DAVID WURMSER, Director, Center for Security Policy’s Program on Global Anti-Semitism, former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander

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JOHN ELLIS, Professor Emeritus of German Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, Author, "Literature Lost" and "The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done," Founder, the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics

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CON COUGHLIN, Executive Foreign Editor, The Daily Telegraph, Author, "Saddam: His Rise & Fall"

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JAMES FANELL, retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute

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