Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of strategy, economics, ethics, and public policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He is the author of seventeen books, including Cracks in the Ivory Tower (2019), When All Else Fails (2018), In Defense of Openness (2018), and Against Democracy (2016).

Samuel Freeman is the Avalon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Liberalism and Distributive Justice (2018), Justice and the Social Contract (2007), and Rawls (2007). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Rawls (2003), Rawls's Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy (2008), and John Rawls's Collected Papers (1999). He is the editor of the Oxford Political Philosophy Series and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.