Mario I. Juarez-Garcia is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. His current research includes the philosophical problems of anti-corruption efforts, the moral duties of public officials, and the role of failure in a good life. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2021.
David Schmidtz is Editor in Chief of Social Philosophy and Policy.
Ronald J. Pestritto is Graduate Dean and Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, where he teaches political philosophy, American political thought, and American politics, and holds the Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution. He serves as a Senior Fellow of the College’s Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. He has published seven books, including Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (2005), and American Progressivism (2008). He has also served as a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, and as an Academic Fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He has written widely on Progressivism and the administrative state for publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the Claremont Review of Books. He is Guest Editor of this issue of Social Philosophy and Policy.
Gary Lawson is the Philip S. Beck Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. He has authored or coauthored five books on topics in constitutional history, constitutional law, and jurisprudence; eight editions of a textbook on federal administrative law; a textbook on constitutional law; and more than eighty scholarly articles. He was an associate editor of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, and he twice clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia—in 1984–1985 on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and in 1986–1987 on the United States Supreme Court. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.
Tiffany Jones Miller is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas. She teaches a wide range of courses in the history of political philosophy, American political thought and politics, and twentieth-century socialism. She has written on various aspects of the American founding and the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Progressive movement in Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, American Political Thought, The Claremont Review of Books, and National Review, among other journals. She is presently writing a book on the origins, nature, and domestic policy impact of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Progressive Movement.
Joseph Postell is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hillsdale College. He is the author of Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to American Constitutionalism (2017), and the editor of Rediscovering Political Economy (2011) and Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era (2013). His articles have appeared in a variety of academic journals including American Political Thought, Constitutional Studies, Perspectives on Political Science, and the Review of Politics. His teaching and research focus on the relationship between American political thought and American political institutions, especially the administrative state, Congress, and political parties. He is currently completing a book on the weakening of political parties since the Progressive Era and the relationship of that weakness to congressional decline.
David E. Bernstein is Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Liberty and Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where he has been teaching since 1995. Professor Bernstein is an expert in constitutional law, constitutional history, and the law of expert testimony. He is the author of Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Attack on the Constitution and the Rule of Law (2015); Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform (2011); You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws (2003); and Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal (2001). He is the coauthor of A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (2013) and The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence (2003). Professor Bernstein’s work has also appeared in many leading law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and California Law Review.
Eric MacGilvray is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University, where he directs the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics major. He is the author of The Invention of Market Freedom (2011) and Reconstructing Public Reason (2004), and is currently completing a book entitled Liberal Freedom. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Social Philosophy and Policy, and a number of other journals.
Sandra J. Peart is Dean and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. Peart has written or edited a number of books, including her most recent book "The Essential John Stuart Mill" (2021) and two books she coauthored (with David M. Levy): Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School (2020) and Escape from Democracy: The Role of Experts and the Public in Economic Policy (2017). She is the author of numerous articles in the areas of constitutional political economy, leadership in experimental settings, ethics and economics, and the transition to modern economic thought, in journals such as History of Economic Ideas, Australian Review of Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Leadership Studies. Her popular articles on leadership, ethics, higher education, and economic themes have appeared in The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today, and The Washington Post.
Vlad Tarko is Associate Professor of Political Economy and Moral Science at the University of Arizona. He has published papers in American Political Science Review, Governance, Business and Politics, Comparative Economic Studies, Kyklos, Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, Journal of Institutional Economics, Review of Austrian Economics, among other journals. He is the author of Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography (2017), coauthor (with Paul Dragos Aligica) of Capitalist Alternatives: Models, Taxonomies, Scenarios (2015), coauthor (with Paul Dragos Aligica and Peter Boettke) of Public Governance and the Classical Liberal Perspective (2019), and coeditor (with Jayme Lemke) of Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School: Building a New Approach to Policy and the Social Sciences (2021). His main research interests are political economy, institutional economics, and entrepreneurship.
Samuel DeCanio is Lecturer in Political Economy at King’s College, London. Formerly, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of the book Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State (2015), in which he argues that high levels of voter ignorance grant democratic governments significant autonomy from popular control, and examines the creation of the American regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. His areas of interest include American political development, democratic theory, representation, state theory, and public opinion. His current research examines democratic politics and political parties, international relations among states, and the ways knowledge interacts with markets and firms.
Samuel Bagg is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2017, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University prior to his current position. His work on democratic theory, political realism, and other topics has appeared in venues including the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, the European Journal of Political Theory, and Dissent Magazine. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy, which argues that the value of democracy is best conceived in terms of resistance to state capture and the dispersion of power, rather than more common ideals of collective self-rule and political equality.
Emily C. Skarbek is Associate Research Professor in the Political Theory Project, and Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics research seminar at Brown University. Her research examines governance institutions and the role of voluntary associations in solving complex problems after natural disasters. Her empirical work uses a range of data from archives, historical sources, and fieldwork following large-scale natural disasters. She also works on intellectual history and how understanding the history of economic thought can inform and advance contemporary debates in political economy. Her work has been published in journals such as Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and in several edited books.
Brian Hutler is a Hecht-Levi Fellow at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. He is a political philosopher and legal theorist, with a J.D. and Ph.D. from UCLA’s Law and Philosophy Program. His research focuses on human rights and freedoms, and their relationship to broader political projects and policy goals. His dissertation centered on religious freedom, assessing and critiquing the availability of religious exemptions in contexts such as medicine and healthcare. As a Hecht-Levi fellow, he will continue to research topics related to human rights and public health, including the right to medical care and the right to nutrition.
Anne Barnhill is Core Faculty at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, and a Research Scholar in the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at the Berman Institute. Dr. Barnhill is a philosopher and bioethicist who works on a range of issues in the ethics of food and agricultural policy, the ethics of public health, and the ethics of influence. She is author of the book Jeffrey Kahn and the Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing Technologies, Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response: Ethics and Governance Guidance (2020), coauthor (with Mark Budolfson and Tyler Doggett) of Food, Ethics and Society: An Introductory Text (2016), and coeditor (with Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett) of The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics (2018). Her articles are published in journals such as the Journal of Medical Ethics, Physiology and Behavior, Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Public Health Ethics, among others.
Paul Moreno is the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in the American Constitution, Professor of History, and Dean of the Social Science Division at Hillsdale College. He is the author of From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America (1999), Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History (2006), The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal (2013), and, most recently, The Bureaucrat Kings (2016). He has taught at Hillsdale College for twenty years, and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University and the University of Paris School of Law.
