Essay | Summer 2026
The council is led by M. Anthony Mills, Director of the Center for Technology, Science, and Energy at the American Enterprise Institute, and a New Atlantis contributor.
Its members are:
Ian Banks
Director of Science and Innovation, Foundation for American Innovation
Brian J. A. Boyd
U.S. Faith Liaison, Future of Life Institute
Joseph Chapa
Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force
Mariele Courtois
Assistant Professor of Theology, Benedictine College
Matthew B. Crawford
Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,
University of Virginia
Bill Drexel
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Matt Elmore
AI Ethics and Evaluation
Specialist, Duke University School of Medicine
Nita Farahany
Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy, Duke Law School
Brian Patrick Green
Director of Technology Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied
Ethics, Santa Clara University
Ben Hurlbut
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Yuval Levin
Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, American Enterprise Institute
M. Anthony Mills
Director of the Center for Technology, Science, and Energy, American Enterprise Institute
Catherine Moon
Arthur J. Ennis Teaching Scholar, Villanova University
Christine Rosen
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Walter Scheirer
Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Professor of Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Paul Scherz
Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Ari Schulman
Editor, The New Atlantis
O. Carter Snead
Charles E. Rice Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Thomas A. Stapleford
Associate Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame
In The New Atlantis
Essay | Summer 2026