The Honorable Elliott Abrams is the chairman of Tikvah and of the Vandenberg Coalition, as well as senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as a foreign policy adviser for every Republican administration since President Reagan's, and is the author of several books, most recently If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century.

Eric Cohen is the CEO of Tikvah, co-chair of the Jewish Leadership Conference, and publisher of Mosaic. He is the author of In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology.

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Dr. Jonathan Haidt is a professor of social psychology at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the author of several books, including The Coddling of the American Mind and The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.

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The Honorable Nikki Haley served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 or 2019. Previously, she served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, and is currently the Walter P. Stern Chair at the Hudson Institute.

William Inboden is professor and director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, and Peterson Senior Fellow with the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He previously served as William Powers, Jr. Chair and executive director of the Clements Center for National Security, associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and distinguished scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, all at the University of Texas-Austin. He also served as senior director for strategic planning on the National Security Council at the White House. Inboden's newest book is The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink (2022), an award-winning narrative overview of the Reagan administration's Cold War strategy and foreign and defense policies. He is also the author of Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment (2008). Inboden is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and his commentary has appeared in numerous outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Foreign Policy, Politico, National Review, NPR, CNN, and the BBC.

Shabbos Kestenbaum is a recent graduate of Harvard University and the lead plaintiff in a suit against the school alleging severe and pervasive anti-Semitism on campus. He is a regular contributor in international media outlets, including Fox, CNN, and the BBC, and recently addressed the 2024 Republican National Convention. He has testified before Congress and speaks internationally about campus anti-Semitism, higher education reform, and the bipartisan U.S.-Israel relationship. Shabbos has been involved with Tikvah since high school and is an alumnus of numerous Tikvah programs and fellowships.

Dr. Yuval Levin holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including most recently American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again. He is also the founder and editor of National Affairs and previously served as executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

Kenneth Marcus is founder and chairman of The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University, and author of The Definition of Anti-Semitism (2015) and Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America (2010). During his public service career, Marcus served as assistant U.S. secretary of education for civil rights, staff director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and general deputy assistant U.S. secretary of housing and urban development for fair housing and equal opportunity. He also serves by gubernatorial appointment as a member of the board of governors of George Mason University and formerly served as a distinguished senior fellow at that university's law school. He previously held the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Chair in Equality and Justice in America at the City University of New York's Bernard M. Baruch College School of Public Affairs and served as visiting research professor of political science at Yeshiva University.

Michael Oren is an American-born Israeli historian, soldier, and bestselling author who served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013 and later as a Member of the Knesset and Deputy Minister of Diplomacy in the Prime Minister’s Office. Throughout his illustrious career as a Middle East scholar, Oren has been a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Wilson Center and a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown. His books include Six Days of War, Power, Faith, Fantasy: America in the Middle East from 1776 to the Present, and Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, and his latest writing can be found on his Substack, Clarity.

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster, and author who has championed traditional values in the culture war for more than three decades. She writes a weekly column for the Times of London and the Jewish News Syndicate, broadcasts on radio and TV, and gives public presentations across the English-speaking world. Her new book, The Builder's Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West—And Why Only They Can Save It, will be published by Wicked Son in January 2025. Her first novel, The Legacy—which deals with conflicted Jewish identity, anti-Semitism, and the power of history—was published in 2018 along with her personal and political memoir, Guardian Angel. Her previous books include Londonistan (2006) and The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power (2010).

The Honorable Ben Sasse was president of the University of Florida from 2023 to 2024. Previously, he served as U.S. senator from Nebraska from 2015 to 2023. He is the author of Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal and The Vanishing American Adult.

Dan Senor is the host of the “Call Me Back” podcast and co-author of The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World. He is a co-founder and member of the board of directors of the Foreign Policy Initiative, and previously served as an advisor to Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and the administration of George W. Bush.

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Dr. Jonathan Silver is the chief programming officer at Tikvah, Tikvah’s Warren R. Stern senior fellow of Jewish Civilization, the editor of Mosaic, and the host of the Tikvah Podcast.

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Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveitchik is a senior fellow at Tikvah, director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University, and senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel. He is the author of numerous articles in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and Mosaic, as well as Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship and Sacred Time.

Professor Ruth Wisse is a senior fellow and contributor at Tikvah and Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard. She writes regularly at Mosaic, teaches throughout America and Israel, and hosts the Stories Jews Tell podcast. Her books on literary subjects include A Little Love in Big Manhattan (1988), The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Literature and Culture (2003), an edition of Jacob Glatstein's two-volume fictional memoir The Glatstein Chronicles (2010), and No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013), a volume in the Tikvah-sponsored Library of Jewish Ideas with Princeton University Press. Her original translation of Chaim Grade's My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner was published by Koren's Maggid Press in 2022. She is also the author of two political studies, If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992) and Jews and Power (2007). Her memoir, Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, was published in 2021.