In addition to several main-stage events, the conference will feature one breakout panel session on Friday afternoon.
The breakout options are below. Please choose which one you would most like to attend. We will make every effort to place conference guests in the breakout of their choice; spots for space-limited breakouts will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please note that the panel composition is still subject to change, and further speakers will be added as they are confirmed.
Option 1: Fighting Misinformation without Censorship
How will technological advances, especially the widespread use of AI, impact censorship, misinformation, and the way citizens engage with their governments? How does this shift bear on liberal concepts of freedom and society? And what can liberalism offer in managing this shift?
Moderated by Jonathan Rauch.
Option 2: Climate Change and Liberal Solutions
How can liberal societies respond quickly enough, and at the scale needed, to address the climate crisis? What are the strongest arguments against an embrace of illiberal forms of action in the name of environmental activism?
Moderated by Matt Yglesias.
Option 3: Economic Populism
Economic populism has typically been a province of the left concerned about economic inequality, animating many a populist movement in Latin America, from Chavez in Venezuela to Morales in Bolivia. But now the right has also embraced its own form of economic populism that, in addition to "elites," also targets immigrants as well as Jews and other minorities. What is the nature of these populist threats to liberalism and how should liberal polities respond?
Moderated by Sheri Berman.
Option 4: Liberalism and its Implications for Social Justice
The implications of liberalism (or its demise) for minority groups—broadly defined to include religious, ethnic, racial, and gender minorities—are immense. What role do minority groups play in the liberal concept of sociaty? How do diverse traditions inform and echo key concepts of philosophical liberalism? How do these nexuses broaden the possible tent of philosophical liberals and defenders of liberal society?
Moderated by Stephen Macedo.