NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

J. BRIAN BENESTAD is Professor of Theology at the University of

Scranton. He is the author of more than fifty scholarly articles,
particularly in the field of theological ethics, and he is currently
writing a book on Catholic social thought.
MICHAEL DAVIS is Professor of Political Science at Sarah
Lawrence College in New York. He serves on the editorial board
of Ancient Philosophy, and he is a translator of Aristotle's On
Poetics. His most recent book is The Autobiography of Philoso-
phy (1999).
DAVID DESRosIERS is Vice President of the Manhattan Institute
for Policy Research. He received a Ph.D. from Fordham Univer -
sity in 2001, where he,wrote a dissertation on the political science
of Bertrand de Jouvenel. With Daniel J. Mahoney, he co-
authored the Introduction to the Liberty Fund edition of
Jouvenel's Sovereignty (1997).
ALAN GIBSON is Associate Professor of Political Science at Califor-
nia State University, Chico. A specialist on American political
thought, Gibson has published articles in Polity, History of
Political Thought, and The Review of Politics. He is currently
finishing a book tentatively entitled Ancients, Moderns, and
Americans: Confrontations in the Study of the American Found-
ing, which will be published by the University Press of Kansas..
ALEXANDER J. GROTH is Professor of Political Science, emeritus, at
the University of California at Davis. He is the author, most
recently, of Democracies Against Hitler (1999) and Revolution
and Political Change (1996).
DENNIS HALE is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston
College, and the co-editor (with Marc Landy) of two volumes of
Bertrand de Jouvenel's essays: The Nature of Politics (1992) and
Economics and the Good Life (1999), both published by Transac-
tion. He has also, written essays and reviews on American political
thought, modern citizenship, public administration, and state and
local government. He is currently at work on a study of the
American jury system.
DANIEL J. MAHONEY has taught political science at Assumption
College since 1986. He has authored books on Raymond Aron,
Charles de Gaulle, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and has edited
and introduced the writings of Aron, Jouvenel, Aurel Kolnai, and
Pierre Manent. He is presently completing a book entitled
Bertrand de Jouvenel: Liberty, Power, and the Common Good,
and is editing a Solzhenitsyn Reader with Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
Both volumes will be published by ISI Books.
IAN A. T. MCLEAN is an attorney practicing civil and criminal law
in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was a clerk for Judge Clarkson S.
Fisher of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey and for Judge
Pasco Bowman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit. He has also served as a deputy attorney general repre-
senting the state of Indiana in criminal cases before the Indiana
Courts of Appeal and the Indiana Supreme Court. He has served
as chief deputy prosecutor in Union County, Indiana, and deputy
prosecutor for Montgomery County, Indiana.
WILSON CAREY MCWILLIAMS is Professor of Political Science at
Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous articles and
reviews and-among other books-of The Idea of Fraternity in
America (1973) and Beyond the Politics of Disappointment?
American Elections, 1980-1998 (2000).
WALTER B. MEAD is Professor of Political Science, emeritus, at
Illinois State University. He is the author of numerous articles
and reviews in such journals as The Review of Politics, Interpre-
tation, Modern Age, the Journal of Politics, and The Intercolle-
giate Review. He is also the author of two books: Extremism and
Cognition: Styles of Irresponsibility in American Society (1971)
and The United States Constitution: Personalities, Principles and
Issues (1982).
JAMES W. SKILLEN is President of the Center for Public Justice in
Washington, D.C., and editor of the quarterly Public Justice
Report. He is author of numerous articles and several books,
including The Scattered Voice: Christians At Odds in the Public
Square (1990) and Recharging the American Experiment: Prin-
cipled Pluralism for Genuine Civic Community (1994).