Kenneth Quandt holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California Berkeley. He writes commentaries on the Greek text of Plato’s Dialogues and translates books by contemporary European thinkers.

Confidence Mbang is a legal practitioner based in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. He is legal head of the firm Confidence Mbang Legal (CML) and founder of Morelaw, a legal services advisory in multiple aspects of law. A constitutional law and human rights enthusiast, Mr. Mbang is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) and an appointee to the Special Envoy for West Africa with the International Human Rights Protection Service in the United States. Mr. Mbang has represented young people of the Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency at the Niger Delta Youth Parliament (NDYP). He is an awardee of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), an Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) Ranger, and a member of the Citizens’ Liberties Committee (CLC) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

Brian Kaller worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor in the United States before moving to rural Ireland to raise his daughter. There he grew food and raised chickens on a homestead and tried his hand at blacksmithing, basketry, wall-building, knifemaking, woodworking, winemaking, beekeeping, and old methods of food preservation, among other crafts. For 17 years he has written a weekly column on sustainable living for Irish newspapers, which has a strong following and has been reprinted on environmentalist websites, including www.resilience.org. Mr. Kaller has written about traditional life for Mother Earth News, Grit, and The Dallas Morning News. He has also written for The American Conservative, First Things, and Quillette. He has appeared on Ireland’s national television station, RTE, to comment on American politics and has given frequent talks at churches and universities throughout the United States. Mr. Kaller’s experiments with traditional food preservation have been featured on the popular BBC television series QI.

Homam Al Safadi is a 2024 graduate in Information Systems and Technology from the G. F. Morozov Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies, where he earned his
degree with honors. He is a researcher and writer in scientific philosophy, with a focus on interdisciplinary research. His work has been published by various academic journals. In addition to his research, he also designed and coded the software program “Recognition and Classification Program of Human and Gorilla Skeletal Structures,” which is officially registered with the Russian government.

Dr. John A. Gentry teaches at the School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University. For twelve years, he was an intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he mainly worked on economic issues associated with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. For two of those years, he was senior analyst on the staff of the National Intelligence Officer for Warning. Dr. Gentry is a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer, with most assignments in special operations and intelligence arenas. Previously, he taught at Georgetown University, Columbia University, and the National Intelligence University. He writes regularly on intelligence and security issues. He is the author of Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences (2023) and about 40 articles and book chapters on intelligence topics. He has an economics background and received his Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University. Follow him at @gentry_johna.

Gregory Novak received his Ph.D. (2004) from Northern Illinois University, where he studied intellectual history. He has taught religion, history, and philosophy at Olney Friends School in Ohio and Canterbury School in Indiana. He is the author of three novels under his pseudonym, Jay Jordan Hawke. These include: Pukawiss the Outcast (a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2014), A Scout is Brave (Rainbow Award winner in 2015) and Onwaachige the Dreamer. This is his first work of nonfiction.

Nicholas H. Wolfinger is Professor of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, both in sociology. He is the author of Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (2005), Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (edited with Lori Kowaleski-Jones, 2005), Do Babies Matter: Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, 2013), Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Children, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (with W. Bradford Wilcox, 2016), and Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 (with Matthew McKeever, 2024). Wolfinger is the author of about 40 articles or chapters, as well as short pieces in The Atlantic, National Review, Huffington Post, and other outlets. Between 2016 and 2021, his university investigated him three times.

Major Bruce H. “Doc” Norton, USMC (Ret) is a decorated Vietnam War veteran, author, and former oral historian for the Marine Corps. Dr. Harry Kantrovich is a retired Chief of Naval Operations Command Master Chief, playwright, and award-winning director.

George Ewane Ngide is Associate Professor of English/British literature at the University of Yaoundé I, in Cameroon, where he specializes in Romantic literature, postcolonial and multicultural studies, and war poetry. He has published extensively on Robert Owen’s poetry and philosophy, as well as on other topics related to Romantic literature, media, and communication. A Cameroonian journalist, academic, and political figure, he is currently Technical Adviser and Head of the Division for Information and Communication at the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon. He is also a veteran broadcaster who worked for CRTV Radio and Television for nearly two decades, reporting on the activities of President Paul Biya. In 2019, Dr. Ngide was appointed Spokesman for the Major National Dialogue, a forum aimed at resolving the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon.

Raised in the Catholic faith by his devout mother, Georges Mallet was encouraged to explore his beliefs freely and respect diverse opinions. As a university researcher, he pioneered equipment to study life’s fundamental molecules and atomic nuclei structures. Author and co-author of numerous scientific articles and presentations, his contribution to the discovery of piezoelectricity in amino acids four decades ago continues to offer significant insights in medical applications. As a teacher, he inspired students with leading scientists’ contributions to electronics, theoretical chemistry, the physics of matter, and radioactivity. Award France’s prestigious Chevalier des Palmes Académiques and now professor emeritus, he long served as the Nuclear Biological and Chemical advisor for the Alpes-Maritimes department.