Moira Gleason recently graduated from Hillsdale College in Michigan with a degree in English literature and a minor in journalism. She served as executive editor of The Hillsdale Collegian, Hillsdale’s student newspaper, and her work has been featured in National Review, where she previously interned through The Fund for American Studies.

Anatoly Grablevsky earned a bachelor’s degree and master of philosophy in classics from the University of Cambridge. He is a Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion and previously taught art history at Adelphi University and the Pratt Institute.

Adam Pack graduated from Georgetown University, where he received a degree in international politics and a minor in Chinese. He is a congressional reporter for Fox News Digital and is an alumnus of the TFAS Media Accelerator Program. Pack previously wrote for the Daily Caller News Foundation, where he was a recipient of the newsroom’s 2025 Journalist of the Year award.

China’s Capture of American Minds 

Frannie Block is an investigative reporter at The Free Press, where she covers the forces shaping American life, from foreign influence in U.S. politics and national security to institutional overreach and due process failures. She began her career covering breaking news at The Des Moines Register.

The Building of America: Structure, Infrastructure, and the Soul of the Nation

Faith Bottum, Rago ’21, is an assistant editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she was also the 2021–22 Joseph Rago Memorial Fellow for Excellence in Journalism. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Commonweal, The Federalist, University Bookman, the Free Beacon and other publications. Faith graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines with a bachelor of science in civil engineering.

Assimilating Apart: Becoming American in Times of Fracture

Gil Guerra ’20 is a senior policy analyst for immigration and security at the Niskanen Center and a contributing writer at The Dispatch, where he writes on immigration and Latin American politics. His work has appeared in The Dispatch, City Journal, Foreign Policy, Americas Quarterly and The Hill. Gil was also a 2020-21 TFAS Public Policy Fellow. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science from Swarthmore College and a master’s degree in global security and borders from Queen’s University Belfast, where he was a US-Ireland Alliance Scholar.

Gen Z Conservatism: Movement or Mirage?

Mary Julia Koch is an associate editor for The Wall Street Journal Opinion’s Free Expression newsletter, where she writes about culture and politics. Previously, she was a staff reporter at The New York Sun, and her work has appeared in The Free Press, Air Mail and The Republic. She graduated from Harvard College in 2023, where she was a John Harvard Scholar and served as editor-in-chief of the student weekly newspaper.

Follow the Science vs. Do Your Own Research: The Future of Public Health in an Era of Distrust

Grayson Logue ’24 is a staff writer at The Dispatch where he covers politics and policy ranging from public health to immigration. Prior to The Dispatch, he worked in political risk consulting and as an assistant editor at Providence Magazine. Grayson studied politics, philosophy and economics at The King’s College and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in history at the University of Edinburgh. He and his wife, Audrey, live in Philadelphia. Grayson is an alumnus of TFAS European Journalism Institute in 2024.

Cracked Foundations: How American Philanthropy Lost Its Way

John Sailer is a senior fellow and director of higher education policy at the Manhattan Institute. His work regularly appears in The Wall Street Journal and City Journal. He previously worked for the National Association of Scholars.

City Without Children

Liz Wolfe is an associate editor at Reason, where she writes the daily Reason Roundup newsletter and makes short documentaries. Her work has been published in outlets such as Playboy, Pirate Wires, The Atlantic and National Review. From 2023 to 2025, she co-hosted the interview show, Just Asking Questions. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and has two sons (one deceased).

Ashley Dowdney ’24, ’25 recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she double majored in classics and peace, war and defense. She is an alumna of the TFAS Academic Internship Program on the International Affairs track and a Campus Transparency Fellow. Previously, she interned at the Hudson Institute and the American Enterprise Institute. On campus, Dowdney founded UNC’s Alexander Hamilton Society chapter, held fellowships in the School of Civic Life and Leadership, served as a senator in the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies and received a Chancellor’s Award in Ancient Greek translation. She previously interned at The Dispatch and participated in Hertog War Studies.

Daniel Idfresne recently graduated from Syracuse University and is from Brooklyn, New York. He is a senior contributor at Young Voices, where he writes on politics, public policy and culture. His work has appeared in RealClearPolitics, Newsweek, Reason, the Washington Examiner and the New York Post. In addition to his writing, he has appeared as a political commentator on Fox News and Newsmax.

