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Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Faculty Director of the Mercatus Center. He received his Ph.d. in economics from Harvard University in 1987. His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better was a New York Times best-seller. He was named in an Economist poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade and Bloomberg BusinessWeek dubbed him "America's Hottest Economist." Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers" of 2011. He co-writes a blog at www.marginalrevolution.com, hosts a podcast Conversations with Tyler, and is co-founder of an on-line economics education project, MRU.org. He is also director of the philanthropic project Emergent Ventures.

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

Abigail Shrier is a journalist and author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, named a “best book” by The Economist and The Times of London. She is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a recipient of the Barbara Olson Award for Excellence and Independence in Journalism and a graduate of Yale Law School.

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the author of two books, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women and Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy. She is a regular on cable news channels and podcasts across the political spectrum and a columnist for The Free Press and Compact Magazine.

Charles Lane was previously an editor and columnist for The Washington Post, where he was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. The author of three books, he has also been a foreign correspondent and editor of the New Republic; his action against a notorious journalistic fraud at that magazine became the subject of the acclaimed 2003 film, Shattered Glass.

Coleman Hughes is an author, podcaster and opinion columnist who specializes in issues related to race, public policy and applied ethics. He has appeared on prominent TV shows and podcasts including The View, Real Time with Bill Maher, the Joe Rogan Experience, and Making Sense with Sam Harris. In 2024, Hughes released his first book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.

Eli Lake is the host of Breaking History, a new history podcast from The Free Press. A veteran journalist with expertise in foreign affairs and national security, Eli has reported for Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, and Newsweek. With Breaking History, he brings his sharp analysis and storytelling skills to uncover the connections between today’s events and pivotal moments in the past.

Jed Rubenfeld is a professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School, a free speech lawyer, and host of the Straight Down the Middle podcast. He is the author of five books, including the million-copy bestselling novel The Interpretation of Murder, and his work has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives with his wife, Amy Chua, in New York City, and is the proud father of two exceptional daughters, Sophia and Lulu.

Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer at The Free Press and author of five novels, including the Edgar-nominated No One Will Miss Her. Prior to joining The Free Press, she was a reporter at MTV News and a columnist at UnHerd, where she wrote about American culture and politics. Her work has also appeared in Vulture, Playboy, The Boston Globe, and Reason, among others.

Larissa Phillips lives on a farm in upstate New York. Follow her on X @LarissaPhillip and learn more about her work by following the Honey Hollow Farm Substack.

Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst and author of The Revolt of the Public. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Mercatus Center; his essays have appeared in Discourse, City Journal, and UnHerd, among other publications.

Matthew Continetti is the director of domestic policy studies and the inaugural Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a columnist and podcaster for Commentary magazine, a contributing editor to National Review, and the founding editor of The Washington Free Beacon. His most recent book is The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism (Basic Books, 2022). His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Time magazine. He graduated from Columbia University with a degree in history in 2003.

Matti Friedman is a Jerusalem-based columnist for The Free Press. He’s the author of four nonfiction books, of which the most recent is Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.

Nellie Bowles is a reporter for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.

Sir Niall Ferguson, MA, DPhil, FRSE, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He is the author of 16 books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award. He is a columnist with The Free Press. In addition, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle, a New York-based advisory firm, a co-founder of the Latin American fintech company Ualá, and a co-founding trustee of the new University of Austin.

Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the co-founder of the Substack The Liberal Patriot.

Suzy Weiss is a reporter and producer for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.