Jeremy Waldron is a New York University law professor and author of The Harm in Hate Speech, a book about whether the United States should adopt a European-style ban on hate speech.

William McCants is director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution and a fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy. McCants serves as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and has served with the government and think tanks related to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism. He was also a State Department senior […]

Anastasia Norton is manager at the strategic consulting firm Monitor 360 and former senior analyst in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

Daniel Byman is a senior fellow and research director at the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. He also serves as a professor at Georgetown University. His research areas include counterterrorism and Middle East security. He was a staff member on the 9/11 Commission and worked for the U.S. government. He is the author of A High Price: The Triumphs […]

Neil J. Kressel is a professor of psychology at William Patterson University in Wayne, N.J., and the author of Bad Faith: The Danger of Religious Extremism. His scholarship focuses on religion, psychology, prejudice and race relations, history, journalism, politics and political research. He is an expert on religious extremism and anti-Semitism.

Philip Freeman is a professor of Classics at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. His research focuses on Classical Mythology, Ancient Roman Culture, Greece and Rome in film, as well as Latin.

Andre Key is an assistant professor of history at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. He is an expert in the historical development of Black Hebrew religion and Hebrew Israelite ethno-religious identity.

Kathleen Garces-Foley is a professor of theology and religious studies at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. She is co-author of The Twenty-something Soul: Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults.