The Man Who Built a Movement

Sam Tanenhaus is the former editor-in-chief of both The New York Times Book Review and the Week in Review and was a Times writer at large. He has also been a contributing editor and writer at Vanity Fair as well as the U.S. writer at large for the British monthly Prospect. Tanenhaus is currently a contributing writer to The Washington Post.

Tanenhaus’ feature articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Esquire, Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and more.

Tanenhaus’ books include “Whittaker Chambers: A Biography,” which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and “The Death of Conservatism.” His new book, “Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America,” was published in June 2025.

As the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Peter Loewen leads the largest and most academically diverse college at Cornell University.

Before coming to Cornell, Dr. Loewen spent 14 years at the University of Toronto in numerous roles, most recently as Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and as the Robert Vipond Distinguished Professor in Democracy in the Department of Political Science. He was also the director of the Policy, Elections, and Representation Lab (PEARL); associate director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society; a senior fellow at Massey College; and a fellow with the Public Policy Forum, a Canadian think tank.

Dr. Loewen’s research centers on the future of democratic societies and the politics of technological change. He has edited four books and published in leading journals of political science and other disciplines.