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Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He writes the Head Case column for the Wall Street Journal and regularly appears on WNYC's Radiolab. His writing has also appeared in Nature, the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and Outside. The author of two previous books, Proust Was a Neuroscientist and How We Decide, he graduated from Columbia University and attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.

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Noam Chomsky is widely considered one of the greatest and most controversial intellects of the past century. He is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and a major figure of analytic philosophy. His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology. Ideologically identifying with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism, Chomsky is known for his critiques of U.S. foreign policy and contemporary capitalism, and he has been described as one of the great cultural figures of our time. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992, and was the eighth most cited source overall. He is the author of over 100 books.

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Over the course of a 34-year career in the Foreign Service, Ambassador Davidow became one of America's most senior and well-respected diplomats. He has extensive experience in both Latin America and Africa, having served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Venezuela, and Zambia. He also headed the State Department's efforts in Latin America, serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He retired in 2003 from the U.S. State Department with the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest position in the Foreign Service which, by law, can be held by no more than five individuals at one time.

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Marcia Clark soared into national prominence as the prosecutor of legendary football player O.J. Simpson. Yet, long before the Simpson trial made her famous, Clark had built an enviable legal reputation. The one-time professional dancer left private practice to become a Los Angeles assistant district attorney in 1981, a fortuitous career choice that allowed the twenty-eight-year-old lawyer to combine her interest in victim advocacy with powerful preparatory skills and a strong courtroom style. Clark prevailed in nineteen successful homicide prosecutions in just over a decade against such high-profile defendants as the murderer of TV actress Rebecca Schaeffer and Los Angeles vigilante James Hawkins. She is noted for her ability to critically examine complex scientific evidence. Ms. Clark is a frequent media commentator and columnist on legal issues, and is the author of the highly praised national bestseller novel Guilt By Association, and its soon to be released follow-up Guilt By Degrees.

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Charles Murray is no stranger to controversy. Named by The National Journal as one of the 50 “People Who Make a Difference” in national policy-making, he is one of the select few leading today’s debate on social policy. He is known for his frank and candid approach, and his bestselling books Losing Ground, The Bell Curve, and other works have provided a much needed dose of reality when it comes to the issues surrounding education, government, and social reform. He is the H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. In addition to his books and articles in technical journals, Murray has published extensively in The New Republic, Commentary, The Public Interest, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and the Washington Post. He has been a frequent witness before congressional and senate committees and a consultant to senior government officials on education and welfare.

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Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, and now practices law in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for President in 2008, but has since returned to the Republican Party. He is Chairman of Liberty Guard, Inc. a non-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting individual liberty, and he heads a consulting firm, Liberty Strategies, Inc. Bob is a registered Mediator and Arbitrator and teaches constitutional law at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, in addition to serving on the boards of directors for the National Rifle Association and 1Force, a company providing domestic and international security.

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Ted Lewis is the Executive Director of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and author of over a dozen books. His most-recent book, “Bak's Sand Pile: Strategies for a Catastrophic World,” explains why massive power blackouts are certain to happen, why terrorism will die out, and how commercial air travel reduces the likelihood of global pandemics.

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Brigitte Gabriel is one of the leading terrorism experts in the world, and the founder, president and CEO of ACT! for America, the largest grassroots citizen action network dedicated to preserving national security and combating Islamic supremacy.   She’s the author of two New York Times Bestsellers, BECAUSE THEY HATE: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America and THEY MUST BE STOPPED: Why we must defeat radical Islam and how we can do it.  She has addressed the Australian Prime Minister, members of The British Parliament/House of Commons, members of the U.S. Congress, The Joint Forces Staff College, The U.S. Special Operations Command, the FBI, and many others.  In addition, Gabriel is a former news anchor for Middle East Television, and today is a regular guest analyst on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC and various radio stations across America.  She serves on the board of advisors of the Intelligence Summit.

