Contributors

ROGER DONWAY, our senior editor, devotes his latest “Private I” column to “The Genealogy of Heroism”—the perfect thematic lead-in for this issue of TNI, which explores many aspects of heroism. Later, he reviews Al Gore’s new bestseller The Assault on Reason and finds the book itself to be an example of that very assault.

ED DRISCOLL has been writing professionally since 1995, often on topics that intersect technology, politics, and pop culture, for magazines ranging from PC World to Guitar World. Ed’s also been a denizen of the Blogosphere since early 2002, and his popular website can be found at www.eddriscoll.com. Who better, then, to chronicle the Blogosphere’s rising challenge to the mainstream media?

LOU VILLADSEN lives in Plantation, Florida, where she works as an accountant/administrator for a nonprofit human-services organization. Her father was a chemical engineer, and her husband has a degree in mechanical engineering, which he uses in his work as a policy analyst. That helps to explain her appreciation of “heroic engineers,” about whom she writes this month. Lou also appreciates romance novels, as she explained in our Winter 2006 issue.

ROBERT L. BRADLEY, JR., president of the Institute for Energy Research in Houston, is one of the nation’s leading experts on the history and regulation of energy. Holding a Ph.D. in political economy, Rob is a prolific writer and speaker currently working on his sixth book. He’s also a former Enron insider, interviewed in the April 2006 TNI about the fall of that company and its late CEO, Ken Lay.

LANCE LAMBERTON served as deputy director of the White House Office of Policy Information in the Reagan administration, where he authored key domestic position papers on issues such as tuition tax credits and a balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Lance holds a Masters in American History from New York University and has written for the Wall Street Journal, Reason, and National Review, as well as TNI.

ROBERT L. JONES, TNI’s entertainment editor, moonlights as an officer with the Coast Guard Auxiliary. (Or is it TNI where he moonlights?) Anyway, in this issue Robert reviews a chilling new psychological drama, The Page Turner. Just turn these pages to find it.