What is Conservatism?

September 21-22, 2018

Fort Worth, Texas

Program

Friday, September 21

4:00 - 6:00 Registration

5:30 - 6:00 Fellowship Orientation

6:00 - 7:00 Reception

7:00 - 9:00 Dinner

Chairman: Christopher Long, President, The Philadelphia Society

Jonah Goldberg, National Review Institute Fellow

Saturday, September 22

7:30 – 8:45 Networking Breakfast Buffet

9:00 – 10:30 What Should Conservatism Conserve--and What Not?

Chairman: Neal Freeman, The Blackwell Corporation

Daniel Oliver, Education & Research Institute

Matthew Spalding

Donald Devine, The Fund for American Studies

10:45 – 12:00 Liberalism, Populism, and the Future of Conservatism

Chairman: Allen Mendenhall, Jones Law School, Faulkner University

Michael Anton, The Kirby Center, Hillsdale College

Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute

12:00 – 1:15 Buffet Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 The Conservative Search for Identity

Chairman: George Nash, The Russell Kirk Center

Gladden Pappin, University of Dallas

Sam Karnick, Heartland Institute

3:15 –4:45 Why I Am or Am Not a Conservative

Chairman: Daniel McCarthy, The Fund for American Studies & Modern Age

Helen Andrews, The Fund for American Studies (Novak Fellow)

Max Borders, Social Evolution

Avik Roy, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity

5:00 – 6:00 Divided We Fall: The Case for Unity Amidst Diversity

Chairman: Wilfred M. McClay, University of Oklahoma

Luder G. Whitlock, Jr., CNL Charitable Foundation