Dear Friends,
This year's conference runs from August 29 - September 1 in Washington, DC, and as we do every year, Claremont will host daily panels. Our discussions will focus on the future of American conservatism, natural right and classical political philosophy, the administrative state, the intellectual foundations of identity politics, and more.
Dr. Harry Jaffa, the intellectual godfather of the Claremont Institute, was famously critical of political science as practiced in the modern academy. He viewed it as increasingly dismissive of, if not outright hostile to, the natural rights and natural law tradition of the American Founding. One of the reasons Claremont was founded was to fight back against trends like this.
Claremont's panels at APSA are widely known in the conservative intellectual world as a rare place in modern academia where conservative scholars of all stripes are welcome. Unlike the standard APSA program, our panels focus on the study of American politics, political philosophy, and statesmanship. They are consistently some of the best-attended sessions at the conference and provide a much-needed refuge of sanity and sobriety for conservative scholars across the nation.
