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FreeCon 2025
On February 24, 2025, we invite you to join Freedom Conservatives for our inaugural one-day annual conference in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club. It will be the year’s premier gathering of those who are advancing liberty across America and in our nation’s capital.
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Morning Fireside Chat: What Can Freedom Conservatives Learn from Their Predecessors?
Monday February 24, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am EST
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In the 20th century, a movement led by William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan advanced a simple idea: that liberty is the central feature of the American tradition, and the thing that has made America great. The FreeCons of past generations had their setbacks and their triumphs. George Will and Jonah Goldberg, who worked for Buckley in different eras, have seen it all. What lessons can today's Freedom Conservatives learn from what their predecessors have achieved?
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George F. Will

Columnist, The Washington Post
George F. Will is the “country’s most powerful journalist,” according to the Wall Street Journal. His newspaper column has been syndicated by The Washington Post since 1974 and appears twice weekly in 442 newspapers. He was a contributing editor of Newsweek magazine and a founding... Read More →
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Jonah Goldberg

Senior Fellow,American Enterprise Institute, Editor-in-Chief,The Dispatch
Jonah Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, a new media company that he co-founded with Stephen Hayes. He holds the Cliff Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute. Jonah is an LA Times columnist and CNN contributor. He has written three books... Read More →
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Avik Roy

President, FREOPP
Avik Roy is the co-founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP.org), a non-partisan, non-profit think tank striving to expand opportunity to those who least have it, using the tools of individual liberty, free enterprise, technological innovation... Read More →
Monday February 24, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am EST
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