Who's who at NatCon

National Conservatism is one of the hubs of the transnational, authoritarian Right. In the week of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship's second conference, it needs attention.

This week in London, assorted radicalising Right figures, many from British Commonwealth country members, are meeting at the second conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC).

ARC appears to be an Atlas Network affiliate. One of its co-founders worked with an Atlas "thinktank", the Legatum Institute. Baroness Philippa Stroud is also a British Evangelical Christian who “ran prayer sessions to cure gay people.” A second founder is former Australian Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, who is belongs to the Reformed Evangelical Anglican form of Christianity. He is also chairman of the board of an Atlas-interlinked thinktank affiliated to Australia’s rural/conservative National Party, the Page Research Centre. It promotes fossil fuel messaging. The Sourcewatch page on the entity shows its interaction with Australia’s official Atlas partner “thinktanks.” Anderson is also a YouTube influencer for the Christian National-Right. The third co-founder is Canadian influencer, Jordan Peterson. He is active in promoting a kind of evangelical Christianity and climate denial.

One of ARC’s big funders - and a speaker this year - is Paul Marshall, an evangelical Brit, who has $2.2 billion of fossil fuel investments. Other investments are in rightwing media.

The ARC speakers list also includes many from what might be termed the National Conservative (NatCon) conference circuit. The speakers include Peter Thiel and some of his affiliates. Thiel is the leader of the anti-democratic tech oligarch movement, introducing Curtis Yarvin’s plan for a monarch/CEO to replace democratic projects. Noted Christian Nationalists, climate obfuscators, Islamophobic and homophobic actors are presenting.

Scandal-plagued Erik Prince is speaking. Prince’s mother was once described as “a portrait of Christian hate.” The Princes and DeVos in-laws are primary donors to the theocratic Council for National Policy (CNP) and integrated into its junktanks, some labelled as homophobic hate groups. The priest who performed Prince’s wedding ceremony is Robert Sirico, head of Atlas’s Acton Institute. That’s its most prestigious religious junktank.

Many of those listed at ARC are figures in the rightwing information space that forms opinion or masquerades as news.

ARC is also platforming (rightwing) pronatalism. This movement encouraging lifting birthrates is prompted by fears of “race suicide” and a “demography crisis.” More babies are required to protect “Western Civilisation” and as a result impediments to breeding such as working women and LGBTQIA existence are targets. XY Worldwide is representing at ARC. This body was founded by former Hungarian President Katalin Novák who is presenting. Novák had to resign in disgrace over a child sex abuse pardon. The body is reputed to be funded by Elon Musk.

Networks of networks

The Atlas Network, founded in 1981, describes itself as strengthening the “worldwide freedom movement.” It was the product of the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) which first met to debate how to promote radical “free market” political economy in 1947. The Network was founded to intensify the activity of the faux thinktanks - or junktanks - that were intended, alongside institutes on college campuses, to promote the messaging that plutocrats were delighted to fund. Atlas was founded in the same year as the even more secretive Council for National Policy, also with MPS involvement. While both the MPS and Atlas had religious strains to their ideologies, the CNP was founded to help turn the nascent Moral Majority into a Religious Right force for support, and eventually colonisation, of the Republican Party. Its goals are overtly about putting Christianity in charge of the US.

There is substantial overlap with the National Conservative (NatCon) movement that emerged in the US, working globally to network the radicalised Right. Both ARC and NatCon events connect with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s illiberal junktank sphere as well as the Atlas Network. In fact the NatCon Statement was drafted by post-liberal Right intellectuals who no longer believe democracy can provide a virtuous and rational nation. The post-liberal Right can be defined as an ultraconservative Catholic movement. Key figures in drafting the NatCon Statement are Israeli-Jewish Nationalists. Fostered by the Atlas Network, these Israeli intellectuals are also important to funding the junktank that founded NatCon. Other key drafters are critical to bringing Orbán’s Western Chauvinism to the West.

Atlas, the CNP and NatCon are all integrated into the making of Project 2025 and its government around Trump. The tech illiberal faction around Thiel and Musk are also important actors in the deconstruction of the American system. It appears that some of Atlas’s most significant junktanks have embraced Rad Trad Catholic integralism and Pentecostal Dominionism. Both beliefs place God and their interpretations of Christianity as the guide of, or in control of, government and society. They are coercive. Significant strategists in Atlas seem content to fight for freedom from freedom.

