Christine Emba is an Opinion columnist and editor at the Washington Post, where she focuses on ideas and society. Her book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, on the failures and potential of sexual ethics in a post- #MeToo world, was released by Penguin Random House in 2022. She is also a contributing editor at Comment Magazine and an Editor-at-Large of Wisdom of Crowds, which includes a newsletter and a podcast. Before coming to the Post in 2015, Christine was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at the New Criterion and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, focusing on technology and innovation.  She graduated from Princeton University and lives in Washington DC.

Dhananjay Jagannathan specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, the history of ethics and political philosophy, and value theory. His recent research has focused on two strands of Aristotle's thought: the intertwining of ethics and politics; and ethical knowledge and practical wisdom. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on the latter entitled Aristotle's Practical Epistemology. Other research interests include neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, political liberalism and its limits, and tragedy as a literary and a moral concept.

Adam Keiper is executive editor at The Bulwark. He is also contributing editor to National Affairs, American Purpose, and Current. For more than a decade, he was the editor of The New Atlantis, a quarterly journal about science, technology, and society that he co-founded in 2003; he remains a senior editor at The New Atlantis. He was the editor of the Weekly Standard’s Books & Arts section from mid-2017 until the magazine’s closure in December 2018. He has worked closely with hundreds of writers, including bestselling authors and winners of the Nobel, Pulitzer, and Templeton Prizes and the Newbery Medal, on projects ranging from short articles to books. His own research, writing, and public speaking is usually at the intersection of science and politics—touching on such subjects as space exploration, nanotechnology, and brain implants. He has a B.A. in political science from American University.

Ari Schulman is editor of The New Atlantis, as well as editor of TheNewAtlantis.com and of the New Atlantis Books series. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Hedgehog Review, Commentary, First Things, and Slate. He has previously been a research assistant in the Opinion department at the New York Times, an ontological engineer at Cycorp, and has degrees in computer science and English from the University of Texas at Austin. He tweets at @AriSchulman, and can be reached at aschulman@thenewatlantis.com.

Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She serves as Director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS), a university-wide research institute based in Notre Dame Research. The NDIAS promotes issue-engaged, inclusive, and interdisciplinary study of questions that affect our ability to lead valuable, meaningful lives. Sullivan is currently the Principal Investigator for the Mellon Foundation’s Philosophy as a Way of Life grant (2018-2021). Sullivan teaches courses at all levels and founded Notre Dame’s God and the Good Life Program. GGL introduces undergraduates to big philosophical questions concerning happiness, morality and meaning… and key methods for wrestling with them. Sullivan occasionally teaches gateway seminars like The Examined Life, and specialized graduate seminars on time, modality, philosophical logic, rationality and value. In 2021, Sullivan was honored with one of Notre Dame’s Joyce Awards for Teaching. Sullivan has degrees from the University of Virginia (BA: Philosophy and Politics, Highest Distinction), Oxford (B.Phil: Philosophy), and Rutgers (PhD: Philosophy).

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Michael Wear is the Founder, President and CEO of The Center for Christianity and Public Life, a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution based in the nation's capitol with the mission to contend for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. For well over a decade, he has served as a trusted resource and advisor for a range of civic leaders on matters of faith and public life, including as a White House and presidential campaign staffer. Michael is a leading voice on building a healthy civic pluralism in twenty-first century America. He has argued that the kind of people we are has much to do with the kind of politics we will have. Michael previously led Public Square Strategies, a consulting firm he founded that helps religious organizations, political organizations, businesses and others effectively navigate the rapidly changing American religious and political landscape. Michael's next book, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, will be released in January 2024. Michael’s first book, Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America, offers reflections, analysis and ideas about the role of faith in the Obama years and what it means for today. He has co-authored, or contributed to, several other books, including Compassion and Conviction: The AND Campaign's Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement, with Justin Giboney and Chris Butler. He also writes for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Catapult Magazine, Christianity Today and other publications on faith, politics and culture. Michael holds an honorary position at the University of Birmingham’s Cadbury Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. Michael and his wife, Melissa, are both proud natives of Buffalo, New York. They now reside in Maryland, where they are raising their beloved daughters, Saoirse and Ilaria.

Peter Wehner is an in-residence Senior Fellow, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He has written for numerous other publications—including Time, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Weekly Standard, National Review, Commentary, National Affairs, and Christianity Today. He has also appeared frequently as a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, CBS, PBS, and C-SPAN television.

Wehner served in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations, including as Deputy Director of Speechwriting and later Director of the Office of Strategic Initiatives for President George W. Bush.

Wehner is author of City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era (co-authored with Michael J. Gerson) and Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism (co-authored with Arthur C. Brooks). His most recent book is The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump.

Tara Isabella Burton is the author of Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians and Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, as well as of the novels Social Creature and The World Cannot Give. Her third novel, Here in Avalon, will be published in January 2024. She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more, and has a doctorate in theology from Oxford.

Caitrin Keiper is editor-at-large of Plough and a senior editor of The New Atlantis. She was previously editor of Philanthropy and a Novak Journalism Fellow. Her articles have been published in the Weekly Standard, the American Interest, Commentary, First Things, books by Harper Collins and Templeton Press, and elsewhere. Her award-winning essay "Do Elephants Have Souls ?" is now available on Audm.

Samuel Matlack is managing editor of The New Atlantis, where he writes about our technological condition and our place in the natural world.

Leah Libresco Sargeant is a contributing editor for Plough. She is also a freelance writer, covering religion, statistics, and as much theater as she can get tickets for. Her writing has appeared in First Things, America, The American Conservative, Commonweal, The American Interest and others. She is the author of Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers that Even I Can Offer, which tells the story of how she learned to pray. She has spoken on CNN, at Theology on Taps in multiple countries, and at Chicago Ideas Week. In her day jobs, she has been a public policy researcher, a news writer for FiveThirtyEight, the HR lead for a remittance company, and a curriculum developer for the Center for Applied Rationality. She also worked in lay ministry for students at Princeton. She lives in Virginia with her husband, Alexi Sargeant.