Contributors

Robert L. Bradley Jr. is founder and chairman of the Institute for Energy Research (www.energyrealism.org). His essay “Mining the Ultimate Resource” in this issue draws upon his sixth book, Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy (M & M Scrivener Press, 2008). The book’s website is www.politicalcapitalism.org.
 
Fred Cookinham, author of The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World, conducts popular historic walking tours of New York City, including several focusing on Ayn Rand’s life and books. He makes his debut in TNI with a charming recounting of his experiences while holding a sign in Grand Central Station that advertises his Rand tours.
 
Roger Donway, TNI senior editor, contributed a lot of fine behind-the-scenes work to this issue. More visible is Roger’s “Private I” column, which proposes a form of non-sacrificial patriotic commitment to America. And in his review of J. Craig Venter’s recent autobiography, he ponders how we can encourage creative geniuses who are also contemptible human beings.
 
Bradley Doucet concludes his illuminating seven-part series of reviews of books about “the seven deadly sins” with a look at Pride by Michael Eric Dyson. A native of Canada, Bradley is a contributor to Le Québécois Libre as well as being a contributing writer for TNI.
 
Robert L. Jones, our entertainment editor, focuses on film documentaries this month. He extols Indoctrinate U, a compelling look at leftist assaults against free speech on campus. He also dissects author/actor Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which attempts (futilely) to refute scientific Darwinism.
 
James H. Joyner Jr. is managing editor for the Atlantic Council of the United States. A former Army officer and combat veteran, Dr. Joyner blogs at OutsideTheBeltway.com.  His most recent contributions to TNI include his March interview with author Jed Babbin. Here, he reviews Michael Yglesias’s foreign-policy book Heads in the Sand.
 
Eugene C. Holloway is a retired attorney and until recently was director of operations and development for The Atlas Society. Gene has had a long-time interest in economics, reflected in his feature article that untangles for us the government-fostered crisis in the banking and home-loan industries.