THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2026

11:00 a.m.  |  Tiburón IV Foyer

Registration Opens

 

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.  |   Tiburón III & IV 

Luncheon - The Roots of Our Republic

Wilfred M. McClay

Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization, Hillsdale College, and 2022 Bradley Prize Recipient

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, Director Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Yeshiva University, and Commissioner, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

 

3:00 – 4:00 p.m.  |   Tiburón III & IV 

Session I - Teaching the Teachers: The Future of Informed Citizens

David Bobb
President, Bill of Rights Institute 

Ted Tucker
The Fund for American Studies and
Executive Director, Foundation for Teaching Economics

Kevin Vance
Director of the Center for Constitutional Liberty, Benedictine College


Thomas Kelly (moderator)

Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Jack Miller Center

 

4:15 – 5:15 p.m.

Session II - Election Integrity and Public Confidence:
Foundations of Our Constitutional Republic 

Jason Crye (moderator)
Program Director, The Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation

J. Christian Adams

President and General Counsel, Public Interest Legal Foundation



Hans von Spakovsky

Senior Legal Fellow, The Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law,
Advancing American Freedom

 

5:15 – 6:00 p.m.  |   Tiburón III & IV 

Keynote Address

The Honorable Janice Rogers Brown
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (retired), and 2019 Bradley Prize Recipient

 

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.   |   Court of Palms

Welcome Reception 

 

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2026

8:30 – 9:15 a.m.  |   Court of Palms

Breakfast Buffet 

 

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.   |   Tiburón III & IV  

Session III - Telling the American Story in the Modern Age

John Papola
Founder and CEO, Emergent Order Foundation

Troy Senik
Co-Founder, Kite & Key Media

 

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.   |   Tiburón III & IV

Session IV - Federalism in the 21st Century

Charles C.W. Cooke (moderator)
Senior Writer, National Review
     
Leslie Graves

Founder and CEO, Ballotpedia

Nicholas Horton
Founder and CEO, Opportunity Arkansas

11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.   |   Tiburón III & IV

Spotlight - Strategic Philanthropy to Support These Truths

Abby Moffat
President and CEO, Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

Sherry Street (moderator)
Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Bradley Impact Fund

 

12:15 – 2:00 p.m.  |   Tiburón III & IV

Luncheon & Keynote Address

The Honorable Mike Pompeo
 70th Secretary of State (2018 -  2021) and
Former Director of the CIA (2017-2018)

Richard W. Graber (moderator)
President & Chief Executive Officer, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

 

2:15 – 3:15 p.m.   |   Tiburón III & IV

Session V - What Kind of People Did Our Founders Intend for Us to Be?

William A. Schambra
Senior Fellow Emeritus, Hudson Institute and Co-Editor, The Giving Review

Kala J. Hill (moderator)
Vice President for Programs and Strategy, Bradley Impact Fund

 

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.   |   Tiburón III & IV

Keynote Conversation
What Endures: Honor, Courage and America at 250

William D. Swenson
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army and Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient

Earl D. Plumlee
Master Sergeant, U.S. Army and Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient

 

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.   |   Court of Palms

Dinner & Dessert Reception