Dr. Wilfred McClay, intellectual historian and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum, is currently the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma and the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Dr. McClay also serves as a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. Dr. McClay was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities in 2002 and served for eleven years. He is the author, most recently, of the single volume history of the United States entitled Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (2019). For his book The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994), Dr. McClay received the Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians, given annually to the best book in American intellectual history.