Public | Nov, 30 2022 7:30PM - 9:00PM
This event is brought to you by The Athenaeum at The University of Texas, a new interdisciplinary center for civil discourse and Socratic inquiry; the Clements Center; the LBJ Foundation; and LBJ School of Public Affairs.
The direction of the Republican Party and the meaning of conservatism have been the subject of very different visions in recent times. The 2024 election cycle will entail a debate among those visions. Distinguished conservatives George F. Will and Karl Rove are ideal partners for a conversation on this important topic. In this special event, they will discuss the future of the Republican party and of the American conservative movement. Their conversation will be moderated by Professor Will Inboden, Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and author of the new book, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink.
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Speakers
George Will is a Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator and the author of more than a dozen best-selling books, including, most recently, American Happiness and Discontents. The profound influence of his twice-weekly column in The Washington Post once led the Wall Street Journal to refer to him as “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America.”
Karl Rove is a Republican strategist, and the former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush. As a consultant, he has worked on over 75 Republican U.S. Senate, Congressional and gubernatorial candidates in 24 states. A one-time lecturer at the LBJ School, he is the author of several books, including the New York Times best-seller, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.
Moderator
William Inboden joined the LBJ School faculty after many years of working as a policymaker in Washington, DC, and directing a foreign policy think tank overseas. He is the William Powers, Jr. executive director of the Clements Center for National Security and a distinguished scholar at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He is also a National Intelligence Council associate and serves on the CIA's Historical Advisory Panel and State Department's Historical Advisory Committee. His most recent book, on the Reagan administration's national security policies, is The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World (2022).
Location and Parking
This event will be held at the LBJ Presidential Library, located at 2313 Red River Street. Free parking will be available in the LBJ Library visitors lot (#38), as well as the lots adjacent on either side (lots 37 and 39). Directions and a map are available on the website.
