This year's conference is scheduled for August 17-18, 2026.
Register through Eventbrite by clicking here.
You can be added to the conference email distribution list by sending a request to: [email protected].
The best hotel arrangements are at the Hampton Inn Skyline.
Another convenient hotel option is the Holiday Inn Express.
Those scheduled to present include:
Register through Eventbrite by clicking here.
You can be added to the conference email distribution list by sending a request to: [email protected].
The best hotel arrangements are at the Hampton Inn Skyline.
Another convenient hotel option is the Holiday Inn Express.
Those scheduled to present include:
- Mollie Hemingway, Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist, Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College, Fox News contributor, and best-selling author
- Scott Yenor, Chair of the American Citizenship Initiative at The Heritage Foundation and Professor of Political Science at Boise State University
- Carol Swain, former Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University
- Alex Newman, president of Liberty Sentinel Media
- Noelle Mering, Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in the Life and Family Initiative and columnist for the Catholic Herald
- Korey Maas, Chairman and Associate Professor of History at Hillsdale College
- Nathaniel Pullmann, Headmaster of Redeemer Classical School
To view presentations from prior years, click here.
Tentative schedule:
Monday, August 17
11:00 - Registration
12:00 - Matins
12:45 - Break (light snacks provided)
1:00 - Presentations and Q&As with intermittent breaks
6:30 - Evening meal (provided)
Tuesday, August 18
8:45 - Matins
9:30 - Break
9:45 - Presentation and Q&A
11:00 - Lunch (provided)
12:15 - Presentation and Q&A
1:30 - Break
2:00 - Panel discussion
Monday, August 17
11:00 - Registration
12:00 - Matins
12:45 - Break (light snacks provided)
1:00 - Presentations and Q&As with intermittent breaks
6:30 - Evening meal (provided)
Tuesday, August 18
8:45 - Matins
9:30 - Break
9:45 - Presentation and Q&A
11:00 - Lunch (provided)
12:15 - Presentation and Q&A
1:30 - Break
2:00 - Panel discussion
About the presenters
Mollie Hemingway
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway provides unique and thoughtful reporting and analysis of American politics and culture. She helped launch and is Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist, which has become one of the most influential voices in politics and has millions of readers. She is a Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College where she teaches journalism. A Fox News contributor, she is a regular member of the Fox News All-Stars panel on “Special Report with Bret Baier.” She has been profiled in the New York Times and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Claremont Review of Books, and Christianity Today.
Hemingway was a 2004 recipient of a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship and a 2014 Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute. In 2021, her distinguished reporting and commentary earned her the prestigious Bradley Prize, awarded for extraordinary contributions to American scholarship and debate, and in 2019, recognizing her 'journalistic integrity and willingness to stand alone beside the truth, the Heritage Foundation conferred on her its Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.
Hemingway holds an honorary doctorate from Concordia Theological Seminary. She is the co-author of the #1 national best seller Justice On Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court and the author of Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution and Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.
Scott Yenor
Scott Yenor is Chair of the American Citizenship Initiative at The Heritage Foundation. He is also a Professor of Political Science at Boise State University, where he teaches political philosophy and constitutional law.
Yenor writes primarily on the family. He has written two books on family policy: Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought (Baylor, 2010) and The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (Baylor, 2020).
Yenor was a Visiting Fellow in the Simon Center from 2015 to 2016. He writes about higher education reform and a variety of other issues. He attended the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire for his undergraduate degree, and received a PhD from Loyola University Chicago in political science and government.
Carol Swain
Born into abject poverty in rural southwest Virginia, Dr. Carol Swain, a high school dropout, went on to earn five degrees. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.S.L. from Yale, she also earned early tenure at Princeton and full professorship at Vanderbilt where she was professor of political science and a professor of law.
In addition to having three Presidential appointments, Dr. Swain is a former Distinguished Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation who has also served on the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 1776 Commission. In 2025, she received the Frederick Douglass Lifetime Achievement Award for a lifetime of conservative service to the nation. Currently, she is a senior fellow at the Institute for Faith and Culture.
An award-winning political scientist cited three times by the U.S. Supreme Court, Dr. Swain has authored or edited fourteen published books, including the bestseller, Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House. Other books include The Gay Affair: Harvard, Plagiarism, and the Death of Academic Integrity; Diversity Without Discrimination: How to Promote a Culture of Unity in a Post-DEI/Affirmative Action World; and Countercultural Living: What Jesus Has to Say About Life, Marriage, Race, Gender, and Materialism.
Her television appearances include BBC News, ABC’s Headline News, CBS, CNN, Fox News, Newsmax and more. In addition, she has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Epoch Times, the Financial Times, and USA Today.
She is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who resides in Nashville, Tennessee.
Alex Newman
Alex Newman is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, speaker, investor, nationally syndicated radio host, and consultant who seeks to glorify God in everything he does.
In addition to serving as president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc, and hosting a nationally syndicated radio program, Alex has written for a wide array of publications in the United States and abroad. He currently serves as a contributor to the Epoch Times, a correspondent for the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief, foreign correspondent and senior editor for The New American magazine, a writer for WND (World Net Daily), a contributor to Range magazine, an education writer for FreedomProject Media, a columnist for the Illinois Family Institute, and much more.
Over his career as a journalist, Alex has interviewed current and former heads of state, members of Congress, royalty, and countless other fascinating people. His work, which has received numerous awards, has been repeatedly highlighted by Drudge, Breitbart, Fox News, CNN, the Washington Post, and many other outlets. His writing has been published in major newspapers across America, and his PR work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, the Associated Press, and more.
Noelle Mering
Noelle Mering is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in the Life and Family Initiative. She is the author of Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology, co-author of the Theology of Home book series, and author of the forthcoming book No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them.
A columnist for the Catholic Herald, her writing has appeared in Newsweek, National Review, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and National Catholic Register. She has been featured several times on Fox News, EWTN, Relevant Radio, and in various documentaries including Jesus Thirsts. She is a frequent speaker on issues of family, culture, and political ideology, with appearances at venues including the Napa Institute, SEEK Conference, and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.
She holds an M.A. in philosophy from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, where she was the recipient of the Bishop John King Mussio Award. Noelle lives in California with her husband and is the mother of six.
Korey Maas
The Rev. Dr. Korey Maas is Associate Professor and Chairman of the History Department at Hillsdale College and an Assistant Pastor at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hillsdale, Michigan. He holds his B.A. from Concordia University, River Forest, the M.Div. from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Author and editor of a number of books, essays, and articles, he is currently co-editing a volume on the relationship(s) between the Reformation and the American Revolution. He and his wife Kate live on a small farm in southern Michigan, where they homeschool their five children.
Nathaniel Pullmann
Nathaniel Pullmann is a husband and the father of six children. He and his wife are both graduates of the finest liberal arts college in the country, Hillsdale College. He has spent more than a decade developing classical, Christian education options in Fort Wayne, IN. In 2012, he founded a classical homeschool group in the area, starting a movement that has grown into half a dozen classical homeschool communities in the area, educating hundreds of students
In 2017, he founded and opened Redeemer Classical School, the first classical Christian school in the Fort Wayne area. He is the headmaster of the school and a teacher there. He also serves on the board of the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education.
Mollie Hemingway
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway provides unique and thoughtful reporting and analysis of American politics and culture. She helped launch and is Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist, which has become one of the most influential voices in politics and has millions of readers. She is a Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College where she teaches journalism. A Fox News contributor, she is a regular member of the Fox News All-Stars panel on “Special Report with Bret Baier.” She has been profiled in the New York Times and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Claremont Review of Books, and Christianity Today.
Hemingway was a 2004 recipient of a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship and a 2014 Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute. In 2021, her distinguished reporting and commentary earned her the prestigious Bradley Prize, awarded for extraordinary contributions to American scholarship and debate, and in 2019, recognizing her 'journalistic integrity and willingness to stand alone beside the truth, the Heritage Foundation conferred on her its Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.
Hemingway holds an honorary doctorate from Concordia Theological Seminary. She is the co-author of the #1 national best seller Justice On Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court and the author of Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution and Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.
Scott Yenor
Scott Yenor is Chair of the American Citizenship Initiative at The Heritage Foundation. He is also a Professor of Political Science at Boise State University, where he teaches political philosophy and constitutional law.
