Upcoming Events
We’ve gone virtual!
Each year, National Review Institute hosts dozens of events across the country to provide opportunities for our supporters and friends to engage with NR‘s top talent. Due to current circumstances, we’ve postponed all in-person events, but want to ensure that our friends and supporters continue to have access to the critical work put forth by NRI fellows and leading conservative thinkers. This is even more important in these challenging times! We hope that you will join us for a webinar listed below!
March 31, 2021 2:00 PM ET | Virtual Event: Remembering William F. Buckley Jr. and Other Characters, Mostly Admirable with George Weigel co-hosted by Ignatius Press
REGISTER HERE
APRIL 12, 2021 6:00 PM ET | Virtual Book Club featuring George Orwell’s essential writings For General Members, Please email events@nrinstitute.org to register
APRIL 19, 2021 6:00 PM ET | Virtual Book Club featuring George Orwell’s essential writings For General Members, Please email events@nrinstitute.org to register
APRIL 23-24, 2021 | NRI On Campus: Young Conservatives of Texas Conference
APRIL 24, 2021 9:00 AM CT | NRI On Campus: “Real News” Media Panel featuring Daniel Tenreiro hosted by the Young Conservatives of Texas
APRIL 26,2021 6:00 PM ET | Virtual Book Club featuring George Orwell’s essential writings For General Members, Please email events@nrinstitute.org to register
If you are interested in attending a donor event and would like to support NRI, please contact your local development officer.
Stephanie Cates, Southwest: stephanie@nrinstitute.org, 480.286.2886
Chris Ciancimino, Midwest and South: chrisc@nrinstitute.org, 414.349.4543
Alexandra Rosenberg, Northeast: alexandra@nrinstitute.org, 920.327.3822
Jason Wise, Northwest: jason@nrinstitute.org, 203.273.3628
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About NRI Events
WFB Jr. Prize
For his entire life, Bill Buckley sought to preserve and buttress the foundations of our free society. To honor his achievement and inspire others, NRI’s Board of Trustees created the William F. Buckley Jr. Prizes for Leadership in Political Thought and Leadership in Supporting Liberty. Notable public intellectuals, philanthropists, and leaders in the conservative movement attend to show support for our honorees, Bill Buckley’s enduring legacy, and the National Review mission.
Ideas Summit
NRI’s Ideas Summit is a biennial conference that brings together leading public intellectuals, conservative leaders and policymakers, and philanthropists to critically assess the standing and future of conservatism in an intimate setting that fosters substantive dialogue. These Summits combine the best aspects of NRI’s early regional conferences and post-election conferences while incorporating new features that enable the Institute to have an even greater impact in strengthening the conservative movement.
Regional Seminars
NRI began these half-day Regional Seminars in 2018 to bring NR’s best talent out around the country to directly engage our friends, allies, and supporters. The Regional Seminars complement the Institute’s biennial Ideas Summit, which is held in Washington, D.C., and brings together conservatives from all corners of America. In 2018, the seminars focused on the legacy of William F. Buckley Jr., commemorating the ten-year anniversary of his passing. This year, the theme was “Perspectives on America Today and the Importance of Culture.”
Regional Partnership Events
Part of NRI’s mission is to “draw from and support other conservative institutions.” In that spirit, in December 2013, NRI began this initiative to co-sponsor events with state-based think tanks, civic groups, and other educational organizations across the United States. National Review Institute partners with organizations to co-host regional events across the country that feature NR’s top talent. By co-sponsoring these events, NRI and local groups are able to meet each other’s friends and supporters and introduce them to NR writers. NRI’s Regional Partnership Events program aims to both strengthen partner groups and build a larger National Review community around the country. It is a strategic—and mutually beneficial—relationship that invigorates the conservative movement at the grassroots level.
NRI On Campus
William F. Buckley Jr. understood how vitally important young people are to the future of our country, and he frequently spoke on college campuses throughout his illustrious career to promote the principles of classical liberalism and limited government. It was Buckley’s unyielding dedication to these principles that united the freedom movement and launched conservatism back into the political mainstream. In this spirit, National Review Institute brings the National Review mission to college campuses, where it provides opportunities for college students to learn about the principles and ideas of a free society and empowers them to “stand athwart history.” Through events, social media, and disseminating NR magazine, NRI reaches today’s students with timeless conservative ideas rooted in Buckley’s own powerful campus legacy.
