Editor: Jeffrey Friedman, Editor, founded Critical Review in 1986, when he was a History grad student at the University of California at Berkeley, having graduated from Brown with a BA in History and Philosophy. After getting an MA and achieving the coveted ABD from Berkeley, he enrolled in Yale's Political Science graduate program in 1991, receiving an MA in 1993, an M.Phil. in 1995, and a Ph.D. in 2002. His dissertation, "The Politics of Communitarianism and the Emptiness of Liberalism," is being considered for publication by Princeton University Press. Previously he published introductions to editions of Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" and Mill's "On Liberty," and edited The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered (Yale Univ. Press, 1996). He has taught Consitutional law, contemporary political theory, democratic theory, social-science methodology, and the history of political thought at Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Barnard College, Columbia University.

Senior Editor: Dan Greenberg, BA Philosophy (Honors) Brown 1988, MA Philosophy Bowling Green State University 1990, J.D. Bowen School of Law 2006, taught philosophy, was managing editor at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and published scholarly papers in such journals as The Monist and the Ohio State Law Review before becoming a policy analyst, first in Washington DC, and then in the executive branch of Arkansas state government. A licensed attorney, he is currently a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives. In 2004, he began teaching a course on politics at the Arkansas Governor's School for the Gifted and Talented. He is currently an adjunct professor of law at Bowen Law School.

Managing Editor: Shterna Friedman graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College in 2003. Her thesis, "Goldfarb and Cavell on Wittgenstein: The Urge to Philosophize," received the Pepperell Montague Prize for best senior thesis in philosophy. The recipient of the Peter S. Prescott prize for prose fiction and the Howard M. Teichmann Writing Prize, she attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop as a Truman Capote Fellow, receiving her MFA in 2006.

Stephen Earl Bennett, Associate Editor, received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois in 1972. Since then he has become a leading scholar of public opinion, having published in all the leading political-science and public-opinion journals. He is the author of Apathy in America (Transaction, 1986) and The American Ignoramus (in press, Peter Lang); the co-editor of After the Boom: The Politics of Generation X (Rowman and Littlefield, 1997); and the co-author, with Linda L. M. Bennett, of Local Political Leadership and Governmental Structure: The Case of Cincinnati and Living with Leviathan: Americans Coming to Terms with Big Government (Kansas, 1990).

Publisher Emeritus: Richard Cornuelle is the author of Reclaiming the American Dream (Random House, 1965), De-Managing America (Random House, 1975), and Healing America (Putnam, 1983). Formerly an administrator of the William Volker Fund, he later founded the Center for Independent Action, which pioneered such non-governmental forms of assistance to the needy as guaranteed tuition loans for impoverished college students, employment opportunities for the supposedly unemployable, the provision of low-cost housing, and private urban renewal.