Faculty

Adam J. White

Hoover Institute, Stanford University

Adam J. White is a scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and director of the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School. He writes widely on the administrative state -- including matters of religion and state, financial regulation, and energy policy -- on the judiciary and the Supreme Court, and on the U.S. Constitution.

Mr. White was recently appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States, a federal advisory board focused on improving federal agencies' practices. He also serves in leadership capacities in the administrative law groups of the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, the premier American legal organization dedicated to promoting individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law.

His articles appear in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, and other publications, and he is a contributing editor for National Affairs, City Journal, and The New Atlantis. He previously practiced law at Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC and Baker Botts LLP, litigating regulatory and constitutional issues. After graduating from the University of Iowa and Harvard Law School, he clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Adam Keiper

Adam Keiper is executive editor at The Bulwark. He is also contributing editor to National Affairs, American Purpose, and Current. For more than a decade, he was the editor of The New Atlantis, a quarterly journal about science, technology, and society that he co-founded in 2003; he remains a senior editor at The New Atlantis. He was the editor of the Weekly Standard’s Books & Arts section from mid-2017 until the magazine’s closure in December 2018. He has worked closely with hundreds of writers, including Nobel, Pulitzer, and Templeton Prize winners and bestselling authors, on projects ranging from short articles to books. His own research, writing, and public speaking is usually at the intersection of science and politics—touching on such subjects as space exploration, nanotechnology, and brain implants. In 2016, he testified before Congress on automation and employment. He has a B.A. in political science from American University.

Alan Rubenstein

Alan Rubenstein was educated in Liberal Arts at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, and also at Georgetown University. He was a senior consultant for the President’s Council on Bioethics and currently serves as Hanson Scholar of Ethics at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. At Carleton, he teaches ethical thought through close reading of great literature of the West—in particular, Plato, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. He is currently Senior Director of University Programs for the Tikvah Fund. His published essays have focused on the philosopher Hans Jonas, the Hebrew Bible, and Judaism in middle America. He is married and a father of three children.