Robert Weissberg was born in New York City and graduated from Teaneck High School in Teaneck, New Jersey. He received his bachelor’s degree from Bard College and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1969 he has taught political science at Cornell University and the University of Illinois-Urbana and is currently an adjunct professor of politics (at the graduate level) at New York University. He is the author of eleven books, including his most recent, Bad Students, Not Bad Schools. His professional articles have appeared in the major political science journals plus more general publications such as Society, the Weekly Standard, and the American Thinker website. For more information, see his website, badstudentsnotbadschools.com.

Anthony Dent is a senior economics major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Lumberton, North Carolina. He is a Morehead-Cain Scholar and the chief executive officer of the Carolina Liberty Foundation. He is the former co-editor of Carolina Review, chairman of UNC College Republicans, and member of Student Congress.