Contributors

WALTER DONWAY is a founding trustee of The Atlas Society, and the founding editor of Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science. He reviewed Nancy Andreasen’s The Creating Brain for our March issue. But only recently did we discover Walter’s hidden talent as a poet, which we happily showcase here with the publication of “Empire of Earth,” his stirring tribute to the entrepreneurs who built our great railroads.

ROGER DONWAY, TNI senior editor, also serves as senior research fellow at the Institute for Energy Research. He contributes regularly to these pages—most recently, with his review of The Tycoons (March) and his interview with former Enron official Robert L. Bradley, Jr. (April). As editor of Navigator, the predecessor to this magazine, Roger reported in July-August 2004 about the government’s persecution of businessman Frank Quattrone. Here, he brings the happy news of Quattrone’s vindication.

EDWARD L. HUDGINS, executive director of The Atlas Society, is publisher of The New Individualist. Ed previously was director of regulatory studies at the Cato Institute and editor of its magazine, Regulation; a senior economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress; and deputy director for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation.

MARSHA FAMILARO ENRIGHT has been riveted by the pleasures and problems of education since the third grade. She founded the Council Oak Montessori School near Chicago in 1990, and serves as its president. Also founder and president of the Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute, Marsha and her colleagues are developing a new college informed by the Montessori Method, the Great Books, Ayn Rand’s ideas, and classical liberalism (www.collegeunitedstates.org). Trained in biology and psychology, she has written research articles on psychology, neuropsychology, and development for Objectivity and The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, as well as on education for Tomorrow’s Child, The Montessori Way, and the Institute for Objectivist Studies. Marsha has run the New Intellectual Forum in Chicago since 1988, and lectures nationally. In these pages, she celebrates the insight and wit of author Tom Wolfe, whom she discovered in college.

BRUCE S. THORNTON is a frequent TNI contributor. A prolific author and essayist, he is Professor of Classics and Humanities at California State University in Fresno. His books include Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization, and Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age, which he co-authored with Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath.

ROBERT L. JONES is TNI entertainment editor and (as in this issue) our regular film reviewer. As a policy writer for Rudy Giuliani’s 1993 mayoral campaign, Robert co-authored the candidate’s position paper on crime and law enforcement. His articles and photos have been featured in numerous publications, and he has created classical music websites devoted to Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jean Sibelius, and currently, Eugene Ormandy.