ALLEN C. GUELZO is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is the bestselling author, most recently, of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy and the American Experiment. He is a three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize.

JAMES HANKINS is Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches Western intellectual history, the history of the classical tradition, and the Italian Renaissance. His prize-winning book, Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy, was published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University in November 2019.