Christopher Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy and the Peter McCausland Chair in Civic Engagement at the University of South Carolina. He has published over 125 articles in journals and edited collections, and a similar number of popular essays in venues such as Public Discourse, First Things, and National Review. He is the author of Lying and Christian Ethics and Killing and Christian Ethics, and is co-author of The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession (with Dr. Farr Curlin) and Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (with Robert P. George). In 2019-20, he served as a Commissioner on the State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights. He has twice been a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University, and in 2024-25 was a Visiting Fellow at the DeNicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. Tollefsen serves as the Executive Director of the South Carolina Center for American Civic Leadership and Public Discourse.
Marc LiVecche received his PhD from the University of Chicago and is the McDonald Distinguished Scholar in Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy. He is the author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury (OUP, 2021) and is finishing up the manuscript for Moral Horror: A Just War Defense of the Bombing of
Hiroshima. He is an adjunct professor of ethics at the US Naval Academy, where he also previously served as a Stockdale Fellow and as a Research Scholar in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law. He is also a non-resident research scholar at the US Naval War College.