Speakers

John O’Sullivan

John O’Sullivan is president and founder of the Danube Institute, international editor of Quadrant magazine, associate editor of the Hungarian Review, and editor-at-large of National Review. Previously he served as a special adviser and speechwriter for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He has also been executive editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a senior editor at The London Times and The Daily Telegraph, editor-in-chief of United Press International, and editor of The National Interest. The founder of the New Atlantic Initiative, he is the author of The President, The Pope, and The Prime Minister and, most recently, Sleepwalking Into Wokeness: How We Got Here. He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1991.

Václav Klaus

Václav Klaus was prime minister of the Czech Republic from 1992 to 1997 and president from 2003 to 2013. As prime minister, he oversaw the “Velvet Divorce” of the Czechoslovak Federation. He studied at the Prague School of Economics and was a researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.  He began his political career in 1989 as finance minister and later served as chairman of the Civic Forum movement. Following his two terms as president, he founded the Václav Klaus Institute. A member of the Mont Pelerin Society, he has published numerous books, including Europe: The Shattering of Illusions, Brave New West: Is It Avoidable? and In Defence of Normalcy.

Hugh Hewitt

Hugh Hewitt is the host of The Hugh Hewitt Show and teaches constitutional law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law. A frequent panelist on FOX News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier, he hosts two daily podcasts and the weekly Hillsdale Dialogues. He worked for six years in the Reagan Administration, including in the White House Counsel’s office and as Special Assistant to two Attorneys General. He was previously a panelist on Meet the Press, a host on MSNBC, and a columnist for The Washington Post. He is the author of several books, including Hugh Hewitt’s Little Red Book: Winning in the Age of Trump.

Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a contributing editor at the Claremont Review of Books, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and a member of the editorial committee of Commentaire. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, the Spectator (London), and numerous other publications. He was previously a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the author of Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West and The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.

Larry P. Arnn

Larry P. Arnn is the 12th president of Hillsdale College. He received his B.A. from Arkansas State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School. He also studied at the London School of Economics and at Oxford University, where he served as director of research for the late Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill. He served as president of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy from 1985-2000. In 2015, he received the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. From October 2020 to January 2021, he served as co-chair of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. He is the author of Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education, The Founders’ Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and What We Risk By Losing It, and Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government.