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Alan WolfeÌýis the founding director of the Boisi Center and Professor of Political Science at md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College. He received his doctorate in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. He has honorary degrees from Loyola College in Maryland and St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Wolfe is author of more than a dozen books, includingÌýThe Future of LiberalismÌý(Knopf, 2009),ÌýÌý(Yale, 2006),ÌýÌý(Penguin, 1999) ²¹²Ô»åÌýÌý(Free Press, 2003). Widely considered one of the nation's most prominent public intellectuals, he is an editor atÌýThe New Republic, aÌýfrequentÌýcontributor toÌýThe NewÌýYork Times,Ìý³Ù³ó±ðÌýAtlantic MonthlyÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýWashington Post, and has delivered lectures across the United States, Europe and Middle East. (More info on Alan Wolfe...)

Mary Sarah BilderÌýis a Professor ofÌýLaw teaching in the areas of property and American legal and constitutional history at md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College Law School. She also is the MichaelÌýand Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar.ÌýShe received her J.D.Ìýfrom Harvard Law School and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in the History of American Civilization. She writes primarily in the area of constitutionalism and colonial American legal culture. She is the author ofÌýThe Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the EmpireÌý(Harvard University Press, 2004), awarded the Littleton-Griswold Award from the American Historical Association. Her articles appear in ³Ù³ó±ðÌýMany Legalities of Early America,Ìý³Ù³ó±ðÌýCambridge History of Law in America, and law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Journal of Law and the HumanitiesÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýthe Hastings Law Journal. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of Law and History Review, the Council of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Board of Overseers of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society, and is a member of the American Law Institute.

Daniel J. MahoneyÌýis Professor of Political Science at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. He is the author and editor ofÌýeleven books, including most recentlyÌýThe Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005,Ìýwhich was released in a paperback edition in January of 2009. His essays and reviews on a wide variety of topics have appeared inÌýThe National Interest, The Public Interest, First Things, The New Criterion, The Wall Street Journal, The European Journal of Political TheoryÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýPerspectives on Political Science, among other places. He is book review editor ofÌý³§´Ç³¦¾±±ð³Ù²âÌýand associate editor ofÌýPerspectives on Political Science. In 1999 he was the recipient of the Prix Raymond Aron. He is presently completing a book entitledÌýDefending Truth and Liberty: The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order.