Contributors (2006- )
Elizabeth Bailie
Elizabeth Bailie has lived all her adult life as a lay Catholic contemplative, living in proximity to St. Joseph's Trappist Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, participating daily in the monastery's liturgical life. She is a photographer and poet who has just begun to publish her work. She has written for The Contemplative Review and will have a poem in the next issue of the scholarly journal, Contagion.
T. S. Beckett
"T. S. Beckett" is a penname to separate the author's literary from his professional life. Beckett's first novel, Shall Die by the Sword, was published in November 2005 by Doubleedge Press. It is a 14th-century adventure/love story. He has published poetry in various publications. Beckett is a physician with an active practice. He is married with two children and lives in Virginia.
Matthew Browning
Matthew Browning lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and works for Young Life. He graduated from the University of Iowa with BAs in English and Communication Studies with a minor in Religious Studies. He has published poems in Poetry Motel and NOTA.
Jess Castle
Jess Castle is a graduate of St. John's College. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he works in education policy.
Bob Cheeks
Bob Cheeks is a freelance writer whose interests lie in theology/philosophy and the theme of "reason and revelation." His writing has appeared in The American Enterprise, Human Events, The Acton Institute's Religion and Liberty, The Washington Times, The Pittsuburgh Tribune Review, Southern Partisan, and other periodicals. He is the book review editor at IntellectualConservative.com.
John J. Desjarlais
John Desjarlais writes short fiction, poetry, historical novels and created the Reed Stubblefield mystery series. He teaches creative writing, genre literature (including Science Fiction, Detective Fiction, and The Bible as Literature), and journalism at Kishwaukee College in northern Illinois. He tends a blog called Johnny Dangerous.
Stephen L. Gardner
Stephen Gardner is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Tulsa and the author of Myths of Freedom: Equality, Modern Thought, and Philosophical Radicalism (1998). He is a member of the Colloquium On Violence & Religion.
Maxwell Goss
Maxwell Goss is the editor of Right Reason. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Micah Hayes
Micah Hayes is a composer, teacher and writer who currently lives in New York City with his cousin, her husband and possibly some mice.
Max Heine
Max Heine lives in Northport, Alabama, where he is editorial director of Overdrive, Truckers News, and eTrucker.com. His literary work has been published in Image, Mars Hill Review, Christianity & Literature, StorySouth, and Windhover.
Mike Hickerson
Micheal Hickerson is the editor of the online journal, This Land.
James Fletcher Jordan
James Fletcher Jordan received a BA in Communication Arts from Concordia University. He is currently working on his second novel. His first novel, The Blue Note, partly based on a screenplay he had optioned, was published in 2000. He lives with his wife and two young children in Montreal.
Bill Kauffman
Bill Kauffman, novelist and man of letters, is a contributing editor of the magazines Chronicles and Liberty. He has written frequently for The American Conservative, The American Enterprise, and Counterpunch. His books include America First!: Its History, Politics and Culture (1995) and Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette. His latest book is Look Homeward, America (2006).
Sam Kean
Sam Kean is a young writer in Washington, D.C. currently at work on an Arabian-Nights style collection of parables, prose poems and fairy tales, as well as a political satire. He has previously written for Bewildering Stories, Eclectica, and Science, among other publications. In the meantime, he maintains a collection of maxims, clerihews and pithy sayings at appointmentinsamarra.blogspot.com.
Daniel Larison
Daniel Larison is a Ph.D. student in Byzantine History at the University of Chicago. He hosts the blog, Eunomia, and writes at Polemics and Enchiridion Militis. He has also written for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
William Luse
William Luse is an adjunct professor of English at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida, and host of the Catholic website Apologia.
Kenneth B. McIntyre
Kenneth B. McIntyre is an assistant professor of government at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He holds an AB from Princeton University, an MSc (Econ) from the University of Wales, Swansea, and an MA and PhD from Tulane University. He has written The Limits of Political Theory: Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association, and has also written articles for British Idealism Studies and Touchstone Magazine.
Gavin C. Miller
Gavin C. Miller is a eld botanist with experience in ecological restoration and native plant propagation. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Patrick O'Hannigan
Patrick O'Hannigan is a technical writer in California. His commentary has appeared in New Oxford Review, The American Spectator Online, New Times (San Luis Obispo), and elsewhere. He cultivates pesticide-free thought on politics, religion, and other untamed subjects at The Paragraph Farmer.
James V. Schall, S. J.
Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., is a professor of government at Georgetown University. He is a columnist for Crisis magazine and the author of numerous books and articles, the latest of which include Roman Catholic Political Philosophy (Lexington, 2004), The Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing. (ISI, 2001), Reason, Revelation, and Human Affairs: Selected Writings of James V. Schall (Lexington, 2001), and Schall on Chesterton: Timely Essays on Timeless Paradoxes. (Catholic University, 2000).
Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton is a philosopher, essayist, foxhunter, farmer, publisher, composer, and man of letters. He is also Britain's leading conservative intellectual, and The Meaning of Conservatism, which he wrote in 1980, is arguably the most important statement of the traditionalist conservative outlook since Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind (1953). One sign of the book's success is the hostility it provoked on the left; the journal Radical Philosophy, for instance, described it as "clearly too ghastly to be taken seriously." Roger's recent books include, among many others, The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat (2002), News from Somewhere: On Settling (2005), and the autobiographical Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (2005). He and his wife Sophie recently bought a house in Virginia, and divide their time between rural America and rural England.
Paul Seaton
Paul Seaton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore. He is currently working on translating the works of Pierre Manent translation for ISI Books.
Amy Welborn
Amy Welborn is the mother of five children, has an MA in church history from Vanderbilt, and is a full-time writer for the Catholic press. The author of many books, her articles have appeared in such publications as Commonweal, Liguorian, First Things, and Writer's Digest. She writes regular columns for The Florida Catholic, Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service. Amy holds a well-attended court at her blog, Open Book.