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Paul R. Ehrlich a biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. He is widely considered one of the most controversial thinkers of the past half century. By training he is an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies), but he's also a prominent ecologist and demographer. Ehrlich is best known for his warnings about population growth and limited resources, and for his 1968 book The Population Bomb – one of the most highly debated writings of the 20th century.

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Vinton G. Cerf is widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet,” as he is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the technology; and in November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. He has served as Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google since October 2005, where he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services. He also is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI, and previously served as MCI’s senior vice president of Architecture and Technology. In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."

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Frank Newport, Ph.D., is Gallup's Editor in Chief and the immediate past president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He focuses on analyzing the Americans' views of their elected officials and public attitudes toward and behavior relating to key policy and issue areas, including the economy, religion, wellbeing, and key indicators of public mood and consumer behavior. His analyses appear on Gallup.com; in his blog, "Polling Matters"; in books and other publications; and on video, in podcasts, and through radio and television appearances. Dr. Newport is coauthor of Winning the White House 2008: The Gallup Poll, Public Opinion, and the Presidency and author of Polling Matters: Why Leaders Must Listen to the Wisdom of the People. He is co-author with Stuart Rothenberg of The Evangelical Voter: Religion and Politics in America and his book Religion Matters will be published by Gallup Press in 2012. Dr. Newport has written for such publications as the The New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, and his weekly radio show, "What Are We Thinking?" is produced and syndicated by Philadelphia NPR affiliate WHYY-FM, and he is the featured analyst on "Attitude Check", broadcast weekly on public radio's "Marketplace."

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David Bonior is the Chair of American Rights at Work’s Board of Directors and has served in this role since the organization’s founding in 2003. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, he served Michigan’s Macomb and St. Clair Counties for 26 years—the longest tenure of any Congressman from this district. When he retired at the end of 2002, he had held the position of Democratic Whip, the second ranking Democrat in the House, for 10 years. His tenure in Congress was marked by a passion for social and economic justice, and he earned a reputation as a strong voice for working families and as a leader on the environment, fair trade, jobs, and human and civil rights. He was also known for his tenacity in opposing Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, against whom Bonior filed more than seventy-five ethics charges.

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Michael Dukakis was the Democratic nominee for President in 1988, a race that he would go on to lose to George H.W. Bush. After serving four terms in the Massachusetts legislature, from 1962 to 1970, he served as the Governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. Since June 1991, Dukakis has been a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and visiting Professor at the School of Public Affairs at UCLA. His research has focused on national health care policy reform and the lessons that national policy makers can learn from state reform efforts. He and the late former U.S. Senator Paul Simon authored the book titled “How to Get Into Politics – and Why,” which is designed to encourage young people to think seriously about politics and public service as a career. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, served in the US Army from 1955 to 1957, and is a former board member of Amtrak – a position he was appointed to by President Bill Clinton.

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Alberto Gonzales was the 80th Attorney General of the United States, having been appointed to the post by President George W. Bush in February 2005. He was the first Hispanic to hold that position and is the highest-ranking Hispanic government official ever. In addition, he is the only lawyer in the nation’s history to serve as both the White House Counsel and Attorney General. He is widely considered a key architect of the War on Terror and has been very outspoken on such issues as immigration, the rights of children and fighting against sexual predators. He also served as George W. Bush’s General Counsel while he was Governor of Texas, and subsequently as Secretary of State of Texas, and as a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He is currently the Doyle Rogers Distinguished Chair of Law at Belmont University, in Nashville, and has also recently joined the law firm of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis.

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Bob Woodruff is an award-winning broadcast journalist for ABC News. He has covered major stories throughout the country and around the world, and was named co-anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight in December 2005. On January 29, 2006, he was seriously injured by a roadside bomb that struck his vehicle near Taji, Iraq. Just 13 months after being wounded, he returned to ABC News with his first on-air report, To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports. This prime time documentary chronicled his traumatic brain injury, painstaking recovery, and the plight of thousands of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with similar injuries. He continues to cover this topic and was honored with a Peabody Award in 2008 for his reporting on the subject. In February 2007, Woodruff and his wife Lee published the best-selling memoir In An Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing, chronicling his injuries in Iraq and how their family persevered through a time of intense trauma and uncertainty. They also established the Bob Woodruff Foundation to help heal the physical and hidden wounds of war by providing resources and support to injured service members, veterans and their families. In July 2008, Woodruff began anchoring Focus Earth, a weekly eco-newscast for Planet Green, Discovery Communications’ 24/7 eco-lifestyle network.

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Peter Diamond is a Nobel Prize winning economist and Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT. He has written on public finance, social insurance, behavioral economics, uncertainty and search theories, and macroeconomics. His books include Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (with Peter R. Orszag), Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices and Pension Reform: A Short Guide (both with Nicholas Barr), and Behavioral Economics and Its Applications (edited with Hannu Vartiainen). His recent report is Pension Reform in China: Issues, Options and Recommendations (with Nicholas Barr). He has been President of the American Economic Association, of the Econometric Society, and of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He was one of the three winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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Josef Avesar, an Israeli-born attorney who resides in Southern California, is president of the founding committee of the Israeli Palestinian Confederation. He has conducted numerous symposia on the concept of a confederation between Israelis and Palestinians and has hosted political and civic leaders from around the world in discussions of confederation as a means of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Peace is his first political book.

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Amy Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. She is the author of two books on international affairs, and as of January 2011, she is most noted for her parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which is a comic memoir that ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting techniques.

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With more than two decades of political and private sector consulting experience in the US and around the globe, Alex has developed communications strategies and campaigns for Fortune 100 Companies, served as media consultant to five U.S. presidential campaigns, helped elect eight U.S. senators and six governors. Fortune Magazine singled out Castellanos as a “new-style media master.” In 2007, GQ Magazine called Castellanos one of the 50 Most Influential People in D.C. Castellanos brings a wealth of campaign strategy, public opinion research and communications experience to corporate and public policy campaigns. He is a member of CNN’s “Best Political Team on Television," and appears regularly on NBC's Meet the Press and numerous other television public affairs programs.

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Jeff Greenfield is a four-time Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist. He is a veteran political, media and culture reporter, and has served as senior political correspondent at CBS News since May 2007. He contributes to the CBS Evening News, The Early Show, CBS News Sunday Morning and other CBS News broadcasts, as well as CBSNews.com. Prior to joining CBS he was a senior political analyst for CNN from 1998 to 2007; and a political and media analyst for ABC News, where he was a regular contributor to Nightline and ABC World News Sunday from 1983 to 1997. In addition, he is a bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction books - including his 2011 release Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics – and has also written for such publications as Harper’s, National Lampoon, Politico, and the New York Times Magazine. Prior to becoming a member of the media, Greenfield worked in politics, including as a Senate aide and speechwriter for Robert F. Kennedy from 1967 to 1968.

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Peter Coyote is a bit of a modern day renaissance man. He is an acclaimed actor, director, screenwriter, author, musician, narrator and social activist. He has appeared in such film and television projects as E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Jagged Edge, Patch Adams, Erin Brokovich, Law & Order, and NCIS; and is an Emmy Award-winning narrator of numerous acclaimed projects for PBS, such as “War on Terror” and “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” – in addition to Ken Burns’ “National Parks” and “Prohibition.” He was a founding member of Diggers, a radical community action group of activists and improv actors operating in San Francisco from 1966 to 1968. He has written for Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, and the San Francisco Chronicle; and is also a past Chairman of the California State Arts Council.

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Sebastian Junger is the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of "The Perfect Storm", "A Death in Belmont", "Fire" and "War". He also teamed with Tim Heatherington to produce "Restrepo", a feature-length documentary that chronicled the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, with whom the filmmakers were embedded with for one year. It was the winner of the 2010 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories in Liberia, Sierra Leone and other places around the globe. He has been awarded the National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism. He became a fixture in the national media when, as a first-time author, he commanded The New York Times bestseller list for more than three years with "The Perfect Storm", which later set sales records and became a major motion picture from Warner Bros, starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg.

