The Philadelphia Society's 40th National Meeting
April 30 – May 2, 2004
Renaissance chicago Hotel -  Chicago, Illinois

The Conservative Movement for Forty Years: Achievements and Prospects

       7:00 - 9:00        Gala Dinner                                                                                                                      
                            
Lee Edwards, The Heritage Foundation, Chairman
                            
Invocation, John A. Howard, The Howard Center
                             Video Greetings from the President of the United States, George W. Bush
                            
                            
Edwin J. Feulner, Jr. The Heritage Foundation, Master of Ceremonies
                            
Milton Friedman Video Greetings
                            
Bill Campbell, Secretary: Philadelphia Society History Video
                             Lee Edwards, Introduction to William F. Buckley, Jr. 
                            
Keynote Address: William F. Buckley, Jr., National Review

Saturday
 
            
     
8:30 - 9:30        Annual Breakfast Meeting of the Membership (Members only)                                
 

10:00 - 11:30          Joyous and Prophetic Journalists: Chesterton, Mencken, and Whittaker Chambers
                            
Leonard Liggio, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Chairman

                            
James V. Schall, Georgetown University
                            
Terry Teachout, Author and Cultural Critic

    12:00 - 1:30        Luncheon
                            Forty Years: On the Way to the Promised Land from the Wilderness
                           
George Nash, Historian, Chairman
                           
Joseph A. Morris, Lincoln Legal Foundation, Toast to The Philadelphia Society

                           
Stephen Tonsor, University of Michigan    
                            Annette Kirk, Russell Kirk Center 

      2:00 - 3:30        Market Economics and the Conservative Movement          
                             T. Kenneth Cribb, President of ISI, Chairman
                            
Arnold Harberger, University of Chicago and U.C.L.A.
                            
George Gilder, Writer
                                     

      3:30 - 4:00        Coffee Break                                                                                                                                                               

      4:00-5:30          Letters To and From Our Children and Grandchildren
                            
Forrest McDonald, University of Alabama, Chairman

                            
Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute
                             Hunter Campaigne, America's Future Foundation
                             Jeff Nelson, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
                             Sarah M. Bramwell, Freelance Writer
                             David D. Corey, Baylor University

     6:00-8:30          Optional Saturday Dinner Sponsored by The Howard Center
                            Roger Scruton, "An Englishman Looks at American Conservatism in the New Century"

Sunday Breakfast

     8:30-11:00         Foreign Policy: The Next Forty Years
                            
John Moore, President Emeritus, Grove City College, Chairman
                            
Midge Decter, Heritage Foundation
                            
Claes Ryn, Catholic University
                            
Arnold Beichman, The Hoover Institution
                             Richard Gamble, Palm Beach Atlantic College