Ted V. McAllister is the Edward L. Gaylord Chair and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. The author of Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order, McAllister writes and lectures frequently on a wide range of themes from Alexis de Tocqueville and Eric Voegelin to the debate about the nature of American identity. He is the coeditor, with Wilfred McClay, of Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America.

Bruce P. Frohnen is Ella and Ernest Fisher Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University's Pettit College of Law. Among his books are Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law (with George W. Carey), The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism, and, as editor, The American Republic: Primary Sources.