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POSTPONED: Newport Beach Forum With Keynote with Daniel Hannan, Lord of Kingsclere
September 1—30, 2026
4110 MacArthur Blvd
Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA
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Event Postponed: New Date for Fall 2026 To Be Announced
The Fund for American Studies’ Newport Beach regional conference—originally scheduled for May 5 at the Pacific Club—has been postponed. We look forward to welcoming supporters, friends and alumni at a later date and will share updated details soon.
DETAILS
Students, supporters and friends gather at a reception during the 2025 TFAS Scholarship Dinner.
Event Postponed: New Date To Be Announced
Lord Hannan, TFAS America 250 Visiting Fellow, member of the U.K. House of Lords, and author of “Inventing Freedom,” will deliver the keynote address on “250 Years of Freedom: What the American Tradition Means to the World.” The forum will also feature two panels on the state of civic knowledge in America and how organizations like TFAS are working to address the issue.
This event is part of TFAS’s 2026 Regional Conferences, Developing Courageous Citizens: Revitalizing Civic Education and America’s Founding Principles, a series of forums held around the country to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. Join leaders, scholars, students and alumni as we showcase how TFAS programs build a pipeline of courageous citizens to carry forward the American experiment.
Become a Sponsor
Sponsorships to this regional conference provide a unique opportunity to partner with The Fund for American Studies in advancing civic renewal at a defining moment for our nation.
Sponsors will be recognized in marketing materials and from the podium, enjoy reserve seating at the program, and are invited to a private dinner following the event.
As a sponsor, you will help convene today’s leading voices in liberty, support the development of programs that strengthen civic education and inspire the next generation to carry forward America’s founding ideals.
To become a sponsor, please contact JohnDimos at jdimos@TFAS.orgor 703-508-3932.
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Lord Hannan with TFAS students and Roger Ream
Since 1967, The Fund for American Studies has taught young courageous leaders about America’s founding principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility and economic freedom. More than simply teaching the genius and import of our nation’s founding documents, new TFAS civics programs explore their philosophical underpinnings, including the books, thinkers and enduring principles that shaped the Founders’ worldview.
America’s semiquincentennial is a moment for celebration and an opportunity to reset the conversation about who we are as a nation, who we aspire to be and why the Founders’ vision must endure. We hope you will join us during this historic moment to celebrate how far we have come as a nation and to invest in a brighter future built upon our founding ideals. Together, we can help ensure that the legacy of 1776, one of the watershed moments in human progress, continues to inspire people all over the world for centuries to come.
Speakers
Daniel Hannan, Lord of Kingsclere
TFAS America 250 Visiting Fellow and Member of the U.K. House of Lords
Daniel Hannan, Lord of Kingsclere, is the TFAS America 250 Visiting Fellow, writer and historian. He is the author of nine books, including two NYT bestsellers: The New Road to Serfdom and Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples made the Modern World.
Lord Hannan served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2020, during which time he founded Vote Leave, the organization that campaigned successfully for Brexit in 2016.
He sits as a Conservative member of the House of Lords and serves as the International Secretary of the British Conservative Party.
He is President of the Institute for Free Trade, a Fellow of the Independent Institute, a Visiting Professor at the University of Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala) and a Board member of the University of the Hesperides (Spain).
He contributes regularly to Reason Magazine and the National Review, and has weekly columns in the Washington Examiner and the Daily Telegraph.
Anne Bradley
Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley is the George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and vice president of academic affairs at The Fund for American Studies. Through this position, Dr. Bradley works to enhance the impact and reach of TFAS and FTE economic education programs through courses, seminars, videos and social media. She also delivers lectures around the country and oversees curriculum development and evaluation for economics courses. In addition to her role as a fellow and vice president of academic affairs, Dr. Bradley continues to teach impactful economics courses to TFAS students and consistently receives outstanding marks in students’ post-program evaluations.
Previously, Dr. Bradley served as the vice president of economic initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, where she continues to research a systematic biblical theology of economic freedom. In addition to her work with TFAS, she is a professor of economics at The Institute for World Politics and Grove City College. She is a visiting professor at George Mason University and has previously taught at Georgetown University and Charles University in Prague. She is currently an Acton Affiliate scholar and a visiting scholar at the Bernard Center for Women, Politics & Public Policy. She is a lecturer for the Institute for Humane Studies and the Foundation for Economic Education.
Dr. Bradley is the co-editor and author of “Counting the Cost: Christian Perspectives on Capitalism,” “For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty,” and “Be Fruitful and Multiply: Why Economics is Necessary for Making God-Pleasing Decisions.”
She served as the associate director for the Program in Economics, Politics and the Law at the James M. Buchanan Center at George Mason University. Dr. Bradley’s academic work ranges on the question of income inequality and economic freedom as well as the political economy of terrorism, with specific emphasis on the industrial organization of al-Qaeda. Her academic research has been published in scholarly journals and edited volumes. She is currently working on a book that analyzes the political economy of al-Qaeda post 9/11. Based on her academic research, she also worked as an economic analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Terrorism Analysis.
Dr. Bradley received her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2006, during which time she was a James M. Buchanan Scholar.
Ken Khachigian
Ken Khachigian served as Chief Speechwriter, trusted political adviser, and favorite scribe to Ronald Reagan and “go-to” counsel for the president in campaigns and political crisis. He scripted many of Reagan’s most prominent addresses beginning with the first inaugural and for what is viewed as the “greatest speech of his presidency” at Bergen Belsen. He served in Richard Nixon’s White House and alongside Nixon as he emerged from Watergate, assisted with Nixon’s memoirs and led preparation for the history-making interviews with David Frost. As a successful attorney, he also gained respect as California’s premier Republican strategist in elections for governor, senator, and attorney general. Time magazine called Khachigian Reagan’s “word wizard.” The San Francisco Chronicle called Khachigian “the ‘lion’ of California politics,” and legendary political commentator Bob Novak labeled Ken “perhaps the state’s premier Republican strategist and wordsmith.”
He received his law degree from Columbia University and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from U.C. Santa Barbara as an honors graduate. He is Director Emeritus of the Richard Nixon Foundation, and has received many lifetime achievement awards from Armenian-American organizations where he is listed, along with William Saroyan among 100 Armenians who have changed the world. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir, “Behind Closed Doors – In the Room with Reagan and Nixon.”
Thank you to our Host Committee
Platinum Sponsors
Bradley Impact Fund
DonorsTrust
Gold Sponsor
Apricity Foundation
Bronze Sponsor
Dan and Betsy Livingston
The Fund for American Studies’ (TFAS) mission is to develop courageous leaders inspired and equipped to protect and advance the ideas of individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic freedom in their communities and throughout the world. TFAS is a nonprofit charitable organization designated as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)3 by the IRS. Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law, ID is #13-6223604.
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