de Carvalho (1947–2022) was a Brazilian philosopher, professor, journalist, and the best-selling author of some forty books. In 2009, Carvalho founded the Online Philosophy Course, in which he delivered hundreds of lectures containing original insights in epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophical method, political science, and modern philosophy. His books and lectures have attracted immense interest in Brazil and abroad. Carvalho lived in Virginia from 2005 until his death. His work continues to be studied closely in fulfillment of what Carvalho stated was his only goal: to educate and encourage people in the pursuit of truth and philosophy, which he defines as “the unity of knowledge in the unity of consciousness, and vice versa.”

Gaël-Georges Moullec is a specialist in Russian History and the history of the international communist movement. Having served as a staff officer at NATO Headquarters, he is currently lecturer at the University of Paris XIII and the Polytechnic University of Valenciennes, and Associate Researcher and Chair of Geopolitics at Rennes School of Business. He is the author of eight books including Moscou – 1917: Les rapports d’Albert Remes, consul du Royaume de Belgique and Trois instants de printemps, le renseignement diplomatique soviétique dans la France gaulliste.

Dr. Kenya Mitchell is an author, researcher, and instructor whose work focuses on achieving equity for individuals who live at the intersections of race, disability, and gender in medical and higher education contexts. During her career, Dr. Mitchell has received a number of awards, including being named a 2020 Digital Pedagogy Fellow for her research in the field of Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition. Dr. Mitchell holds a master’s degree in Language and Literacy from Harvard University’s School of Education and a Ph.D. in Writing Rhetoric and Composition from University of California Davis’s School of Education.

Tomáš Klvaňa is Visiting Professor at New York University Prague and a senior international consultant. He was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, served as the Press Spokesperson and Policy Adviser to the President of the Czech Republic, and was Special Coordinator for the Czech government’s missile defense program. Dr. Klvaňa co-founded the Aspen Institute Central Europe and served on its board. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where he received the Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, and an M.A. from Charles University in Prague. Dr. Klvaňa is married with two daughters and lives in Prague.

Elizabeth Weiss is a controversial and world-renowned anthropology professor, specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains. For much of her career she was based at San Jose State University, where she curated one of the largest collections of skeletal remains in the US. She is the author of numerous books and articles, and she played an essential role in bringing the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition "What Does it Mean to be Human?" to the San Francisco Bay Area. She's been featured in the New York Times, Science and USA Today, and has been interviewed on Fox News and Newsmax. She currently lives in New York City, where she holds a visiting fellowship with Heterodox Academy.

Alexander Mitjashin graduated and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from St. Petersburg State University. After teaching philosophy, he is now retired. His books include The World and Language: The Ontology for Natural Language, Knowledge and Capitalism, Liberalism and Skepticism, Physics and Metaphysics, and The Epistemology of Experience.

Eric Louw’s career spanned universities in both South Africa and Australia. Prior to that, he was a journalist at the Pretoria News and also ran an NGO engaged in development work in South Africa. Louw has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town and at the University of South Africa and has served on the editorial boards of four academic journals. His publications in the fields of political communication and South African politics include 12 books, over 60 journal articles and over 40 book chapters. Dr. Louw’s books include Decolonization and White Africans: The ‘Winds of Change,’ Resistance, and Beyond (Academica Press) as well as Roots of the Pax Americana, The Rise, Fall and Legacy of Apartheid, and New Voices Over the Air: The Transformation of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in a Changing South Africa.

Henry F. Fradella is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, where he also holds affiliate appointments as a professor of law and as a faculty member in the interdisciplinary program on law and behavioral science. He earned a B.A. in psychology from Clark University; a master’s in forensic science and a law degree from George Washington University; and Ph.D. in justice studies from Arizona State University. He researches substantive and procedural criminal law, the dynamics of legal decision-making, and the consequences of changes in legal processes. As part of interdisciplinary teams, his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice. He is the author or co-author of 15 books including Sex and Privacy in American Law (Academica); LGBTQ+ Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Routledge); Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System (University of California Press, named a “Best Book” of 2019 by the Vera Institute of Justice); Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Police Tactic (New York University Press, winner of the 2019 American Society of Criminology Division of Policing’s Outstanding Book Award); Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)Justice (Routledge); Mental Illness and Crime (Sage); Defenses of Excuse in American Law (Academica); a criminal law casebook (Oxford), and four textbooks (Oxford and Cengage). His more than 125 articles, book chapters, reviews, and scholarly commentaries have appeared in outlets such as the American Journal of Criminal Law; Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice; Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law; The Conversation; The Crime Report; Criminal Law Bulletin; Criminal Justice Policy Review; Criminology and Public Policy; Critical Criminology; Federal Courts Law Review; Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice; Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice; Journal of Homosexuality; Journal of Law and Sexuality; Law and Psychology Review; New Criminal Law Review; Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law; Police Quarterly; Policing: An International Journal; Western Criminology Review; Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice; and law reviews affiliated with Arizona State University; Benjamin Cardozo Law School; Chapman University; the City University of New York; Lewis & Clark University; the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Pepperdine University; Rutgers University; Seattle University; the University of Florida; and Willamette University. Dr. Fradella previously edited Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society and the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Criminal Law Bulletin since 2019.

Bruce D. Abramson is Executive Director of New Student and Graduate Admissions at New College of Florida. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, a J.D. from Georgetown University, and has served on the faculty of the University of Southern California and as a research adjunct at Carnegie Mellon University. He has spent decades as an independent troubleshooter, problem solver, economic analyst, and strategic consultant; published widely in the scholarly literature of computing, management, and law; and written over 250 columns on politics and public policy. His previous books have addressed technology policy, innovation law, Middle East politics, political philosophy, and the corruption of higher education.

John O’Sullivan CBE is President and founder of the Danube Institute in Budapest, Hungary; international editor of Quadrant Magazine in Sydney, Australia; associate editor of the Hungarian Review; a fellow of the National Review Institute; and editor at large of National Review. He is a co-founder and director of Twenty-First Century Initiatives as well as the International Reagan Thatcher Society. Mr. O’Sullivan served as a Special Adviser and speechwriter to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He was the founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, launched at the Congress of Prague in May 1996 by former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Lady Thatcher. It played a major role in bringing the countries of Central and Eastern Europe into NATO.