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Save Your SeatSince 2015, the National Review Ideas Summit has convened public intellectuals, conservative leaders, policymakers, and philanthropists, together with students and young professionals, for a biennial conversation on conservatism and the American experiment. Each gathering draws some 450 leaders from across the country and American life to Washington, D.C., for panels with National Review writers and outside experts, one-on-one conversations with officeholders, and evening events. Past summits have explored themes ranging from “Why the Future Is Conservative” in 2015 to “WFB100: Advancing American Conservatism,” which marked William F. Buckley Jr.’s centennial in 2025. The seventh Ideas Summit, “The Next American Century,” comes to the Fairmont in March 2027.
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Ideas Summit
1991–1997 · Six Conferences
The Margaret Thatcher Weekends
One participant described these weekends as “like being in a George Bernard Shaw play about a riotously intellectual country house weekend.”
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1993–2013 · Thirteen Conferences
Conservatism Fights Back: NRI’s First Generation
While liberalism ruled in Washington, NRI kept the flag of resistance flying throughout the heartland and across the seas.
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The Current Iteration · 2015–Present
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