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
- 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
- plus more TBA!
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.
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
History may be in the past, but that does not mean it is without effect on how we engage with contemporary issues. As is commonly recognized at Hillsdale College, ideas have consequences. And, as was well understood in the past, history might, in some sense, be thought of as philosophy teaching by example.
This being the case, my aim in the teaching of history is never merely to describe “change over time” but, with my students, seriously to examine, to debate, and so to understand both the causes and the consequences of historical events. Such understanding contributes to the great purpose of education, namely, the development of the well-furnished and well-ordered mind, fitting individuals to be, in the words of Martin Luther, “wise, honorable, and cultivated.”
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.
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
History may be in the past, but that does not mean it is without effect on how we engage with contemporary issues. As is commonly recognized at Hillsdale College, ideas have consequences. And, as was well understood in the past, history might, in some sense, be thought of as philosophy teaching by example.
This being the case, my aim in the teaching of history is never merely to describe “change over time” but, with my students, seriously to examine, to debate, and so to understand both the causes and the consequences of historical events. Such understanding contributes to the great purpose of education, namely, the development of the well-furnished and well-ordered mind, fitting individuals to be, in the words of Martin Luther, “wise, honorable, and cultivated.”