The Philadelphia Society's 47th National Meeting
April 1-3, 2011
The Adolphus Hotel
Dallas, Texas

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Friday

The Perils of Progressivism

Chairman: Peter Schramm, Executive Director, Ashbrook Center, MP3
Invocation: Mrs. Barbara Elliott, MP3
Official Welcome: Former Mayor of Dallas, Tom Leppert, MP3
Keynote Address, Jonah Goldberg, Author, Liberal Fascism, MP3

Saturday

10:00 – 11:30 Progress and Progressivism
Chairman: William Murchison, Baylor University, MP3
Robert C. Koons, University of Texas, Progress: Scientific and Sentimental, MP3, PDF
Richard M. Gamble, Hillsdale College, America's Progressive Identity and French Ideologues, MP3, PDF
Jay Langdale, Andrew College, Progress in the Nineteenth Century, MP3, PDF

Luncheon: Solving the Toughest Problems Without Government
12:00 – 1:30 Chairman: George H. Nash, Historian, MP3
Dedication of Luncheon to Memory of Mel Bradford and W.H. Hutt: Bill Campbell, Secretary, MP3, PDF
Forrest McDonald Pays Tribute to Mel Bradford, MP3, PDF
Solving the Toughest Problems Without Government
Introduction of Ambassador Glassman, George Nash, MP3
Ambassador James K. Glassman, Founding Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute, MP3

2:00 – 3:30 The Progressive Assault on the Little Platoons of Family, Church, and School
Chairman: W.W. Caruth, The Liberty Institute, MP3
Kelly Shackelford, President, The Liberty Institute, MP3
Thomas Pauken, Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, MP3
John C. Goodman, National Center for Policy Analysis, MP3

3:30 – 5:00 Progressivism at the National Level
Chairman: Wilfred M. McClay, MP3
Matthew Spalding, The Heritage Foundation, Progressivism and the Constitution, MP3
Bradley C.S. Watson, Saint Vincent College, Progressivism and the Supreme Court, MP3
Ronald Pestritto, Hillsdale College, Progressivism and Politics, MP3

6:30-9:00 Dinner Hosted by the Claremont Institute
Master of Ceremonies, Brian Kennedy, President, The Claremont Institute, MP3
Invocation: Kenneth Blackwell, Former Secretary of State, Ohio, MP3
Charles Kesler, Editor, Claremont Review of Books, MP3
Respondent: Thomas G. West, University of Dallas, MP3, PDF

8:45-11:00 Sunday Breakfast
Progressivism and the Younger Generation
Chairman: Mark Henrie, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, MP3, PDF
Tiffany Jones Miller, University of Dallas, MP3
Carey Roberts, Arkansas Tech University, MP3
Scott Segrest, United States Military Academy, West Point, MP3, PDF
J. David Alvis, Wofford College, MP3
Joseph Postell, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, MP3