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From Buckley to Trump: Making American Conservatism Great Again

Thu, October 25, 2018
Dinner Program
Charles Kesler

Bill Buckley and his magazine, National Review, helped to invent the modern American conservative movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Charles Kesler, professor of government at CMC, will discuss how Buckley managed to turn a small intellectual movement of traditionalists, libertarians, and anti-Communists into the dominating spirit of the Republican Party, and of mainstream American politics, in the 1980s and beyond. He will also address whether the rise of Donald Trump signals the end of Buckley’s and Reagan’s conservative movement, or its evolution into a new form for a new day.

 

Charles Kesler is the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at CMC, and for almost two decades served as director of the College's Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World. He is the editor of the Claremont Review of Books and a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. In 2017, he was named to the POLITICO 50, Politico magazine’s annual list of the fifty most influential “dreamers, doers, and thinkers who are reshaping American politics.”  In May, Kesler was awarded a 2018 Bradley Prize by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. His edition of The Federalist Papers is the best-selling one in the country. His most recent book is I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of American Liberalism.

 

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