Yenor writes primarily on the family. He has written two books on family policy: Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought (Baylor, 2010) and The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (Baylor, 2020).
Yenor was a Visiting Fellow in the Simon Center from 2015 to 2016. He writes about higher education reform and a variety of other issues. He attended the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire for his undergraduate degree, and received a PhD from Loyola University Chicago in political science and government.
Carol Swain
Born into abject poverty in rural southwest Virginia, Dr. Carol Swain, a high school dropout, went on to earn five degrees. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.S.L. from Yale, she also earned early tenure at Princeton and full professorship at Vanderbilt where she was professor of political science and a professor of law.
In addition to having three Presidential appointments, Dr. Swain is a former Distinguished Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation who has also served on the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 1776 Commission. In 2025, she received the Frederick Douglass Lifetime Achievement Award for a lifetime of conservative service to the nation. Currently, she is a senior fellow at the Institute for Faith and Culture.
An award-winning political scientist cited three times by the U.S. Supreme Court, Dr. Swain has authored or edited fourteen published books, including the bestseller, Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House. Other books include The Gay Affair: Harvard, Plagiarism, and the Death of Academic Integrity; Diversity Without Discrimination: How to Promote a Culture of Unity in a Post-DEI/Affirmative Action World; and Countercultural Living: What Jesus Has to Say About Life, Marriage, Race, Gender, and Materialism.
Her television appearances include BBC News, ABC’s Headline News, CBS, CNN, Fox News, Newsmax and more. In addition, she has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Epoch Times, the Financial Times, and USA Today.
She is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who resides in Nashville, Tennessee.
Alex Newman
Alex Newman is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, speaker, investor, nationally syndicated radio host, and consultant who seeks to glorify God in everything he does.
In addition to serving as president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc, and hosting a nationally syndicated radio program, Alex has written for a wide array of publications in the United States and abroad. He currently serves as a contributor to the Epoch Times, a correspondent for the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief, foreign correspondent and senior editor for The New American magazine, a writer for WND (World Net Daily), a contributor to Range magazine, an education writer for FreedomProject Media, a columnist for the Illinois Family Institute, and much more.
Over his career as a journalist, Alex has interviewed current and former heads of state, members of Congress, royalty, and countless other fascinating people. His work, which has received numerous awards, has been repeatedly highlighted by Drudge, Breitbart, Fox News, CNN, the Washington Post, and many other outlets. His writing has been published in major newspapers across America, and his PR work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, the Associated Press, and more.
Noelle Mering
Noelle Mering is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in the Life and Family Initiative. She is the author of Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology, co-author of the Theology of Home book series, and author of the forthcoming book No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them.
A columnist for the Catholic Herald, her writing has appeared in Newsweek, National Review, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and National Catholic Register. She has been featured several times on Fox News, EWTN, Relevant Radio, and in various documentaries including Jesus Thirsts. She is a frequent speaker on issues of family, culture, and political ideology, with appearances at venues including the Napa Institute, SEEK Conference, and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.
She holds an M.A. in philosophy from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, where she was the recipient of the Bishop John King Mussio Award. Noelle lives in California with her husband and is the mother of six.
Korey Maas
The Rev. Dr. Korey Maas is Associate Professor and Chairman of the History Department at Hillsdale College and an Assistant Pastor at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hillsdale, Michigan. He holds his B.A. from Concordia University, River Forest, the M.Div. from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Author and editor of a number of books, essays, and articles, he is currently co-editing a volume on the relationship(s) between the Reformation and the American Revolution. He and his wife Kate live on a small farm in southern Michigan, where they homeschool their five children.
Nathaniel Pullmann
Nathaniel Pullmann is a husband and the father of six children. He and his wife are both graduates of the finest liberal arts college in the country, Hillsdale College. He has spent more than a decade developing classical, Christian education options in Fort Wayne, IN. In 2012, he founded a classical homeschool group in the area, starting a movement that has grown into half a dozen classical homeschool communities in the area, educating hundreds of students
In 2017, he founded and opened Redeemer Classical School, the first classical Christian school in the Fort Wayne area. He is the headmaster of the school and a teacher there. He also serves on the board of the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education.