Donald Trump exploded the modern American conservative movement (consisting of an uneasy alliance of traditionalism, libertarianism, neo-conservatism, and the religious right) and recreated the Republican party in his own image. After Trump, whither conservatism? Join us as prominent conservative public intellectuals discuss their visions forward.

Megan McArdle describes herself as a “right-leaning libertarian.” She is a columnist for The Washington Post, and her work has appeared in outlets including the New York Times, the Economist, the Atlantic, Newsweek, The Guardian, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. She is also the author of The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success. She earned her BA in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Joshua Mitchell is a leading public intellectual of the New Right. He is a professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and was Provost, Rector, and Acting Chancellor of The American University of Iraq – Sulaimani. He is the author of five books, including, most recently, American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time (2020). He has also published numerous articles in both scholarly outlets and on contemporary American politics and helped found the journal American Greatness. He is an avid conservationist, committed to stewardship on his small farm on the Eastern Shore, and is working on the development of the next generation of solar-electric sailboats. He has a BA from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sociology from the University of Washington, and an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago.