"We Are Doomed!"
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
5:00 p.m.: Registration
6:00 p.m.: Reception
7:15 p.m.: Dinner
Address by Paul Gottfried, Mencken Club President, to speak on his new book, Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers
Keynote address: Steve Sailer, “Libreal Jews And How They Got That Way."
(N.B. Thomas E. Woods Jr. has had to cancel due to an illness.)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009
9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m --Radical Traditionalism
Moderator: Jim Russell, author of The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity.
“The Future of Catholic Traditionalism”--Patrick Deneen, Founding Director of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy at Georgetown University and author of The Odyssey of Political Theory (2000) and Democratic Faith (2005).
“The Future of Protestant Traditionalism”--Gene Edward Veith, the Provost of Patrick Henry College; a frequent contributor to WORLD magazine and author of books on literature, art, and religion.
“Julius Evola's Revolt Against the Modern World”--E. Christian Kopff, author of The Devil Knows Latin: Why Americans Need the Classical Tradition and Director, the Center for Western Civilization at the University of Colorado
10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. The Establishment, Old and New
“George Kennan and the Dilemmas of American Foreign Policy”--Lee Congdon, professor of history (emeritus), James Madison University; author of George Kennan: A Writing Life (2008), and numerous other books on central European cultural history
“American Foreign Policy and 'The Elite': From Dulles and Kennan to Albright and Wolfowitz”--Paul Gottfried, author of eight books including, After Liberalism: Mass Democracy and the Managerial State (Princeton, 1999); and Multiculturaism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards a Secular Theocracy (2002)
"The EU Globalized--The Ends of Liberal Internationalism"--James Kalb, author of The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command
12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m. Luncheon
“Back to the Future”–-Patrick J. Buchanan, advisor to three presidents, three-time presidential candidate, and author of ten books, including Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World,
2:00 p.m.- 3:15 p.m. Debt, Demographics, and Disaster
“Diversity is Strength--and an Epic Economic Collapse”--Peter Brimelow, financial journalist, founder of Vdare.com, author of several books including Alien Nation: Common Sense about America’s Immigration Disaster (1995)
“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Financial Crisis”--Richard Spencer, managing editor, Taki’s Magazine (Takimag.com)
“The Diversity Depression”--Steve Sailer, columnist for Taki's Magazine and VDare.com; and founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute
3:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Man, Economy, and State
Moderator: Tom Piatak, contributing editor at Chronicles Magazine and Taki's Magazine and a regular contributor to Vdare.com.
“Bailing on the Constitution”--Kevin Gutzman, an American historian and New York Times bestselling author. He is an associate professor of the Department of History and Non-Western Cultures at Western Connecticut State University.
“A National Economy”--George Csatary, the co-founder and treasurer of the American Protectionist Society
Discussion: The American Economy–-Disaster or Catastrophe?
Kevin Gutzman, George Csatary, Peter Brimelow, and Tom Piatak
6:30 p.m Reception
7:30 p.m. Dinner
Address: “We are Doomed! Rediscovering Conservative Pessimism”--John Derbyshire, mathematician and cultural commentator will discuss his new book of the same title. He is the author of several other books including Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003).
Sunday, November 1, 2009
9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Organizing the Youth
Kevin DeAnna, founder of Youth for Western Civilization, a field representative for the Leadership Institute, and a graduate student at American University. Steve Bierfeld, director of Amit Singh's Congressional campaign in Virginia’s 8th District and co-authore of Who is the Real Barack Obama?.
10:30 a.m. – 12 noon: The Post-Conservative Right
Peter Brimelow, Kevin DeAnna, John Derbyshire, Paul Gottfried, Richard Spencer
Sunday, August 16, 2009
How to Register for the 2009 Conference
The easiest way to register for the 2009 conference is to make a payment online, securely and swiftly through Paypal.
If you can't stay for the whole weekend and would like to attend the conference in piecemeal, you can choose from the options below:
Saturday, October 31 only, Sessions Only Rate (no meals): Just $50.00
Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 31-Nov.1) only, including all panels and sessions, Lunch with Pat Buchanan, Dinner with John Derbyshire: Just $100.00
Friday, October 30, Opening night banquet with author and historian Tom Woods: Just $60.00
Saturday, October 31, Lunch with Patrick J. Buchanan: Just $45.00
Saturday, October 31, Dinner with John Derbyshire: Just $55.00
Or, if you'd prefer not to pay online, you can mail a check to the following address:
The HL Mencken Club
P.O. Box 1369
Boca Grande, FL 33921
The cost of attending the 2009 conference is $165.00, which includes all speeches and panels, the opening night banquet with Tom Woods, lunch on Saturday with Pat Buchanan, and dinner on Saturday with John Derbyshire. There will be light refreshments on Saturday and Sunday morning.
If you can't stay for the whole weekend and would like to attend the conference in piecemeal, you can choose from the options below:
Saturday, October 31 only, Sessions Only Rate (no meals): Just $50.00
Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 31-Nov.1) only, including all panels and sessions, Lunch with Pat Buchanan, Dinner with John Derbyshire: Just $100.00
Friday, October 30, Opening night banquet with author and historian Tom Woods: Just $60.00
Saturday, October 31, Lunch with Patrick J. Buchanan: Just $45.00
Saturday, October 31, Dinner with John Derbyshire: Just $55.00
Or, if you'd prefer not to pay online, you can mail a check to the following address:
The HL Mencken Club
P.O. Box 1369
Boca Grande, FL 33921
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Help Support the HLMC (This Means You!)
We'd love to tell you that the HL Mencken Club is supported by the biggest players at the highest levels of government and international finance, and that our greatest worry is staying true to our mission and not "selling out." But the truth is, the Club operates solely on conferences fees, membership dues, and small donations by our friends and supporters.
So, if you appreciate the HLMC, and would like to see us expanded our fearless, un-PC programs in the near future, please give generously.
A good way to do this is to become a sponsor of the Fall Conference (benefits includes being formally addressed a "Sponsor" and "Benefactor" by members and generally showered with compliments and flattery.)
Co-Sponsors rate is $1,000; Benefactors rate is $500; Patron rate is $250.
Donations are tax-deductible and will help with scholarships and other expenses for the conference. Sponsors who attend the meeting will have VIP seating at the banquets. For more information, email Fran Griffin, President, Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation.
The Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, which is recognized by the IRS as a 501 (c)(3) organization, is a co-sponsor of the H. L. Mencken Club Fall conference. The Foundation will be providing scholarships to academics, audio-taping of the event, and other services, depending on the funds collected. A donor has agreed to match funds up to $1,200 to provide a professional sound system and audio recording.
So, if you appreciate the HLMC, and would like to see us expanded our fearless, un-PC programs in the near future, please give generously.
A good way to do this is to become a sponsor of the Fall Conference (benefits includes being formally addressed a "Sponsor" and "Benefactor" by members and generally showered with compliments and flattery.)
Co-Sponsors rate is $1,000; Benefactors rate is $500; Patron rate is $250.
Donations are tax-deductible and will help with scholarships and other expenses for the conference. Sponsors who attend the meeting will have VIP seating at the banquets. For more information, email Fran Griffin, President, Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation.
The Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, which is recognized by the IRS as a 501 (c)(3) organization, is a co-sponsor of the H. L. Mencken Club Fall conference. The Foundation will be providing scholarships to academics, audio-taping of the event, and other services, depending on the funds collected. A donor has agreed to match funds up to $1,200 to provide a professional sound system and audio recording.
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