Bill Ackman is the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. which he founded in 2003. He is a member of the board of Universal Music Group N.V. (NA:UMG). He serves as a member of the Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors of the Harvard Business School. Mr. Ackman is co-trustee of The Pershing Square Foundation, part of Pershing Square Philanthropies, that bets on innovative leaders solving humanity’s big societal, environmental, and health challenges.

Paul Berman has written two books on Islamism and its reception in the West: Terror and Liberalism and The Flight of the Intellectuals, and two books on the evolution of the modern left from the 1960s into later decades: A Tale of Two Utopias and Power and the Idealists. He has written for many publications, including Liberties, where his essay on the university protests, “A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology,” appeared in the summer issue of 2024 (and then was reprinted in Quillette, where it is easily accessible, including in an audio version).

Rachel Gordan is the National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar in Residence at CJH where she is working on a book about Laura Z. Hobson, bestselling author of the quintessential postwar novel about American antisemitism, Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) Rachel is the Samuel “Bud” Shorstein fellow in American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida-Gainesville, where she teaches in the department of religion and the Center for Jewish Studies. She received her doctorate at Harvard and her BA at Yale. Her book, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American (Oxford, 2024) is available for sale at Ruth’s Bookstore.

Jeffrey Herf, a historian of modern European, especially German, history, is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard, 2006), Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale, 2009), Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967-1989 (Cambridge, 2016), Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 (Cambridge, 2022), and Three Faces of Antisemitism: Right, Left and Islamist (Routledge, 2024). His recent essays on contemporary issues have appeared in the pages of Quillette, Persuasion/American Purpose, Sapir, and Telos.

James Kirchick is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, a writer at large for AIR MAIL, a contributor to the Axel Springer Global Reporters Project, and the author of the instant New York Times bestseller, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. He has reported from over 40 countries and his work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Tablet, the New York Review of Books, New York, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Spectator, and the Times Literary Supplement, among many other publications.

Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University, where she co-directs the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and serves on the Task Force on Antisemitism. Specializing in Jewish migration and economic history, she authored Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora and edited several acclaimed volumes on Jewish economic life. Her upcoming book, A Credit to the Nation, explores immigrant banking in America. A leader in digital humanities, she co-leads the Historical NYC Project and contributes to outlets like The Washington Post, CNN, and The Guardian.

Eli Lake is a columnist for The Free Press and the host of the Breaking History Podcast. He has also been a syndicated columnist for Bloomerg and a senior correspondent for the Daily Beast, the New York Sun and Newsweek.

Nicholas Lemann began his journalism career at 17. He was president of The Harvard Crimson and graduated magna cum laude in American History and Literature (’76). He has held senior roles at The Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker for 25 years. He is a former dean of Columbia Journalism School, where he remains a professor and helped launch Columbia Global Reports, Columbia World Projects, and the Knight First Amendment Institute. Lemann is a co-chair of Columbia’s antisemitism task force. His latest books include Transaction Man and Higher Admissions.

Susie Linfield, a professor of journalism at NYU, is the author of The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence and The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky. She has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, Salmagundi, Haaretz, and Sapir.

Ambassador Deborah E. Lipstadt is Distinguished University Professor at Emory University and former United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism (2022-25). Her books include Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch (2023); Antisemitism: Here and Now (2018); Holocaust: An American Understanding (2016); The Eichmann Trial (2011); and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial (2005).  She was one of TIME 100’s Most Influential People for 2023. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was sued for libel by David Irving, a Holocaust denier. The court declared Irving to be “a right-wing polemicist,” who engages in antisemitism, racism, and misogyny.

Professor Pamela Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University. Her book America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award’s “Book of the Year” and was translated into Hebrew.  Her new book Antisemitism, an American Tradition, will be published by W.W. Norton in October.  A past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, she consults to the museum planned for the rebuild of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life and has testified before Congress about antisemitism and higher education three times.

Martin Peretz received his BA from Brandeis University and his MA and PhD from Harvard University, where he continued on as a teacher in, and later chairman of, the Social Studies program. In 1974, he bought the New Republic, acting as publisher and editor-in-chief for over thirty-five years. Under his stewardship, the New Republic won numerous National Magazine Awards. He is the author of an autobiography, The Controversialist. An updated edition will be released later this year.