Featured Speakers

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  William Allen

  Emeritus Dean and Professor, Michigan State University

  • The American Founding
  • George Washington's Legacy
  • An American Future
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  Hadley Arkes

  Ney Professor of Jurisprudence, Amherst College

  • A Natural Law Manifesto
  • The Natural Law Challenge
  • Natural Rights and the Right to Choose
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  Doug Bandow

  Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

  • America's Debt Crisis: The Bills Students Will Be Paying Throughout their Lives
  • What's a Bankrupt Superpower to Do: A Foreign Policy for a Republic
  • Globalization: The Best Way to Help the World's Poor--and Americans
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  Allan Carlson

  Visiting Professor of History, Hillsdale College; President, Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society

  • Who Owns America? Agrarian Responses to Economic Troubles of Yesterday...and Today
  • The Natural Family in an Unnatural Age
  • Servile World: How the 'Business Government'--The 'Loathsome Thing Called Social Service'-- and Other Distributist Nightmares All Came True
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  Patrick J. Deneen

  David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Constitutional Studies, University of Notre Dame

  • Tocqueville and the American Founding Vision
  • Education in the Mass Age: Why Scale Matters
  • Civil Religion and American Democracy
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  Brian Domitrovic

  Chair and Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University

  • The Coming of the Supply-Side Revolution
  • How to Solve Economic Crisis: The Lessons of History
  • Restoring American Prosperity: The Blueprint
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  Anthony Esolen

  Professor of English, Providence College

  • The Dislocation of Knowledge and Love
  • Dante's Divine Comedy: Faces in Paradise
  • Whatever Happened to a Boy's Life?
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  Gary Gregg

  Director, McConnell Center and Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership, University of Louisville

  • Conservative Leadership and the Moral Imagination
  • The Temptation of Washington: The End of the Revolution and the Birth of Constitutional Statesmanship
  • Cato: The Play that Made America
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  Samuel Gregg

  Director of Research, Acton Institute

  • Benedict XVI and the Crisis of Europe
  • The Financial Crisis: Its Causes and the Future
  • Europe: A Continent in Cultural and Economic Crisis
  • Thomas More and the Crisis of Faith and Morals
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  Vigen Guroian

  Professor of Religious Studies in Orthodox Christianity, University of Virginia

  • The Moral Imagination in the Age of Sentiments
  • Why Should Businessmen Read Great Literature?
  • Dorm Brothel: The New Debauchery and the Colleges That Let It Happen
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  Amy Kass

  Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

  • Sympathy, Love, and Marriage: Effective Reform in 'Middlemarch'
  • The Homecoming of Penelope
  • Autobiography and American Identity
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  E. Christian Kopff

  Associate Director, Honors Program, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
  • The Traditionalism of the American Founding
  • Grammar: The Basis of Thinking, Persuading and Creating
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  Peter Lawler

  Dana Professor of Government, Berry College

  • Tocqueville and Individualism
  • Indefinite Longevity and the Birth Dearth
  • Walker Percy
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  Ted McAllister

  Edward L. Gaylord Chair, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University

  • The Problem of History in America
  • Is Conservatism Possible in Liberal America?
  • Modern America and the Crisis of Authority
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  Wilfred McClay

  SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

  • The Persistence of Guilt in the Modern World
  • Why Place Matters
  • Tocqueville's Dilemma....and Ours
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  Susan McWilliams

  Associate Professor, Pomona College

  • Redeeming Democracy in America
  • What Happened to the Obama Generation?
  • On Hookup Culture
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  Jennifer Roback Morse

  President, Ruth Institute

  • The Definition of Marriage: The Importance of Marriage
  • Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village
  • Smart Sex: Finding Lifelong Love in a Hook-up World
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  George H. Nash

  Senior Fellow, Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal

  • Reconsidering FDR, World War II, and the Cold War: The Perspective of Herbert Hoover
  • Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism
  • Ronald Reagan's Vision of America
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  Gerald O'Driscoll

  Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

  • The Fed and Monetary Policy
  • The Economic Crisis and Its Aftermath
  • The European Debt Crisis
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  R. J. Pestritto

  Graduate Dean and Associate Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College

  • Progressivism and the Origins of Big Government in America
  • How Today's Bureaucratic State Undermines the Constitution
  • Woodrow Wilson and the Origins of Modern Liberalism
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  R. R. Reno

  Editor, First Things

  • Piety: An Intellectual Virtue
  • Resisting the Empire of Desire
  • Conservative Cosmopolitanism
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  Bruce S. Thornton

  Professor of Classics and Humanities, California State University, Fresno; Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

  • Appeasement and Obama's Foreign Policy
  • The Greek Roots of the American Order
  • The Collapse of 'EU'-topia
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  Bradley Watson

  Philip M. McKenna Chair, Dept. of Politics; Co-Director, Center for Political & Economic Thought, St. Vincent College

  • Progressivism and the U.S. Constitution
  • Civic Education and the University
  • Courts and the Culture Wars
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  Thomas E. Woods Jr.

  Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute

  • A Politically Incorrect Gallop Through American History
  • 'Without Our Wise Overlords We'd All Be Dead': The Propaganda that Justifies Big Government, and How to Refute It
  • State Nullification: Jefferson's Solution to Today's Problems