LEVY FORUM for Open Discourse

A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, Professor Fryer received tenure at Harvard University at age 30. A professor of economics, his meticulous research focuses on education reform, social interactions, and police use of force.  

Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. For over 20 years, he has written opinion pieces on politics, economics, education, immigration, and race. Mr. Riley is a recipient of the 2018 Bradley Prize, a frequent public speaker, and the author of several books, including most recently The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed.

One of the nation’s most prominent university leaders, Dr. Arnn is the 12^th president of Hillsdale College, where he is also a professor of politics and history. He is the co-founder and past president of the Claremont Institute, and in 2015, he received the Bradley Prize. He serves on several boards, including at the Heritage Foundation and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Walter Russell Mead is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Florida’s Hamilton Center, the “Global View” columnist at the Wall Street Journal, and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College. He has authored numerous books, with his most recent book, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, analyzing the origins of American support for Israel. 

His Eminence Cardinal Dolan is the current Archbishop of New York. Previously, he served as Archbishop of Milwaukee, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and chairman of Catholic Relief Services. In recognition of his contributions to Catholic-Jewish relations, he received the America Jewish Committee’s 2015 Isaiah Award for Exemplary Interreligious Leadership.

Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik is director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. He has lectured throughout the U.S., Europe, and Israel on topics relating to Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, and Jewish-Christian relations.

Dr. Allen Guelzo is a professor of humanities in the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. Previously, he served as the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and director of the James Madison Program’s Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship at Princeton University. An authority on the life and politics of Abraham Lincoln, he is the author of many books on the American Civil War. He is a recipient of the Bradley Prize, and three of his books have been awarded the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.

Dr. Ben Sasse is president emeritus of the University of Florida and professor in the university’s Hamilton Center. He represented Nebraska in the United States Senate from 2015 to 2023, is a two-time New York Times best-selling author, and has taught at Yale University, the University of Texas, and Midland University, where he also served as president.