April New Whiggery Dinner with Francis Buckley
Please join the April 13 6pm New Whiggery dinner with Francis Buckley of George Mason University discussing his book The...
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Please join the April 13 6pm New Whiggery dinner with Francis Buckley of George Mason University discussing his book The...
The Second Annual Tennent Lecture will be held here in Washington, DC on April 20th. Plan now to join Dr. Timothy...
Providence will be hosting its April foreign policy luncheon with Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,...
The Institute on Religion and Democracy's Wednesday Worship will take place on April 22nd at noon. This month we will...
The Institute on Religion and Democracy's Wednesday Worship will take place on May 6th at noon. This month we will...
Please join us for our May New Whiggery dinner on May 11 at 6:00PM with John Malcolm, who oversees Advancing...
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