Yonatan Green is an Israeli-American attorney, most recently a Fellow with the Georgetown University Center for the Constitution in Washington, D.C. Born and raised in Israel to parents from the United States and the United Kingdom, Yonatan obtained a degree in Law and Communications from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before qualifying to practice law in Israel and in the State of New York. He has worked in private practice, at major tech firm Mobileye, and was co-founder and Executive Director of the Jerusalem-based Israel Law & Liberty Forum, inspired by the Federalist Society. His work in English and Hebrew has been published in a variety of academic, popular and media platforms, and has been cited by the Israeli Supreme Court.

Thibaud Gibelin was born on January 6, 1990, in Aix-en-Provence, France. After studying history and political science, he worked in Brussels at the European Parliament and then taught in private secondary schools and, since 2021, at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Budapest, Hungary. He is currently completing his doctorate in political science at the Université Paris Est-Créteil and in contemporary history at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. His research focuses on the reassertion of politics in Europe, with particular reference to recent developments in Hungary.

“The most complete and sophisticated of all the intellectuals”
- Stanley Payne, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Author: One of Spain’s most distinguished philosophers, Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora y Mon was born in Barcelona on April 30, 1924. He graduated in law and philosophy from the University of Madrid with the highest distinction in both subjects and then entered the Spanish diplomatic corps, serving in West Germany and Greece and as head of the Diplomatic School of Spain. In 1950, he married Isabel Varela, with whom he had four children. In 1953, Fernández de la Mora y Mon began a lengthy collaboration with the conservative monarchist daily ABC. From 1970 to 1974, he served as Spain’s Minister of Public Works and later held a seat in parliament. He became a member of Spain’s Royal Academy of Political and Moral Sciences in 1972. In 1983, he founded the bimonthly journal Razón Española, a publication devoted to the defense of a humanistic world view. He died at home on February 10, 2002.

Translator: Tom Burns (b. 1948) is a well-known journalist and essayist brought up between Britain and Spain. He graduated in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was Deputy President and Communications Director for the Recoletos Comunicación Group. Since 1970, he has developed a distinguished career in journalism, including work in Madrid as foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek. Currently, he is a director at Eurocofín, a leading corporate communications and financial consultancy company, as well as a contributor to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. In 2001, Burns was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his work promoting Spanish-British relations. He is the author of numerous books on Spanish state and society.

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.