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Samuel J. Abrams

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Beth Akers

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Joseph Antos

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Leon Aron

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Kirsten Axelsen

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John P. Bailey

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Claude Barfield

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Michael Barone

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Robert J. Barro

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Michael Beckley

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Eric J. Belasco

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Ryan C. Berg

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Andrew G. Biggs

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Mason M. Bishop

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Director, Asian Studies

Dan Blumenthal

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Karlyn Bowman

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Hal Brands

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Elisabeth Braw

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Alex Brill

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Arthur C. Brooks

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Richard Burkhauser

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Resident Fellow; Milton Friedman Chair

James C. Capretta

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Timothy P. Carney

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Amitabh Chandra

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Lynne V. Cheney

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James W. Coleman

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Matthew Continetti

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Zack Cooper

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Jay Cost

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Director, Survey Center on American Life

Daniel A. Cox

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Juan José Daboub

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Jason D. Delisle

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Sadanand Dhume

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President, American Enterprise Institute; Morgridge Scholar

Robert Doar

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Giselle Donnelly

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Ross Douthat

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Colin Dueck

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Mackenzie Eaglen

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Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy

Nicholas Eberstadt

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Max Eden

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Jeffrey Eisenach

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Emily Estelle

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Andrew Ferguson

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John G. Ferrari

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John C. Fortier

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Joseph B. Fuller

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Scott Ganz

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R. Richard Geddes

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Robert P. George

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Joseph W. Glauber

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Fellow and Asness Chair in Applied Liberty

Jonah Goldberg

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Barry K. Goodwin

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Scott Gottlieb

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Phil Gramm

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William C. Greenwalt

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Jim Harper

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Frederick M. Hess

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R. Glenn Hubbard

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Benedic N. Ippolito

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Mark Jamison

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Director, Open Source Policy Center

Matt Jensen

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Frederick W. Kagan

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Steven B. Kamin

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Leon R. Kass

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Klon Kitchen

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Kevin R. Kosar

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Paul H. Kupiec

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Desmond Lachman

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Director, Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies
Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy
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Yuval Levin

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Phillip Lohaus

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Daniel Lyons

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Nat Malkus

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Oriana Skylar Mastro

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John Maurer

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Michael Mazza

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Rachel M. McCleary

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Elaine McCusker

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Bruce D. Meyer

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Thomas P. Miller

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M. Anthony Mills

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F. A. Hayek Emeritus Chair in Cultural Studies

Charles Murray

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Neil Narang

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State Farm James Q. Wilson Scholar; Senior Adviser, AEI Housing Center

Stephen D. Oliner

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Ed Olsen

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Norman J. Ornstein

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Brent Orrell

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Ajit Pai

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Mark J. Perry

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Research Fellow and Director of Research, AEI Housing Center

Tobias Peter

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Editor, AEIdeas; DeWitt Wallace Fellow

James Pethokoukis

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Resident Fellow; Director, AEI Housing Center

Edward J. Pinto

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Danielle Pletka

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Kenneth M. Pollack

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Kyle Pomerleau

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Ramesh Ponnuru

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Angela Rachidi

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Vincent R. Reinhart

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Dalibor Rohac

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Ian Rowe

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Michael Rubin

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Paul Ryan

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Sally Satel

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Eric Sayers

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Naomi Schaefer Riley

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Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies

Kori Schake

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Diana Schaub

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Anna Scherbina

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Gary J. Schmitt

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Derek Scissors

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Neena Shenai

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Sita Nataraj Slavov

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Vincent H. Smith

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Christina Hoff Sommers

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Katharine B. Stevens

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Chris Stirewalt

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Ivana Stradner

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Director, Economic Policy Studies
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Michael R. Strain

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Director, Domestic Policy Studies

Ryan Streeter

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Bret Swanson

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Shane Tews

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Marc A. Thiessen

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Sean Trende

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Tunku Varadarajan

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Stan Veuger

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Alan D. Viard

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Philip Wallach

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Peter J. Wallison

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Matt Weidinger

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Gregory S. Weiner

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Adam J. White

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W. Bradford Wilcox

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Director of Poverty Studies

Scott Winship

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Paul Wolfowitz

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Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow

Wang Xiyue

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John Yoo

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Karen E. Young

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Katherine Zimmerman

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Benjamin Zycher

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