February 27-28, 2024: Conservativism in America
“The state of society and the Constitution in America are democratic, but there has been no democratic revolution. They were pretty well as they now are when they first arrived in the land. That is a very important point” (Democracy in America).
PART 1 – FEBRUARY 27, 2024 – 6:30-8:00PM – Watkins Room, Trone Student Center
PART 2 – FEBRUARY 28, 2024 – 5:00-6:30PM -Watkins Room, Trone Student Center
Public Intellectuals:
David Brooks (New York Times)
David Brooks writes for The New York Times and is a commentator for PBS NewsHour. He has also worked for The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, Newsweek, and The Atlantic Monthly. He earned his BA from the University of Chicago. Brooks is the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense. His third book, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, was a No. 1 New York Times best seller. He is also the author of The Road to Character; The Second Mountain; and most recently, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. Brooks is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Helen Andrews (The American Conservative)
Helen Andrews is a senior editor at The American Conservative. She earned her BA in Religious Studies from Yale University. She is the author of Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. Previously she was managing editor of the Washington Examiner magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, First Things, The Claremont Review of Books, Hedgehog Review, and many others. In 2017-18 she was a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.
Matthew Continetti (AEI)
Matthew Continetti is the director of domestic policy studies and the inaugural Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He earned his BA in History from Columbia University. His work is focused on American political thought and history, with a particular focus on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement in the 20th century. A prominent journalist, analyst, author, and intellectual historian of the right, he was the founding editor and the editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon. He is also a contributing editor at National Review and a columnist for Commentary Magazine. He has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. He is the author of three books, including The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine; The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star; and, most recently, The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism.
Matthew T. Martens (Partner at WilmerHale)
Matthew T. Martens is a trial lawyer and partner at the international law firm of WilmerHale in Washington, DC. He earned his JD at the University of North Carolina School of Law and an MS at Dallas Theological Seminary. He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the US Supreme Court and also as a political appointee in the criminal division of the US Justice Department under Attorney General John Ashcroft. He has spent the bulk of his twenty-seven-year legal career practicing criminal law both as a federal prosecutor and as a defense attorney. He is the author most recently of Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal.
Photos from Part 2 of Conservatism in America