NatCon founders and signatories

Trawling through the names of people who have presented at National Conservative (NatCon) events that have taken place since its founding in 2019 reveals many individuals with concerning affiliations. The NatCon conference in Brussels in 2024 was closed down temporarily by the mayor because it posed a threat to public security. He said: "Among these personalities there are several particularly from the right-conservative, religious right and European extreme right.” Nigel Farage was a core actor in that crisis and is speaking at ARC 2025.

NatCon was formed around the work of Yoram Hazony, an Israeli Jewish-Nationalist, inspired by the beliefs of extremist Meir Kahane (but, he says, without the violence). Hazony penned a “heartfelt farewell” to Kahane. Hazony co-founded the Atlas Network partner, the Shalem Center. (He also tried to explain why Hitler isn’t a nationalist on John Anderson’s YouTube channel. Anderson is the co-founder of ARC.) You will see Hazony’s name amongst the NatCon drafters below.

NatCon is religio-ethnonationalism. It uses religion as a placeholder for race, although race is implicit in the three nationalist movements involved. Christian Nationalism and Israeli Jewish-Nationalism are core to the project. Hindutva Nationalism is also key but not foundational. The three movements depict Muslims as the enemy. (This fits smoothly into the Christian Nationalist movement because a Christian and Jewish Zionist Islamophobia industry emerged in the early years of the twenty-first century, when conservatives needed a new villain post-Cold War. Clash of Civilisations - an intellectualised bigotry - built on 9/11 in order to drive a cultural chasm that couldn’t be breached.)

Fossil fuel money is commonly noted in the sphere, so it is financially, as well as culturally, committed to climate denial.

It is ultra-reactionary socially because its adherents are terrified of sin and also “race suicide,” so working women or Queer people existing are an affront to morality and breeding.

The Atlas Network’s main religiously-driven junktank is the Acton Institute. On the Acton Institute site, Dan Hugger recounts his experience with the NatCon network: “The ‘National Conservatism’ at NatCon 3 in 2022, however, was different. Kevin Roberts, president of the [Atlas Network] Heritage Foundation, long the institutional center of what has been called ‘Conservatism Inc.,’ referred to the NatCon movement as ‘ours.’”

It is also connected to the Christian Nationalism/Western Chauvinism of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. His junktank sphere is well represented amongst drafters and signatories.

There is also solid overlap with the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). ARC looks like the British Commonwealth parallel or cousin to NatCon.

In 2022, NatCon released a Statement of Principles drafted by a series of men detailed below. It was supported by a mass of signatories.

Before tackling the drafters, it is important to note Peter Thiel amongst the signatories. He is the leader of the tech fascist plutocrat (and Groyperised fanboy) movement. He channels Curtis Yarvan’s plans for a monarch/CEO to replace democratic projects. JD Vance is his product. Vance’s elevation to the VP ticket was soft-launched at the 2024 Washington NatCon conference, where he was allocated the closing speech at the final VIP dinner.

NatCon Drafters:

Christopher DeMuth is a longtime Atlas affiliate. He was Ronald Reagan’s “Deregulation Czar,” implementing the predecessor of Project 2025 properly known as the Mandate for Leadership. While he was president of the Atlas American Enterprise Institute for 22 two years he turned it further Right. DeMuth transformed it from a stuffy intellectual body into a neocon force central to George Walker Bush’s government and military interventions. He is now national director of the conference aspect of NatCon. (Religious neocons are known as Theocons. NatCon has closer ties to the nativist, ultra-conservative paleocons.)

Rod Dreher, listed amongst the drafters, is the convert to Catholicism who went on to convert to Orthodox Christianity because Catholicism was too soft. He used to argue that Christians execute a “strategic retreat” from society to live in monastically-inspired communes. He moved to Budapest and was the conduit to Tucker Carlson broadcasting a week of (pro-Trump) propaganda for Viktor Orbán at the height of Carlson’s Fox fame. That is also the time when Carlson was regularly promoting Great Replacement theory (but leaving the antisemitism integral to the conspiracy unstated). Dreher attended the first ARC conference and is speaking at the 2025 iteration.

John O’Sullivan was a senior fellow at the Atlas Hudson Institute as well as an editor of the Policy Review journal at Atlas Heritage Foundation. He was in the Thatcher orbit and works as a rightwing thought leader, with extensive connections to a variety of transnational circuits. He connects Australian and British rightwing “intellectuals” into the Orbán junktank circuit. Both Quadrant and Encounter were CIA-backed soft power journals in the Cold War.

RR Reno is editor of First Things, a Catholic-dominated religious journal. He is accused of making it a “zombie version of itself as the Catholic rad trads try to justify Trumpism.” It is central to the Post-Liberal Right of “conservatives” who are in despair at the discombobulating diversity of modernity, and disgruntled that there isn’t actually a silent majority that supports their coercive social vision of “virtue.” They are post-democratic as a result.

Will Chamberlain is “Senior Counsel” at the Internet Accountability Project, funded by Big Tech (including Oracle) to fight constraints on the tech sector and to defend monopoly.

NS Lyons is a Washington-based “analyst and writer” who finds himself inspired by the illiberal projects around the globe. Daniel McCarthy is another of these “intellectuals.”

Signatory individuals and organisations:

See images below clusters of descriptive text for the names and affiliations of Signatories to the statement. Many of these are rightwing and conservatives publications and platforms for disseminating NatCon ideas to the “treetops” audience. Some do “grassroots” work publicising to the base. Others are affiliated to junktanks, political parties and religious bodies.

The Edmund Burke Foundation EBF is the junktank that founded NatCon. Christopher DeMuth (Atlas) is listed as a chairman. It is not listed as an Atlas Network partner, but those records went dark in 2021. There are also many junktanks that were never listed on the official list. The Chief operating officer and chairman is Rabbi Rafi Eis from Hazony’s Herzl Institute. He is one of the two listed paid leaders at EBF on the CauseIQ stub account, at USD56,000 in 1923. The other is Hazony himself who is listed as paid USD150,000 in 2024. The Herzl Institute was funded by a grant from the Atlas-connected Templeton Foundation. It was intended to “help Christians and Jews study Jewish texts, launching what’s being billed as a new kind of Jewish-Christian cooperation.”

The EBF was co-founded by the Jewish former leader of a Christian Zionist organisation David Brog. It has received funds from the Jewish Philosophy Fund and the Thomas D Klingenstein Fund. Klingenstein is the Chairman of the Atlas now-radicalised Claremont Institute. The Jewish Philosophy Fund’s personnel largely consist of Hazony, Eis and Haivry (see below). Also listed at the Fund is Joshua Weinstein of the Atlas-affiliated Templeton Fund Project.

Other substantial funding is coming from the Common Sense Society whose trustees are Marion Smith, formerly a visiting fellow at Heritage Foundation, and Niall Ferguson. Ferguson is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, which is the body that has been the driving force behind neoliberalism since 1947, and is considered the steering committee of the Atlas Network. He is also on the ARC Advisory Board.

The EBF president is Anna Wellisz, Polish-born, who contributes to assorted rightwing media outlets including this one.

Other personnel are James Orr (see below), Titus Techera (strategist for Atlas’s Chris Rufo, visiting fellow for an Orbán junktank), Nathan Pinkoski (Catholic/nationalist) and Josh Hammer (see below).

Hillsdale College is one of the key bodies around which the radicalised NatCon Right gather.

Daily Wire: rightwing “news”. Founded by Ben Shapiro. The donors behind The Wire are Evangelical frackers, fossil fuel money, who donate to other CNP-affiliated entities.

The Spectator magazine is, at best, ultra conservative. It was founded in 1826 in the UK by a reformer, but now functions as an “intellectual” hub for the NatCon and ARC circle. The Australian offshoot publishes white supremacists and antisemites.

National Review has been the centre of movement/fusion conservatism.

Stephen Bartulica is one of the European far right politicians invited to Trump’s inauguration.

Modern Reformation is a magazine of Reformational Christianity founded by theologian Michael Horton. Timon Cline is editor in chief and a theologian who opposes the separation of church and state.

Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) is founded by Jim DeMint, Tea Party and Freedom Caucus “subversive.” This essay details the connections in the junktank space. He was president at the Atlas Heritage Foundation until he was removed for being incompatible. Whether the cluster of junktanks under the CPI umbrella is considered Atlas or a Trumpist replica, perhaps allowing plausible deniability, is unclear. The same Dark Money donors support the new project, alongside some big alternative money sources. CPI functions as the social hub of the MAGA-right congresspeople in DC and an umbrella organisation for over 20 other junktanks including Russell Vought’s Center for Renewing America and white-supremacist Stephen Miller’s American First Legal. It is a focus of election-denial, pro Trump action.

Ken Cuccinelli is an election denier and the Election Transparency Initiative is one of the CPI’s junktanks.

Victor Davis Hanson is an intellectual who pleases with his focus on the classical period, military history and his Why the West has won. This is a movement that can also be encoded as a defence of Western Civilisation, when it’s not coded as about defence of religion (or skin colour). He is also on the ARC Advisory Board. Hoover Institution is Atlas Network

Hudson Institute is Atlas Network.

New York Post is Rightwing “news.” It is part of Murdoch’s News Corps and Miranda Devine is one of his prime Australian culture warriors. Devine has spoken at a Christian Nationalist event in Australia. The opinion aspects of Murdoch’s “news” outlets in Australia constantly feature NatCon ideology in the messaging. The pro-Israel material is present almost daily and almost unanswered.

The American Conservative was established by a paleoconservative faction their enemies depicted as “racist, nativist, anti-Semitic, and of course “unpatriotic,” to fight the Neocons. It publishes in partnership with NatCon.

American Reformer pitches itself as a journal of Protestant Social and Political Thought. Dunson is a theologian.

The European Conservative is part of the Orbán space and funded by his organs.

Katy Faust and her Them Before Us is an ultra reactionary, ostensibly pro-child group. It opposes abortion, divorce, surrogacy, adoption and any other divergence from binary marriage. She is a darling of the Atlas/CNP/ARC circuit. She is speaking at ARC 2025.

Merion West is a culture journal. Henry George is a Brit who has written to normalise the radicalness of the politics of NatCon.

Francesco Giubeliei is an Italian far-right thought leader with ties to neo-fascists. He mixes with the Orbán junktanks.

David Goldman wrote as Spengler for Oswald Spengler who wrote the Decline of the West, a work that helped build the readiness for authoritarianism in post-Versailles Germany. He is an Atlas Claremont Institute fellow.

Chronicles Magazine is a paleoconservative publication run by the Charlemagne Institute that aims to defend Western Civilisation. That body is connected to the State Policy Network which is an Atlas partner and has Koch/Donors Trust (Atlas-connected) funding.

Project 21 is an “initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, ...” It is an Atlas partner.

Ofir Haivry unites the Herzl Institute with Orbán’s junktank space. He is a co-founder of Atlas Shalem Center. (The Shalem Center translated Atlas’s guiding force, Friedrich Hayek, into Hebrew in 1999. While that event was met with a near total lack of interest at the time in Israel, the publication was welcomed by Daniel Doron, head of another Atlas junktank in Israel.)

Josh Hammer is a far-right media figure. He is “anti democracy, hard right” and senior editor at large at Newsweek.

Grant Havers is a conservative Canadian philosopher.

Jason Hill is apparently a philosopher, yet wrote an article defending Israel annexing the West Bank: “Not all cultures are indeed equal. Some are abysmally inferior and regressive *** a strong argument can and ought to be made to strip Palestinians of their right to vote—period *** They constitute a national security threat to Israel because a core feature of their identify is a commitment to destroying Israel as a Jewish state *** only a policy of radical containment or expulsion remains a viable option." As a re-convert to Catholicism, he has written of the “moral bankruptcy of atheism.”

Nate Hochman

Clifford Humphrey was on the EBF but is now party to Ron DeSantis’s colonisation of independent education as executive vice chancellor of the Florida education system. He undertook his doctoral research at the radical right hub of Hillsdale College.

Emily Jashinsky is a senior fellow at the Atlas Independent Women’s Forum. Federalist magazine which has become Trumpist media. Its funding is interconnected with Koch and other Atlas funders.

Julie Kelly is a former “political staffer” in Chicago and contributes to American Greatness, rightwing “news.” She writes Pro-Trump hysteria.

