        He has completed four years as editor of Sacramento Medicine. He was responsible for a monthly editorial as well as a monthly column, titled “Hippocrates & His Kin.” In addition to Sacramento Medicine, his articles have appeared in California Medicine, Medical Sentinel, as well as a number of other medical journals. He has served on the editorial boards of California Physician, Sacramento Medicine, and Medical Sentinel. He maintains a faculty appointment with the University of California at Davis School of Medicine and serves as a preceptor for second year medical students.

Dwight D. Murphey is a professor of Business Law at Wichita State University, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. He practiced law for eight years before entering academia. He grew up in Denver, and did his undergraduate work in political science at the University of Colorado. After serving in the Marine Corps, he attended the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises’ classes at New York University before he went on to law school at the University of Denver College of Law.        He is the author of several books and many articles on ideologically-disputed historical issues and on comparative social and political philosophy. Philosophically, he is what he calls “a neo-classical liberal.” He was at one time the first vice president of the Philadelphia Society, and is the associate editor of the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.

Clifford F. Thies, a professor of economics and finance at Shenandoah University, received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston College in 1982. He previously taught at the University of Baltimore and the University of Montana. Professor Thies has authored or edited three books, as well as written eleven encyclopedia articles and four dozen articles in scholarly journals. He serves on the editorial boards of three scholarly journals as well as the editorial board of the St. Croix Review. Professor Thies has been a Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation, was named the 1987 Black & Decker Research Professor at the University of Baltimore, and was last year named the Association of Independent Schools and Colleges in Virginia Research Professor at Shenandoah University.

D. J. Tice is a columnist and editorial board member at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He has been a writer, editor and publisher for magazines and newspapers for more than twenty years. He is the author of two books: Minnesota’s Twentieth Century, winner of the 2000 Minnesota Book Award for History; and At Home With the Presidents, a study of the private lives of America’s chief executives, published in 1988.

Murray Weidenbaum is the founder and chairman of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, and Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his research on economic policy, taxes, government spending, and regulation. He served as President Reagan’s first Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1981-82) and was a key spokesman for the administration on economic and financial issues. During the years 1982-89, he was a member of the President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board. Earlier, Weidenbaum was the first Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Nixon administration. He also served as fiscal economist in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and as the Corporate Economist at the Boeing Company.        He is the author of eight books, the latest being the sixth edition of Business and Government in the Global Marketplace. His previous book, The Bamboo Network, was a finalist in the 1996 competition for global business book of the year. His Small Wars, Big Defense was judged by the Association of American Publishers to be the outstanding economics book of 1992. He has written several hundred articles in publications ranging from the American Economic Review to the Wall Street Journal. In June 1999, Weidenbaum was elected chairman of the U.S. Congressional Trade Deficit Review Commission.