Speaker biographies

James Bowman received B.A. degrees from Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge in England, where he also did graduate study and received an M.A. in 1979. He was a teacher at Westminster School and Portsmouth Grammar School in England for nine years before returning to the U.S. as Washington correspondent of The Spectator of London in 1989. He has worked as a freelance journalist since that time, serving as American editor of the Times Literary Supplement of London from 1991 to 2002, as movie critic of The American Spectator since 1990 and as media critic of The New Criterion since 1993. He has also been a weekly movie reviewer for The New York Sun since the newspaper’s re-foundation in 2002. Among the other publications to which he has contributed are Harper’s, The National Interest, The Public Interest, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Evening Standard of London, Scotland on Sunday, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph of London, The American Enterprise, Reason, The Weekly Standard and National Review.

John O’Sullivan is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He is also editor-at-large of National Review where he served as editor-in-chief for nine years. He was editor of the distinguished foreign policy quarterly, the National Interest, from 2003 to 2005 and editor-in-chief of United Press International from 2000 to 2003. From 1998 to 2000 he was an editorial consultant to Hollinger International Inc. and a leading member of the team that created the National Post.  His previous posts have included special adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, associate editor of the London Times, assistant editor of the London Daily Telegraph, and editor of Policy Review. O’Sullivan was educated at London University and stood for Parliament as a Conservative in the 1970 general election for Gateshead West. He is the founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, an international bipartisan effort dedicated to reinvigorating and expanding the Atlantic community of democracies. O’Sullivan has published articles in Encounter, Commentary, Prospect, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Policy Review, the American Spectator, the Spectator (London), Quadrant, Hibernia and other journals.

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