Walter Berns is the John M. Olin university professor emeritus at Georgetown University and a resident scholar at AEI. He has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Chicago, and Cornell and Yale Universities. His government service includes membership on the National Council on the Humanities, the Council of Scholars in the Library of Congress, the Judicial Fellows Commission, and in 1983 he was the alternate United States representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. He has been a Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright Fellow. He is the author of many books and articles on American government and politics, including, most recently, Democracy and the Constitution (2006). In 2005, President George W. Bush awarded him the National Humanities Medal for his scholarship on the history of the Constitution.
Judge Robert H. Bork is a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute. He previously served as U.S. solicitor general (1973–77), acting attorney general (1973–74), and circuit judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1982–88), and was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the position of associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1987. Judge Bork was previously the Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law at Yale Law School and is currently a professor at the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Tad and Diane Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In addition to authoring numerous newspaper and law review articles, he is author of The Antitrust Paradox (second edition, 1993), Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline (1996), The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (1990), and, most recently, Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges (2003).
Lynne V. Cheney is a senior fellow at AEI, where she focuses on education policy and standards, giving particular attention to the need of America’s students for a quality education in U.S. history. Before joining AEI, she was chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution and, more recently, served on Texas Governor George W. Bush’s education team. A novelist and widely published author, Mrs. Cheney has written on education and culture for the New York Times, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She is the author of Telling the Truth (1995), and coauthor with her husband of Kings of the Hill (1996). Most recently, she has written four books for children and their families: America: A Patriotic Primer (2002); A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women (2003); When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots (2004); and A Time for Freedom: What Happened When in America (2005). Her fifth book for children and families, Our 50 States: An Amazing Adventure Across America, will be published in late October 2006.
George F. Will is an ABC News commentator and panelist on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Will has been a regular contributor to ABC News since the premiere of This Week with David Brinkley in 1981. In addition to his work for ABC News, he is the author of a syndicated column, which appears twice weekly in more than 475 newspapers nationwide. He became a contributing editor of Newsweek in 1976 and, one year later, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. From 1973 to 1976 he was the Washington editor of National Review. From 1970 to 1972 he was on the staff of Senator Gordon Allott (R–Colo.). He has published seven collections of columns, three books of political theory, and two books on baseball. He has also taught political philosophy at Michigan State University, the University of Toronto, and Harvard University.
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