Carissa Veliz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, as well as a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data.

Ryan Ruby is a writer living in Berlin. He is the author of The Zero and The One, a novel.

Michael Walzer is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the author most recently of The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective.

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, is a resident scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

A. E. Stallings is an American poet and translator living in Athens.

David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University. He is the author most recently of Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in The Age of Revolution.

Adam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic and the author, among other books, of The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us.

Emily Ogden is a professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of On Not Knowing: How To Love and Other Essays.

Stephen Darwall is a professor of philosophy at Yale University. His most recent book is Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant.

Kian Tajbakhsh is an Iranian-American scholar, social scientist, and urban planner.

Ange Mlinko teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her most recent collection of poems is Venice.

Wendy Gan is a fellow at Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institue and a professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong.

Jennie Lightweis-Goff is a professor of English at the University of Mississippi and is the author of Captive Cities: Urban Slavery in Four Movements.

John Summers is a writer, historian, and the editor of Lingua Franca Media. Inc.

Helen Vendler is the A Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University.

Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties.

Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties.