The Claremont Institute invites you to watch the livestream of our half-day conference on
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
9:15 am – 1:00 pm


The transformation of America’s large corporations into crusaders for identity politics has left many on the Right dumbstruck. Regrettably, most do not understand what has happened, what to do about it, or fully grasp the long-term consequences to the nation. As America’s corporations become more woke, partisan, and anti-American, what should be done to moderate them?


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Schedule

9:15 am -10:45 am: What is woke capital and why did capital go woke?
  • Arthur Milikh (Lincoln Fellow '16), Executive Director, the Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life
  • David Azerrad (Publius Fellow '07), Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, Hillsdale College's Washington, D.C. campus
  • Matthew Peterson, President, New Founding, and Founding Editor of The American Mind
  • Joel Kotkin, Washington Fellow, the Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life
  • Dan McCarthy (Lincoln Fellow '20), Editor of Modern Age, Director of the Robert Novak Fellowship, the Fund for American Studies
  • Rep. Jim Banks, U.S. Congressman for Indiana's 3rd district, Chairman of the House Republican Study Committee


11:00 am -12:15 pm: What is to be done?
  • Ryan Williams, President, Claremont Institute
  • Andrew Puzder, former CEO of CKE Restaurants 
  • Michael Anton (Publius Fellow '94), Lecturer and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus, and Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute
  • Christopher Rufo (Lincoln Fellow '17), Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute


12:45 pm: Lunch Speaker
  • J.D. Vance, New York Times best-selling author, Hillbilly Elegy
The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.