Dear John, 

What is economic conservatism?

There was a straightforward answer to that question in the 1980s.

But it didn’t come about easily.

Leaders and thinkers from all corners of the right had the hard conversations to figure out how to apply enduring principles to their particular time and place.

Today we face new economic threats both at home and abroad.

So it’s time for conservatives to come together again to have those difficult conversations. We need to answer the question What does a conservative approach to the economy look like today?

I hope you’ll join us in that conversation at The Future of American Political Economy Conference, hosted by ISI.

Join us July 23–24 in Alexandria, Virginia, to see an all-star roster of conservative thought leaders wrestle with the difficult questions about China, Big Tech, and a dwindling middle class.

Registration is free for students. And if you’re under 30, admission to the conference is only $50!

• J. D. Vance, author of the #1 bestseller Hillbilly Elegy—who is considering a run for the U.S. Senate
• Judge Neomi Rao
• Senator Marco Rubio
• Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge
• Jeff Sessions, former U.S. attorney general
• Samuel Gregg, research director at the Acton Institute
• Donald J. Devine, senior scholar at The Fund for American Studies
• Helen Andrews, senior editor of The American Conservative
• Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute
• Rachel Bovard of the Conservative Partnership Institute
• Chris Buskirk, editor of American Greatness
• Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass
• Saagar Enjeti of The Hill
• Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review
• Daniel McCarthy, editor of Modern Age
• Jay W. Richards, bestselling author and professor at the Catholic University of America
• . . . and many others!