contributors

John M. Vella earned his master’s degree in history from Villanova University in 2010.

Jack Trotter writes from Charleston, South Carolina.

Srdja Trifkovic, foreign-affairs editor for Chronicles, is the author of several books, including The Sword of the Prophet: Islam—History, Theology, Impact on the World.

Taki Theodoracopulos is a writer living in New York, London, and Gstaad.  In addition to his long-running High Life column in The Spectator, Taki writes Under the Black Flag for each number of Chronicles, and publishes Taki’s Magazine, a webzine.

Christopher Roach is an attorney in private practice based in Florida. He has written for The Federalist, Takimag, the Orlando Sentinel, and has a regular column in American Greatness.

Thomas Piatak is a contributing editor to Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He writes from Cleveland, Ohio.

Ilana Mercer has written a weekly, paleolibertarian column since 1999. Her latest book is The Tump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed.

George McCartney, a professor of English at St. John's College, is film editor for Chronicles.  He is the author of Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition (Transaction).

Timothy D. Lusch is an attorney and writer.  His work has appeared in Saint Austin Review and Crisis Magazine. He blogs at pityitspithy.com.

Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director for the Program on Historical Studies of Religion at the Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University.  He is the author of several books, including Crucible of Faith: The Ancient Revolution That Made Our Modern Religious World (Basic Books).

Ian Henderson is a local government official in California and a former reporter for The Epoch Times.

Grant Havers is an associate editor of VoegelinView and Philosophy Department Chair at Trinity University in Canada. 

Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator.

Paul Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for twenty-five years. He is a Guggenheim recipient and a Yale Ph.D. He writes for many websites and scholarly journals and is the author of 13 books, most recently Fascism: The Career of a Concept and Revisions and Dissents. He is currently editing for Cornell University Press an anthology on the conservative movement, and a study of antifascism. Gottfried was one of the original contributors to (then-named) Chronicles of Culture, when it was founded in 1977 by Leopold Tyrmand and John Howard. In the first 30 years of the publication’s existence he wrote for it more than 150 times.

Devin C. Foley is co-founder and chief executive of The Charlemagne Institute, publisher of Chronicles.

John M. DeJak, an attorney, is headmaster of Holy Spirit Academy in Monticello, Minnesota.

Mark G. Brennan is the books editor of Chronicles and writes from New York.

Wayne Allensworth is the author of The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia (Rowman & Littlefield) and most recently, Field of Blood: A Gripping Modern Western Set on the USA's Southern Border.