Arthur C. Brooks is the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a visiting scholar at AEI, where he researches culture, philanthropy, and social entrepreneurship. He is the author of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism (Basic Books, 2006), which examines American charitable giving, and he has just finished Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It, which was released in April from Basic Books.

Jonathan Haidt is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he studies the emotional basis of morality and political ideology. He was awarded the Templeton Prize in Positive Psychology in 2001 and the Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 2004. He was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Princeton University Center for Human Values in 2006–2007. Mr. Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Basic Books, 2006).  He is currently writing The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon).

Steven F. Hayward is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in environmental studies at AEI and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. He is also an adjunct fellow at the John Ashbrook Center and a former Bradley Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Hayward studies the environment, law, political economy, and the presidency. He is author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, published jointly by the AEI Press and the Pacific Research Institute. Mr. Hayward contributes to AEI’s Environmental Policy Outlook series and has authored numerous books, including Greatness (Crown, 2005), The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964–1980 (Crown, 2001), and Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity (Crown, 1998). He is the coauthor of Air Quality in America: A Dose of Reality on Air Pollution Levels, Trends, and Health Risks (AEI Press, 2008). Mr. Hayward has also published articles in National Review, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reason, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and the Chicago Tribune.

Sally Satel, M.D., is a resident scholar at AEI and the staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Dr. Satel was an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University from 1988 to 1993. From 1993 to 1994, she was a policy fellow with the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. She has written widely in academic journals on topics in psychiatry and medicine and has published articles on cultural aspects of medicine and science in numerous magazines and journals. Dr. Satel is author of Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (AEI Press, 1999), PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001), One Nation under Therapy (with Christina Hoff Sommers; St. Martin’s Press, 2005), and The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing the Treatment Gap (with Jonathan Klick; AEI Press, 2006).

Will Wilkinson is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and managing editor of Cato Unbound, the institute’s online magazine of big ideas. He writes on a wide array of issues, including the moral dimensions of Social Security reform, the policy implications of happiness research, economic inequality and mobility, and the politics of behavioral economics. Wilkinson is a regular commentator on American Public Media’s widely syndicated radio program Marketplace, and he appears weekly in an online show, Free Will, on Bloggingheads.tv. His writing has appeared in The Economist, Reason, Policy, Prospect, Slate, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Australian Financial Review, and other publications.

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