Charles Kesler interviews Mark Blitz on contemporary liberalism vs. natural rights; virtue and responsibility; excellence and education; self-government vs. the administrative state; and lessons from Reagan.
Conservatism in the Trump Era: American Statecraft
The Claremont Institute hosted "Conservatism in the Trump Era," a two-part panel discussing the future of conservatism. Panel 1: Conservativism in the Trump Era: American Statecraft.
Angelo Codevilla is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University.
David Goldman is president of Macrostrategy LLC, a financial consulting firm. He writes the “Spengler” column for Asia Times Online and the “Spengler” blog at PJ Media, and is the author of How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too) (Regnery).
Mark Helprin is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute who writes the regular “Parthian Shot” column for the Claremont Review of Books.
Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and editor-at-large of the American Interest magazine.
Rebeccah Heinrichs (moderator), is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute where she specializes in nuclear deterrence and missile defense.
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Charles Kesler, Mark Lilla, Heather Mac Donald, and Ryan Williams examine the political and moral threat of identity politics and the means necessary to reinstate and protect the motto on which our republic stands: e pluribus unum.
Charles Kesler interviews Christopher DeMuth on civil rights, neoconservatives, and problems without solutions; the rise of the administrative state; fighting the administrative state; the coming crisis of the national debt and deficit problem; and new institutions and the think tank phenomenon.
This panel including Charles Kesler, Adam White, John Fonte, and Ryan Williams discusses President Trump’s use of executive power.