Mark Sawyer has most recently worked as an open source investigator and intelligence analyst covering Eastern Europe, Africa, and the United States. He has investigated coordinated Russian influence campaigns, online narratives impacting public trust in election integrity, and threats against election officials. Previously, he designed and managed taxpayer-funded programs to support democracy in Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus. Mark previously participated in the TFAS Media Accelerator Fellowship, TFAS European Journalism Institute, and Humanities DC’s Community Journalism Program. He is a proud graduate of Wheaton College (IL) and a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. (IRE).

The Wall Street Journal has called him the “best interviewer in broadcast business news.” Financial author James Glassman went so far as to write, “the best interviewer on TV, period.” And noting Cavuto’s approach to feature both Democrats and Republicans along with bulls and bears on his shows, Jon Friedman of MarketWatch, called him “the very soul of the new Fox Business Network.”

As senior vice president, anchor and managing editor, Neil Cavuto oversaw all business news content for both Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. He not only anchored programs on both networks, but has handled breaking news specials on everything from financial to natural disasters.

His Your World market-closing broadcast on FNC was the most watched financial news program in America for nearly two decades. His weekend wrap-up, Cavuto on Business, was the second highest rated. Cavuto also oversaw Bulls & Bears, Forbes on Fox, and Cashin’ In. By 2018 all these shows were combined into one live two-hour bloc, anchored by Cavuto every Saturday and incorporating the latest breaking general and business news and soon becoming among the most watched news programs on television. From 2018 to his departure from Fox in late 2024, Cavuto helmed three shows across both Fox News and Fox Business six days per week, totaling some 18 hours — a first for any anchor anywhere.

Prior to coming to Fox News for the launch of the network back in August 1996, Cavuto anchored and hosted more than three hours of live programming daily for CNBC, including the network’s highest-rated show, Market Wrap. He also served as a contributor to NBC’s Today Show and NBC News at Sunrise. Before that, Cavuto was the New York Bureau Chief for PBS Television’s Nightly Business Report and a Washington Bureau Chief for Investment Age Magazine.

Cavuto has covered some of the most important business and political stories of our time, including the 9-11 attacks, the 2008 financial meltdown, the 1987 stock market crash, and both Persian Gulf Wars. He has reported first-hand on the economic policies of every American president since Jimmy Carter, and covered every major corporate scandal, from Enron to Tyco. In fact, Cavuto’s live prison interview with former Tyco Chief Executive Dennis Kozlowski was a business television first. Cavuto also has moderated presidential debates for Fox News Channel and Fox Business – the only anchor to do so for both a news channel and a business channel.

Yet with all his financial experience, when Cavuto decided to write his first book, he chose not to write about business at all, but about heroes who had overcome enormous hardship. Inspired by his own battle with cancer, and his ongoing fight with Multiple Sclerosis, that book, More Than Money: True Stories of People Who Learned Life’s Ultimate Lesson stunned the publishing world in 2004 and became a New York Times bestseller, as did his second book of reflections, Your Money or Your Life less than two years later.

Jan Crawford is the chief legal correspondent for CBS News and a recognized authority on the Supreme Court. Her 2007 book, “Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for the Control of the United States Supreme Court” gained widespread critical acclaim and was an instant New York Times Bestseller.

She started covering the Court in 1994 for the Chicago Tribune and served as the Supreme Court analyst for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. She then became a law and political correspondent for all ABC News programs before joining CBS in January 2010.

In her three-plus decades on the Supreme Court beat, Crawford has covered all major judicial appointments and confirmation hearings. She has interviewed nine justices on camera, including five of the Court’s current members and retired Justice Stephen Breyer. She conducted the first-ever network interviews with Chief Justice John Roberts and the late Justice John Paul Stevens.

Crawford began her journalism career at the Tribune in 1987 and started covering legal affairs in 1993, after her graduation from the University of Chicago Law School. The newspaper awarded her its highest award for her role covering the presidential election of 2000 and the legal battles over the White House. She won the same prize for her 13-part series on the post-civil rights South, a project that brought her back to her native Alabama. Her numerous other journalism awards include the Edward R. Murrow and ABA Silver Gavel Awards, as part of CBS Evening News coverage of the landmark Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade.

Crawford graduated from the University of Alabama in 1987. She is a member of the university’s College of Communication and Information Sciences Hall of Fame. She has taught journalism at American University and frequently speaks about the Court to universities, law schools, legal organizations and civic groups across the country. She is a member of the New York Bar. She has four children and lives in Washington D.C.