Bio
Laura Kipnis - Laura Kipnis is a professor of media studies at Northwestern University. She is also an active cultural and media critic who focuses especially on gender issues, pornography, and popular culture.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has received fellowships for her work from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Harvey C. Mansfield - Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught for more than forty years. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and in 2004 he received the National Humanities Medal.
He is the author of studies of Aristotle, Burke, Machiavelli, Tocqueville, Hobbes, constitutional government, and most recently, manliness. He is a self-described Straussian, and some of his most notable students include Andrew Sullivan, Alan Keyes, Bill Kristol, James R. Stoner, Jr., Nathan Tarcov, Clifford Orwin, Mark Blitz, Paul Cantor, Delba Winthrop, Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and James Ceaser.