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Michael Winston is a prominent executive in the field of organization management, and is also a rarity among corporate whistle-blowers. A former executive at Countrywide Financial, he spent three years in a legal battle with the once-mighty mortgage giant, and its current owner, Bank of America. He contended that he was punished and pushed out for not toeing the company line, and in February 2011, a California jury agreed and awarded him damages, thus proving that the company was not above the law. With thirty years of cutting-edge experience as a business leader, change agent, and organization strategist, he has spent his career preparing organizations to meet the challenges of rapid, continuous and disruptive market change and to capitalize on the resulting opportunities. He is dedicating his life to promoting vision-driven, values-based leadership that is a force for good, not evil. Finally, he wants to rid the world of companies that abuse shareholders, customers, employees and society.

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Jared Diamond is one of America's most celebrated scholars. He is a professor of Geography and Physiology at the University of California, and is equally renowned for his work in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, and for his groundbreaking studies of the birds of Papua New Guinea. He has authored eight books and numerous academic monographs, and his best-selling The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee won two science prizes in 1992. It was his1997 publication of Guns, Germs and Steel, which sealed Diamond's global reputation. The book has since won the Pulitzer Prize, been translated into 25 languages and sold millions of copies around the world.

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Patrick Buchanan is truly one of the grand champions of the conservative movement. He has been a senior advisor to three Presidents, a two-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and was the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in 2000. From 1966 through 1974, he was an assistant to Richard Nixon, and from 1985 to 1987, White House Director of Communications for Ronald Reagan. He has written ten books, including six straight New York Times best sellers A Republic, Not an Empire; The Death of the West; Where the Right Went Wrong; State of Emergency; Day of Reckoning and Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War. His newest book is already making waves, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? He is currently a columnist, political analyst for MSNBC, chairman of The American Cause foundation and an editor of The American Conservative.

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Richard Marcinko is best known as the founder and first commanding officer of two of the military's premier counter-terrorist units: SEAL Team 6 and RED CELL. He has over 30 years experience in a variety of specialties including counter-terrorism, intelligence and special operations. Enlisting in U.S. Navy in 1958, Marcinko worked his way up to the rank of commander. While serving two tours in Vietnam, Marcinko won the Silver Star, four bronze stars with combat V, two Navy Commendation Medals, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star. His SEAL platoon became such an enemy killing force, that the Viet Cong posted a reward for his death. He is also the author of five bestselling novels and an autobiography, a critically acclaimed book on management and leadership techniques, and he gives professional lectures to law enforcement and business executives, and dynamic hands-on training to U.S. and foreign hostage rescue teams. He also acts as a corporate advisor to multi-national businesses including AT&T, Motorola and General Motors on such issues as corporate security, team-building, operational management and strategic planning.

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Christopher Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005). In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received in 2002 the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He writes a weekly column on Mondays for Truthdig and authored the front-page article "This Rebellion Will Not Stop" for Issue 2 of the The Occupied Wall Street Journal (October 8, 2011), the newspaper giving voice to The Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City.

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Steve Farber is the president of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated, an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. His latest book, Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson In Leadership, was a Wall Street Journal® and USA Today® bestseller. His second book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World, was hailed as “a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit.” And his first book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership, is already considered a classic in the leadership field.

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Terry O'Neill is the President of the National Organization for Women. She is also President of the NOW Foundation and chair of the NOW Political Action Committees, and serves as the principal spokesperson for all three entities. She oversees NOW's multi-issue agenda, which includes: advancing reproductive freedom, promoting diversity and ending racism, stopping violence against women, winning lesbian rights, ensuring economic justice, ending sex discrimination and achieving constitutional equality for women. She has fought for equal rights as President of Louisiana NOW and New Orleans NOW, and as a member of the National Racial Diversity Committee. She is also a former law professor that has taught at Tulane University and at the University of California at Davis, where her courses included feminist legal theory and international women's rights law, in addition to corporate law and legal ethics.

