Ben Domenech is a conservative writer, publisher, and broadcaster who co-founded The Federalist in 2013 and now serves as opinion editor of The Daily Wire. A teenage prodigy who wrote a National Review Online column before he could legally drink, he became the youngest political appointee in the George W. Bush administration, then built a career as one of the most prolific and combative voices on the American right. He is a Fox News contributor, hosts The Big Ben Show podcast, publishes the insider newsletter The Transom, and is married to TV personality Meghan McCain.
Charlie Sykes spent 23 years as one of Wisconsin's most influential conservative talk-radio voices, then walked away and turned his fire on his own movement. He co-founded The Bulwark, became a fixture of the Never Trump opposition, and now writes the Substack newsletter and hosts the podcast 'To the Contrary.' Author of nine books and an MSNBC contributor, he is a rare media figure who publicly reckoned with the part talk radio played in remaking the American right.
Eric Levitz is a senior correspondent at Vox who covers American politics, economics and the future of the Democratic Party, most visibly through his newsletter and column 'The Rebuild.' A former creative-writing student turned wonk, he spent roughly eight years at New York Magazine's Intelligencer before joining Vox, earning a reputation for data-driven, argument-forward pieces that frequently irritate both the online left and the right - sometimes in the same week.
Jonah Goldberg is a conservative journalist, author, and podcaster who co-founded The Dispatch in 2019 after a 21-year run at National Review, where he launched National Review Online. He hosts the long-running interview podcast The Remnant, writes the twice-weekly G-File newsletter, holds the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute, and writes a syndicated column. The author of three books including the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Liberal Fascism, he has become one of the most prominent 'ideologically grounded but politically homeless' voices on the American right, having walked away from Fox News in protest in 2021.
Ross Douthat is a New York Times opinion columnist, author, and podcast host who became the paper's youngest regular op-ed writer in 2009 at age 29. A conservative Catholic convert with a knack for diagnosing cultural drift, he wrote 'The Decadent Society' and 'Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious,' and now hosts the Times Opinion podcast 'Interesting Times,' where he interviews figures from across the political spectrum about the New Right and a shifting world order.
Matthew Yglesias is one of America's most influential political writers - a Harvard-trained philosopher turned media entrepreneur who co-founded Vox and then bet on himself by launching Slow Boring, a Substack newsletter that earns him over $1.4 million a year. Known for his contrarian, rigorously argued takes on housing, immigration, economics, and American governance, he occupies a strange and productive niche: too wonky for Twitter, too heterodox for legacy media, and too prolific for anyone to ignore.