Benedict Kiely founded Nasarean for “aid and advocacy for Persecuted Christians throughout the world, but with a particular aid focus on the Middle East – the ‘Cradle of Christianity’.” Interesting board. One member is the son of the aristocrat who links the far right AfD with the American radicalised elites including Leonard Leo.

Roger Kimball Rightwing/Trumpist “news.”

Turning Point USA belongs to the theocratic Council for National Policy (CNP) and is part of the trashy youth mobilisation network.

Klingenstein is one of the funders of the funders of the Edmund Burke Foundation.

Michael Knowles One of the key figures in the rightwing “news” sphere for pushing transphobia.

The Center for Immigration Studies belongs to the Tanton network, a hub for racism and virulent anti-migration activity. It is intertwined with white supremacist movements. Tanton partners and funders are linked with Atlas Network and Council for National Policy actors in this infographic.

The Fantinis are key media players in Orbán’s attacks on the EU. The far right does not like the EU, because of their dedication to nationalism and enmity for “woke” etc. Corporations and the junktank sphere do not like the EU because of regulations. Both corporations and junktanks have been supporting rightwing parties to damage the EU.

Ryszard Legutko is a former Polish politician with the ultra reactionary Law and Justice Party and MEP in the rightwing faction.

Ethics and Public Policy Center is Atlas

Mike McKenna was an energy lobbyist including for Koch Industries. Washington Times is a rightwing newspaper owned by the Reunification Church (Moonies) and is a corporate funder of ALEC (Atlas/CNP)

Mark Meadows was a Tea Party/Freedom Caucus congressman. He served as Trump’s Chief of Staff. He was indicted for his actions in support of Trump’s attempted insurrection.

Claremont is Atlas and was a prestige brand for them. It has radicalised to the point that a lawfare-reporting journalist described it as a “racist fever swamp”, key to election denial and paying fringe conspiracists as “fellows.” Several of the names listed at NatCon are also part of the extreme fraternal order “Society for American Civic Renewal” (SACR). Senior Claremont figures are in SACR - Williams and Yenor. It also has Claremont funding: is SACR an unofficial Atlas offshoot? Charles Haywood who has many interactions with Claremont has suggested that he could be a warlord.

SACR also provided JD Vance’s press secretary after his elevation.

Amanda Milius produced a propaganda film for Trump’s insurrection disinformation.

Curt Mills is executive director of The American Conservative. He recently interviewed Steve Bannon. Unherd is part of fossil fuel/Evangelical Paul Marshall’s attempt to shape the UK/transnational media space towards the Right alongside GB News (= UK’s Temu Fox) and The Spectator. Marshall is also an important figure in the charter school movement which aims to undermine public education as much as possible, taking public funding to private (religious and/or conservative) institutions. Marshall is speaking at ARC this week, and is a funder of that body.

Balázs Orban is political director to Viktor Orbán and important to his junktank space operations.

James Orr, philosopher of religion, is one of the connections between NatCon and ARC. He is on the Advisory Board for ARC and is UK Chair for the EBF.

Matthew Peterson was vice president of education at the Claremont Institute. Then he was at Blaze media which is rightwing “news.”

Nathan Pinkoski is a senior fellow at the EBF. Zephyr has Donors Trust (Koch/Atlas affiliated) funding.

Futuro Presente - Portuguese journal.

Poręba is a Polish Law and Justice Party alumni. He went from that ultra-reactionary party to the junktank New Direction affiliated with the rightwing faction in the European Parliament. It is an Atlas partner and Atlas junktank co-founder Maggie Thatcher was a founding patron.

European Centre for Law and Justice is a lawfare body interconnected with Poland’s ultra-reactionary legal operation Ordo Iuris.

American Moment is a junktank that intends to form a young “elite,” training up political operatives, particularly for Trump in this era. It brings together a number of activists from different movements including Rachel Bovard of the CPI, Alexa Walker: Director of Coalitions at Atlas’s Heritage Foundation, Theo Wold and JD Vance. It is substantially funded by the CPI.

Julio Rosas is a rightwing journalist for the predictable outlets.

Helen Roy of the Atlas Claremont Institute, here interviewed by the Atlas Independent Women’s Forum, is a podcaster.

Manhattan Institute is one of the original Atlas junktanks, founded by Antony Fisher (the Atlas founder) and one of Ronald Reagan’s CIA heads. Christopher Rufo is the operative behind turning CRT (the new “n word” before DEI) and “gender ideology” into culture war campaigns. He is an Atlas connection to the Orbán junktanks.

Austin Ruse of the Center for Family and Human Rights (formerly the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute). Known as C-Fam, it is a radical coercive junktank. It is listed as a SPLC anti-LGBTQIA hate group. It acts domestically in the US and at the UN. Ruse has said: ““the hard-left, human-hating people that run modern universities should be taken out and shot”. Ruse is Opus Dei. (Many of the junktanks and churches around NatCon, Atlas, CNP and Project 2025 have donated to anti-gender bodies in Europe.)

Saurabh Sharma is executive director of EBF and president of American Moment.

Marion Smith was Atlas Heritage Foundation before Common Sense Society, a student debating forum that unites US, UK, Hungary and the Netherlands. Through that entity, he was one of the backers of the EBF.

Thomas Spence is a senior advisor at the Atlas Heritage Foundation. Regnery Publishing is the far right publishing house of choice. It has published white supremacists and antisemitic material.

Daniel Strand is a religiously-driven Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Air War College and Ethics Chair for Air University.

Carol Swain is a religiously-driven Trumpist political commentator.

Ben Weingarten is a senior fellow at Claremont and contributes across this media space. RealClear made a “sharp right turn” by 2020.

William Wolfe is a Christian Nationalist radical who is affiliated with Russell Vought’s Center for Renewing America, the hub of Trumpist action. Other extreme Dominionists speak at NatCon conferences. Doug Wilson, for example, is not just a theocrat but a theonomist, which requires Old Testament law be the only law. Another mostly Dominionist Evangelical who appears at NatCon event is Albert Mohler. This is his interview on church and state with ARC’s John Anderson.

Scott Yenor is senior director of state coalitions at the Claremont Institute. He also ran Action Idaho that attacked LGBTQIA people and spread conspiracies.

NatCon Australia

There is a small NatCon Australia entity. It calls itself the “National Conservative Institute of Australia.” An Institute? So we should expect some intellectual heft.

It has a website and social media presence. Its Executive Director is Dan Ryan. He is also a Director of the Atlas Queensland Australian Institute for Progress (AiP). In the recent Queensland election, the AiP spent substantial sums, half provided by the coal sector, to support the Liberal Party.

Ryan spoke in 2024 at a seminar reporting back on the inaugural conference with ARC Advisory Council member, Amanda Stoker. Ryan appears to agree with ARC that British Commonwealth thinkers might be skittish about the “national” in NatCon. He consistently refers to it in his many essays on the site as the “New Right.”

Most of the essays on the site are composed by Ryan. He provides insights such as: “Every morning, I wake up and scan hopefully the opinion pages of The Australian for any sign of a sympathetic or proper understanding of the ‘new right’ – the dynamic intellectual movement that powered Trump to the White House and is upending governments across Europe.

Every morning, I am inevitably disappointed.”

It is an interesting reading given the prominence of NatCon ideology in the broadsheet’s op/ed pages. Also interesting is his “dynamic intellectual movement” around Trump.

Antony Cappello is listed as a NatCon Aus Director. He emerged from the reactionary Catholic Freedom Publishing which was founded by Bob Santamaria’s National Civic Council. He is listed as founder of Connor Court publishing, which is closely affiliated with Atlas Australia’s junktanks and Catholic publishing. Its page of climate publications is illustrative.

The third figure is Jordan Knight who runs what appears to be a one-man anti-immigration operation called “Migration Watch Australia” when not working with xenophobic One Nation-linked politicians. He also writes for the ARC-affiliated The Spectator magazine on the topic. Knight provides all NatCon Australia’s Immigration essays.

Ryan interviews people including Aimee Terese. Ryan styles her as the “Aussie Queen of the Online New Right” and she can also here be heard shocking Atlas America’s Independent Women’s Forum with her cussing but delighting them with her mythical characterisation of “the left.”

ARC also has an Australian Chapter which held a conference last October, scheduled adjacent to the Atlas CIS’s Consilium conference (Centre for Independent Studies) for the convenience of international attendees like Niall Ferguson.