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Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald argued that the pursuit of racial equity by progressives is leading to mediocrity in American businesses and institutions. This event was hosted…

Harvard professor Joseph Henrich discussed his 2022 Hayek Book Prize-winning work, The WEIRDest People in the World, about how and why Western democratic societies prospered. The F.A. Hayek …

Science writer John Tierney argued that human brains are wired to focus on what is bad rather than what is good.

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Heather Mac Donald argued that diverse thinking is being challenged at the collegiate level and called for a return to open-minded inquiry and expression.

Economists, authors, and journalists talked about the increase in long-term unemployment and the ways jobs, training and wages in the U.S. could change in the future. Topics included past te…

Oren Cass presented findings from his recent study “Overheated: How Flawed Analyses Overestimate the Costs of Climate Change.” He served as a domestic policy adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 pr…

Political scholars and commentators examined the 1965 New York City mayoral campaign of the late William F. Buckley. This book launch event at the Union League Club celebrated the 50th anniv…

William Voegeli talked about his book, The Pity Party: A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion, in which he takes a critical look at liberal compassion. In his book, he argues th…

National Review editors Richard Brookhiser and Richard Lowry and Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell participated in a panel discussion on the publication of William F. Buckley’s fina…

Italian-born economist Luigi Zingales warns that the U.S. economy is becoming a system of crony capitalism in which government support for big business has overwhelmed the support for a free…