Eric Adler is Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Maryland. His scholarship focuses on the history of the humanities, Roman historiography, and the history of classical studies. In addition to many scholarly articles, Adler has written three monographs: Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography (University of Texas Press, 2011); Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond (University of Michigan Press, 2016); and The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today (Oxford University Press, 2020). Deeply interested in the New Humanist movement, he is also the editor of Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt – Paul Elmer More Correspondence (University of Missouri Press, 2023).

Claes G. Ryn is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Distinguished Senior Scholar and Founding Director Emeritus of the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University of America, where he Chaired his department. His scholarship focuses on ethics and politics, politics and culture, the history of Western political thought, and epistemology. His many books include Democracy and the Ethical Life (The Catholic University of American Press, 1990), America the Virtuous (Routledge, 2003), A Common Human Ground (University of Missouri Press, 2003), and, most recently, The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken (Republic Book Publishers, 2023). In 2012 he was named Honorary Professor at Beijing Normal University. He served as president of the Philadelphia Society, Chairman and co-founder of the National Humanities Institute, and President and co-founder of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.