About the Contributors

DAVID BURGE has successfully reproduced twice, resulting in a daughter (twenty-two) and a son (nineteen) far better than he deserves. He is also the proprietor of Iowahawk (iowahawk. typepad.com), considered by some to be one of the sites on the Internet. His writing has also appeared in the Weekly Standard, Big Hollywood, Garage Magazine, and The Seven Deadly Virtues. He lives in Austin, Texas, where his wife reminds you that fathering a child is the easy part.

CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and the author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe (Doubleday/Penguin). His essays and reviews appear in many U.S. and European publications.

TUCKER CARLSON is the editor of the Daily Caller and the host of Fox & Friends Weekend. He and his wife have four children and two dogs. He likes to fly-fish.

MATTHEW CONTINETTI is editor-in-chief of FreeBeacon.com and a columnist for Commentary magazine.

JOSEPH EPSTEIN’S most recent book is Masters of the Games: Essays and Stories about Sports (Rowman and Littlefield).

ANDREW FERGUSON is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and the author most recently of Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College.

JONAH GOLDBERG is a senior editor of National Review and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. A Fox News contributor, he is the author of two New York Times best sellers, Liberal Fascism and The Tyranny of Clichés. He is currently working on a new book that his dog, Zoë, has absolutely no interest in.

MICHAEL GRAHAM is a writer and radio talk-show host living in Atlanta, Georgia.

STEPHEN F. HAYES is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard and a Fox News contributor.

MATT LABASH is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. His collection Fly-Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys was published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster. He lives in Owings, Maryland.

JONATHAN V. LAST is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard and editor of The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life Is Funny as Hell. In 2013 he published What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster, which is probably the funniest book ever written about fertility and demographics. He lives in Virginia with his wife and three children, and is, slowly, teaching the kids to surf.

JAMES LILEKS is a Metro columnist, blogger, and video producer for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. He writes the “Athwart!” column in National Review and appears fortnightly on Nation al Review Online. Full responsibility for the inordinately large pop-culture repository of lileks.com is his, and he writes “The Bleat” Monday to Friday at that very address. The Casablanca Tango, his latest, a newspaper-noir novel, can be found on amazon.com. He hates biographical paragraphs that end with some small, winsome detail, like this one.

ROB LONG is a writer and producer in Hollywood. He began his career writing and producing TV’s long-running Cheers, and served as co-executive producer in its final season. During his time on the series, Cheers received two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Long has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award, and has received a Writers Guild of America Award. He continues to work in film and television in Los Angeles. His two books, Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke, were republished as a set in 2014 by Bloomsbury. Long is a contributing editor to National Review and a weekly columnist for the National, Abu Dhabi’s English-language daily newspaper. His weekly radio commentary, “Martini Shot,” is broadcast on the Los Angeles public radio station KCRW and is distributed nationally as a podcast. He is a co-founder of the fast-growing Ricochet.com, the place for smart and stimulating conversation—on the Web and mobile devices—from a center/right perspective.

LARRY MILLER is an actor, comedian, voice artist, podcaster, and columnist. He has appeared in over one hundred films and television shows, including Seinfeld and 10 Things I Hate about You, as well as several characters in Christopher Guest’s mockumentary films. His other credits include Pretty Woman, The Nutty Professor, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Law & Order, and Boston Legal. In addition, he’s a contributing humorist to the Huffington Post and the Weekly Standard, as well as the author of the best-selling book Spoiled Rotten America. Miller hosts the podcast The Larry Miller Show, where he unleashes a barrage of humor about the absurdities of daily life.

P. J. O’ROURKE is the author, most recently, of The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way … And It Wasn’t My Fault … And I’ll Never Do It Again. He is a regular contributor to the Weekly Standard and the Daily Beast and an H. L. Mencken Fellow at the Cato Institute. But, first and foremost, he is the proud father of a daughter, Muffin, age seventeen; a daughter, Poppet, age fourteen; and a son, whatsisname, who’s ten or eleven or something like that.

JOE QUEENAN writes the “Moving Targets” column for the Wall Street Journal. Author of nine books, he is a graduate of St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia. He has two children: a lawyer and a doctor of neuroscience.

TOBY YOUNG has worked as a feature writer, a film critic, a political columnist, and a judge on Top Chef over the course of his thirty-year career as a journalist. He is the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, a memoir about his adventures at Vanity Fair magazine in New York, and co-produced the film of the same name. He is currently an associate editor of the Spectator, where he has written a weekly column since 1998.