Biography
Megan McArdle is a Washington Post columnist and the author of "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success. She has worked for numerous publications, including The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and Bloomberg View. McArdle has also published book reviews and opinion pieces in the New York Post, The New York Sun, Reason, The Guardian, and Salon.
Awards
Josh Blackman holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has authored three books, and his latest, An Introduction to Constitutional Law, was a top five bestseller on Amazon. He is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook.
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