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Susan N. Herman is the President of the American Civil Liberties Union, a position she was elected to in October 2008, after having served on the ACLU National Board of Directors for twenty years, as a member of the Executive Committee for sixteen years, and as General Counsel for ten years. She is the author of several books, including her new release Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of Democracies. She holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she currently teaches courses in Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure, and seminars on Law and Literature, and Terrorism and Civil Liberties.

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Guy Kawasaki is truly one of the great tech and venture capital minds in the world. He is the co-founder of AllTop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple, where he was also part of the team that marketed the very first Macintosh computer in 1984. He is the author of ten books including Enchantment, Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way.

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John F. Burns is the London Bureau Chief for the New York Times, where he is the longest-serving foreign correspondent in the paper’s history, having worked for more than 30 years on assignment in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, as well as a two-time winner of the prestigious George Polk Award for foreign reporting. He has been a regular guest and contributor on numerous news shows, including Charlie Rose, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Morning Joe, Anderson Cooper 360, and others on NBC, CBS and ABC.

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Bob King is one of he leading advocates for labor rights in the world. He was elected UAW President in June, 2010. Known for his activism and passionate belief in social and economic justice, King also served three terms as a UAW vice president. He has led delegations to all corners of the world to stand in solidarity with the oppressed. In 1990, he supported trade unionists and church members in El Salvador who were victims of a long campaign of deadly bombings, death-squad murders and disappearances carried out by Salvadoran soldiers trained by the U.S. military’s School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga. He’s a U.S. Army veteran and continues to play a key role in preserving labor rights in the US and beyond.

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Dr. Jaffe is an internationally recognized scientist and public health leader, and is currently the Associate Director for Science at the Centers for Disease Control. In 1981, he joined a CDC task force investigating a new disease, soon to become known as AIDS. He led the first national case-control study to determine risk factors for the disease and the first natural history study of HIV. Over the next two decades he served in leadership positions in the CDC′s expanding HIV/AIDS programs, including Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS, Director of the Division of AIDS, STD, and TB Laboratory Research, and Director of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. Dr. Jaffe is a member of the Institute of Medicine of The National Academies, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has been a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health.

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Senator William W. Bradley is a Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC, and is the host of American Voices, a weekly show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio that highlights the remarkable accomplishments of Americans both famous and unknown. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1979 to 1997 representing the state of New Jersey. In 2000, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Prior to serving in the Senate, he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1964 and a professional basketball player with the New York Knicks from 1967 to 1977. In 1982, he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and he has authored six books on American politics, culture and economy, including his latest book The New American Story.

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As Chairman of the NRC, Dr. Jaczko is responsible for daily operations of the agency, and he also has authority for all NRC functions pertaining to a potential emergency involving an NRC licensee. His professional career has been devoted to science, and its use and impact in the public policy arena. He formerly served as appropriations director for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and also served as the Senator's official science policy advisor. He began his Washington, D.C. career as a congressional science fellow in the office of U.S. Rep. Edward Markey. In addition, he has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University teaching science and policy.

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Ms. Rhee is the CEO and Founder of StudentsFirst, a non-profit whose mission is to protect the interest of children in public education and to produce transformative reform in our public schools. She began her career as a Teach for America Corps member in Baltimore, and in 1997 founded The New Teacher Project, which recruits and trains teachers to work in urban schools. From 2007 to 2010, she served as Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools. Under her stewardship, D.C. schools experienced increases in student achievement, a rise in graduation rates and an upswing -- for the first time in decades -- in enrollment.

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Mr. Norquist has been one of most effective issues management strategists in Washington for over two decades. He is President of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request. ATR organizes the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to oppose all tax increases. In the 112th Congress, 236 House members and 41 Senators have taken the pledge. He also chairs the Washington, DC - based “Wednesday Meeting,” a weekly gathering of more than 150 elected officials, political activists, and movement leaders. He serves on the board of directors of the NRA and American Conservative Union, and is Contributing Editor to American Spectator Magazine.