Debates
In 1966, Buckley took his conservative message beyond the pages of National Review and directly to the American public. Through Firing Line, for over three decades he influenced the millions of Americans who tuned in weekly for intelligent discussion—of key events, of core principles, and of leading policy makers—between powerful voices on the Left and Right. In partnership with the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, NRI celebrated the 50th anniversary of Firing Line and the Buckley legacy in three cities: Dallas, New York, and Washington, D.C. Our kickoff partnership event was held at Harlan Crow’s new Debate Chamber on the Old Parkland campus located in Dallas. True to Buckley’s legacy, this series of events provided a forum for civilized debate and discussion—lessons that important legacy still teaches us today. We are pleased to continue our partnership with Old Parkland.
Past 2021 NRI Events
March 25, 2021 | Virtual Event: The Equality Act – A War on Women? WATCH HERE
March 24, 2021 | Virtual Event: Fake, Fake News? A Conversation with Babylon Bee CEO, Seth Dillon. This event was for General Members.
March 19, 2021 | Virtual Event: I Am With You: Lessons of Hope and Courage in Times of Crisis (Loyola Press, January 2021), with New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Kathryn Lopez. WATCH HERE
Mach 16, 2021 | Virtual Event: St. Joseph, Man of the Year. (St. Joseph’s day was March 19) A conversation between popular author and itinerant preacher Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P., who is also the former editor of Magnificat, and Kathryn Jean Lopez. WATCH HERE
March 11, 2021 | Virtual Event: The devastating power of teacher unions co-hosed by the Illinois Policy Institute
March 10, 2021 | Virtual Event: Monthly 1955 Society Member Call “The Anti-American Iconoclasm of the Statue-Topplers.” with Richard Brookhiser
March 8, 2021 | Virtual Event: Was the Pope’s Iraq Visit a Game-Changer? With Luma Simms, Robert Nicholson, and Kathryn Jean Lopez. WATCH HERE
February 24, 2021 | Virtual Event: Evaluating the Impact of President Biden’s Energy Policy with Kevin Hassett. Co-hosed by the Rio Grande Foundation WATCH HERE
February 18, 2021 | Virtual Ideas Summit Missed the show? You can click here to access the program with a tax-deductible donation of $25.
February 10, 2021 | Virtual Event: Escape from Silicon Valley – How Miami mayor Francis Suarez is attracting businesses from the Bay Area with Daniel Tenreiro and Mayor Francis Suarez
February 3, 2021 | Virtual Event: What Does it Mean to be Pro-Life? Co-hosed by The Institute for Human Ecology (IHE) at The Catholic University of America
February 1, 2021 | Virtual Event: COVID Lockdowns and Unjust Religious Discrimination. Co-hosted with The Heritage Foundation. WATCH HERE
January 27, 2021 | Virtual Event: Reframing End-of-life Care During COVID. Co-hosted by the Catholic Information Center. WATCH HERE
January 26, 2021 | Virtual Event: What Does It Mean to Be Human? A Conversation with O. Carter Snead. Co-hosted by the Sheen Center. WATCH HERE
January 25, 2021 | Virtual Event: Book Club featuring Douglas Murray’s Madness of Crowds | $250 + Donor Event |LEARN MORE HERE
January 18, 2021 | Virtual Event: The Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement | WATCH HERE
January 18, 2021 | Virtual Event: Book Club featuring Douglas Murray’s Madness of Crowds | $250 + Donor Event | LEARN MORE HERE
January 12, 2021 | Virtual Event: The Economy and Student Loan Forgiveness co-hosted with Young America’s Foundation and Young Voices | NRI On Campus Event
January 11, 2021| Virtual Event: Book Club featuring Douglas Murray’s Madness of Crowds | $250 + Donor Event | LEARN MORE HERE
