Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard. Polly Shulman is the author of Enthusiasm, a novel for young adults. A.O. Scott is a film critic at the New York Times. Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic. Russ Rymer has written articles for The New Yorker, the New York Times, and other publications. His most recent book is American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory. Andrew Nieland is a writer in New York. David Brooks is senior editor of the Weekly Standard and author of Bobos in Paradise. Alan Brinkley is Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia and the author most recently of Liberalism and Its Discontents. Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She is author of In the Age of the Smart Machine. Richard Sennett teaches at the London School of Economics; his most recent book is The Corrosion of Character: Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism.

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