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George Whitesides is the President and CEO of Virgin Galactic, the commercial spaceflight company founded by Sir Richard Branson. He also serves in the same roles for The Spaceship Company, a joint venture between Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites to build commercial spaceships. Most recently, he served as Chief of Staff for the NASA Administrator, where he was the recipient of the agency’s Distinguished Service Medal. Prior to his role at NASA, George served as Executive Director of the National Space Society.

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Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, reporter, columnist and television analyst. He spent 28 years at Newsweek, where he was a longtime senior editor and wrote hundreds of columns and features on a wide variety of subjects. He is an analyst and contributing correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. His 2010 book, "The Promise: President Obama, Year One," went to #4 on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List and was one of the Times' "Notable Books" of the year. "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope," published in 2006, was also a bestseller.

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Bestselling author and a promoter of sustainable development for over 30 years, the Chief Insurgent of the Madrone Project, founder and President of Natural Capitalism, Inc. and Natural Capitalism Solutions, a non-profit in Longmont, Colorado. She was a founding professor at Presidio Graduate School's MBA in Sustainable Management program, has taught at various universities, consulted for many citizens’ groups, governments and corporations. She co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute, which she led for 20 years. She has addressed the World Economic Forum, the U.S. Congress, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and hundreds of major conferences. Named millennium "Hero of the Planet" by Time Magazine, she has received the Right Livelihood Award, the Leadership in Business Award and dozens of other honors.

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Alfred Adask is the leading figure in the very controversial sovereign citizen movement, which takes the position that citizens are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal, state or municipal levels. They especially reject most forms of taxation as illegitimate. He was recently featured on 60 Minutes, which has sparked a great deal of interest in his cause. For 12 years he published AntiShyster Magazine, he is a former candidate for the Texas Supreme Court, and was identified by the Federal government as one of the top dozen anti-government activists during the 1990s.

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Dan Mathews is the irreverent driving force behind the colorful crusades and star-studded stunts carried out by PETA, one of the most high-profile pressure groups of all time. His brainstorms, such as the iconic “Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign, are regularly covered by CNN and TMZ. He has been profiled by such publications as The New York Times and USA Today. He as appeared on Dateline NBC, National Geographic Television, Good Morning America and Larry King Live. “Mathews’ greatest insight is his seemingly intuitive understanding that causes are as much about trendiness as they are about conscience,” wrote New York Magazine.

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Chairs the Board of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and is a Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Mr. Woolsey previously served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently as Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995. His public service has also included appointments as Under Secretary of the Navy, Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Service.

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Currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where his areas of research are U.S. foreign affairs and national security policy. He is the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, as appointed by President George W. Bush. He has also served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs at the State Department, Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice, and General Counsel for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is widely considered to be a possible Republican candidate for the 2012 Presidential race.

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Alan Dershowitz is widely considered one of the great legal minds in the world. He has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He is a Professor of Law at Harvard, and has written over 300 articles that have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Harvard Law Review, and The New Republic. He is also the author of 27 fiction and non-fiction books.

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Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, former Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International in London, former Executive Director of the Rainforest Foundation, and former Senior Program Officer for the Ford Foundation's Human Rights Unit. He is also a popular speaker on the history of human rights in the United States, international justice and the formation of the International Criminal Court, and the need for the protection of economic, social and cultural rights worldwide.

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Doug is a Canadian-British bestselling author of the highly acclaimed book Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World, and the London-based European bureau chief for Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news, and has won the National Newspaper Award, which is Canada's equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize, an unprecedented four times.

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Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and author of the upcoming book The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. He has previously taught at Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy, and served as the deputy director of the State Department’s policy planning staff. His past books include The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy.

