Contributors

ROGER DONWAY is TNI’s senior editor and a prolific contributor of columns, articles, and reviews to the magazine. For this issue, he presents two related critiques of certain trends among libertarians. In his “Private I” column, Roger identifies what he calls “bourgeois” versus “bohemian” conceptions of individual rights held by libertarians. He expands on related matters in “Bobos, Liberaltarians, and Hippies of the Right”—a provocatively titled article with equally provocative content, as you’ll see. 

DON HAUPTMAN was a freelance advertising copywriter and consultant for more than thirty years. That makes him the perfect choice to review Jerry Kirkpatrick’s In Defense of Advertising for this issue of The New Individualist. Recently, Don retired from advertising to pursue another passion: writing books on language and wordplay. At least, that is what he tells us in e-mails filled with glorious (and sometimes painful) puns.
 
EDWARD L. HUDGINS, executive director of The Atlas Society, presents a variety of contributions throughout the following pages. First, Ed challenges the religious right in “No Faith in Republicans.” Next, in “A Blight at the Opera,” he skewers a Kennedy Center “dramaturg” for writing program notes that transform Wagnerian opera into Politically Correct propaganda. Finally, in the third installment of his series showcasing classic television documentaries of the past, Ed reviews Connections by James Burke.
 
ROBERT L. JONES, TNI entertainment editor and film reviewer, returns from his local movie theater with a pair of film reviews—and this month, he happily gives “two thumbs up.” The first is for 300, the spectacular, if controversial, retelling of the immortal Battle of Thermopylae, where a tiny band of Spartan soldiers stood against an enormous Persian army. His second thumb rises for Miss Potter, a dramatization of the life of children’s author Beatrix Potter, which Robert found to be whimsical and captivating.

SARA PENTZ has published in these pages previously—most notably, a memorable March 2006 interview that she conducted with Dr. Walter Williams. This month, she returns to share her fascinating interview with educator Marsha Familaro Enright. Sara has a wide-ranging background as a journalist, editor/writer, media consultant, radio talk show host, and TV news reporter in New York City, Los Angeles, and Dallas. Her commentaries appear on various websites, including her own: www.sarapentz.com.