John Podhoretz John Podhoretz is the editor of Commentary Magazine, and writes its opening column. He was one of the founders of the Weekly Standard, and still serves as the magazine's movie critic. A Fox News Channel contributor, he founded Insight magazine as well. The author of four books, including the bestselling Bush Country, Podhoretz was the lead political columnist for the New York Post for ten years, and also served as the paper's editorial page editor and arts editor. He won the JC Penney-Missouri Journalism Award in 1990. He was a speechwriter to President Reagan, and has worked at Time, the Washington Times, and U.S. News and World Report. He was also a five-time Jeopardy! Champion.

Andrew Roberts Andrew Roberts is an award-winning and bestselling British biographer and historian. His biography of Neville Chamberlain's and Winston Churchill's foreign secretary, the Earl of Halifax, entitled The Holy Fox was published in 1991, to be followed by the controversial, but no less well-received Eminent Churchillians in 1994. As well as appearing regularly on British television and radio, Roberts writes for The Sunday Telegraph and reviews history books and biography for that newspaper as well as The Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph. In 1999 he published Salisbury: Victorian Titan, the authorized biography of the Victorian prime minister the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction. In September 2001 Napoleon and Wellington, an investigation into the relationship between the two great generals, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. January 2003 saw the publication of Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership. In 2005 Roberts published Waterloo: The Battle for Modern Europe. The publication of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 brought him an invitation to the White House in February 2007, where he delivered the prestigious White House Lecture. Masters and Commanders, which was published in 2008, won the Emery Reves Award of the International Churchill Society and was shortlisted for The Duke of Westminster's Gold Medal for Military History and The British Army Military Book Award, both of Britain's two top military history prizes. The Storm of War was published in August 2009.

Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin is Commentary's Contributing Editor, and the indefatigable lead blogger at on the magazine's website. She is a graduate of Berkeley and of Boalt Hall School of Law. She practiced labor law for twenty years in California, primarily representing Hollywood studios, before moving to the nation's capital. Jennifer's reporting and analysis has appeared in The Weekly Standard, National Review, American Spectator, New York Observer, ABCNews.com, New York Post, Jerusalem Post and a variety of other print and online publications. She has appeared on MSNBC and CSPAN's Morning Journal.

Norman Podhoretz Norman Podhoretz is the bestselling author of Why Are Jews Liberals?, World War IV, Ex-Friends, My Love Affair with America, and many other books. One of the leading figures of neoconservatism, he was editor of Commentary for 35 years before his retirement in 1995, and has been writing for the magazine for 57 years. In 2004, in recognition of this editorial achievement, as well as of his own writings, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the US government can bestow on a civilian. He holds honorary doctorates from Hamilton College, Yeshiva University, Boston University, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Adelphi University, and a number of other awards, including the 2007 Guardian of Zion award from Bar-Illan University.

Midge Decter Midge Decter, who has been called "the First Lady of American conservatism," is the author of five books, including Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait and An Old Wife's Tale. She is a member of the board of the Heritage Foundation, and began and ran the Committee for the Free World for more than a decade until the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism suggested to her that the committee's work had been completed. One of the first people to speak out in opposition to the feminist movement, she blazed a career path that has inspired two generations of women. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2003.