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Regular contributor on NBC's Meet the Press and Distinguished Practitioner of Law & Public Policy at UC Berkeley. As the former Governor and Attorney General of Michigan, she was the first female to hold both offices, and she worked relentlessly to diversify Michigan’s economy, strengthen its auto industry, preserve the manufacturing sector, and add new, emerging sectors, such as clean energy. She was a senior member of President Barack Obama's transition team, and is often mentioned as a front runner for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, former Grassroots Director for Greenpeace, Founder and former Executive Director of Power Shift, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating clean energy market breakthroughs. With his roots in local organizing and fundraising, Radford has always specialized in mobilizing people to raise their voices for the planet.

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Former candidate for President of the United States who has also served as Governor of New Mexico, as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as the U.S. Secretary of Energy, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is widely considered one of the world's top experts in international affairs, and has successfully negotiated for the release of political prisoners in North Korea, the Sudan and Iraq. He has recently been appointed as Chairman of APCO Worldwide's Global Political Strategies group.

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With more citations in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations than any other living writer, P.J. O'Rourke has established himself as America's premier political satirist. He has authored 14 best-selling books, including his latest book, Don't Vote—It Just Encourages the Bastard. Both Time and The Wall Street Journal have called him "the funniest writer in America."

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Executive Editor of Time Magazine, Managing Editor of Time.com, former Time Magazine Tokyo Bureau Chief, and former Senior Editor at Money Magazine. Jim is also the author of the highly acclaimed book Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death, and he co-authored the riveting account of the life of Charles Robert Jenkins, The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea.

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Award-winning journalist that currently writes for The Washington Post, New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, in addition to his duties as a political analyst and lead commentator for the Fox News Channel he is a former senior news analyst for National Public Radio, and is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954 to 1965, Enough, and Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary.

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As a two-time candidate for President of the United States, and ten-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul is the leading spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He is the author of several best-selling books, and his new release, Liberty Defined, comes out on April 19, 2011.

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Seven-time Emmy Award winning actor, noted humanitarian and social activist, and former two-term President of the Screen Actors Guild of America. Currently sits on the Board of Directors for Defenders of Wildlife, and as an adviser to The Rosenberg Fund for Children.

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Leader of the largest Islamic mosque in North America, Founder of the Young Muslim Association (YMA), advisor to Clinton, Bush, the State and Defense Departments, CNN commentator and author of American Crescent.

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Social media pioneer and Global Digital and Multi-Media Communications Manager for Ford Motor Company. Popular tech blogger and commentator on emerging technology trends.

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Professor of American History at MIT and author of Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787 to 1788. Maier is considered one of the foremost scholars on the American Revolution.

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Popular television, film and stage actor and life-long environmentalist. Current star of PlanetGreen’s reality show “Living With Ed.” Author of Ed Begley’s Guide to Sustainable Living.

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Emmy-Award winning broadcast journalist, co-host of public radio's The Takeaway, and former correspondent and host for ABC, NBC and NPR.

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Non-violent activist for over 50 years. Founder of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), indicted as one of the Chicago Seven, current founder of the Peace and Justice Resource Center and longtime colleague of Governor Jerry Brown.

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Executive Director of the Big Sur Land Trust and Former Director of the Nature Conservancy.

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Former President of National Geographic Films and producer at Walt Disney Studios and Polygram/Interscope. Acclaimed worlwide expert in popular culture.

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CEO of Natural Logic, Inc., professor at the Presidio graduate School, and author of The Truth About Green Business.

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Executive Editor of the American Heritage and Invention & Technology Magazines, and author of War on the Run: Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier and The Polar Bear Strategy: Reflections on Risk in Modern Life.

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Founder of Man Alive, and bestselling author of Male Menopause and Irritable Male Syndrome.

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President of the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, Emmy Award-winning producer of science films, co-founder of Scientific American Books and former President of W H. Freeman and Company.

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Acclaimed actor best known for his role as B.J. Hunicutt on M*A*S*H, former Co-Chair of Human Rights Watch California, and Founder and President of Death Penalty Focus.

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Founder of the Ocean Revolution and Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences.