Upcoming Lecture:
with Megan Basham
Date: September 17th, 2026
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Morledge Great Room, Rathburn Hall, Grove City College
This event is FREE but RSVP is required.
At a moment when powerful cultural and institutional forces are competing to shape the convictions of the next generation, Christian colleges must zealously guard their responsibility as champions of truth and builders of courage. Drawing on her reporting on ideological capture within Christian institutions, Megan Basham will challenge students and educators to recognize the pressures at the gates and to faithfully take their places on the wall.
Join us on September 17th for the 9th installation of our Conservative Mind Series. This is an event that you don’t want to miss.
New York Times bestselling author Megan Basham is a culture reporter with the Daily Wire where she contributes regularly to the top-ten news podcast, Morning Wire. For 13 years, she wrote for World Magazine, where she rose from film critic to entertainment editor and co-host of its flagship top-50 news podcast, The World and Everything In It. Her work has also appeared in such outlets as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, First Things, and National Review, among others.
She has appeared as a commentator on FOX News, MSNBC, BBC, CBN, The Today Show, Newsmax, and NewsNation, as well as numerous regional TV and radio news broadcasts.
She was previously a Novak Journalism Fellow and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. She is the author of Beside Every Successful Man (Penguin Random House, 2008) and Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda (Harper Collins, 2024). She lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband Brian and their two daughters.
This event is FREE–but registration is required.
⇓ Please scroll down to view the first 8 lectures of the series. ⇓
What is conservatism?
What does it mean to be a conservative?
The founders of modern conservatism, from the likes of Russell Kirk to William F. Buckley, Jr. to Ronald Reagan, had a well-informed understanding of what conservatism is. Kirk said that conservatism is less an ideology than it is an attitude. Conservatives believe in the “permanent things,” in an “enduring moral order” based on Biblical law and natural law. They believe in an “ordered liberty” anchored in both faith and freedom.
Many of today’s self-identified conservatives, however, are not so well-grounded. They sometimes struggle to articulate conservatism’s distinctive ideas.
Grove City College has been dubbed the most conservative college in America—the college “most nostalgic for Reagan.” We here at “Freedom’s College” boast an Institute for Faith & Freedom, which every year since 2005 has hosted an annual Ronald Reagan Lecture and an annual conference that in past years has tackled the question of what it means to be a conservative. Now, in 2022, we see the need to take a step further, to do a more lasting examination of this question.
Beginning in the fall of 2022, the Institute for Faith & Freedom at Grove City College will be launching an important new lecture series, titled, “The Conservative Mind: A Lecture Series on Understanding Conservatism and the Foundations of Freedom.”
Each semester, this series will bring to campus a leading conservative thinker or scholar to explore the precise question of what it means to be a conservative. These lectures will be open to students and the general public alike. The lectures will be posted online and transcribed for publication in a series of companion volumes. This will be a wonderful learning opportunity for both young people and older individuals struggling to understand what it means to be a conservative today. This is a subject that the Institute for Faith & Freedom and Grove City College are uniquely positioned to tackle.
Watch the first episode featuring Jonah Goldberg here:
Watch the second episode, “Is Western Civilization Worth Defending?” featuring Dr. Joseph Loconte here:
Watch the third episode featuring Daniel McCarthy here:
Watch the fourth episode. “Russel Kirk and the Moral Imagination” featuring Dr. Brad Birzer here:
Watch the fifth episode, “The Conservative Mind at the End of Liberalism” featuring R.R. Reno here:
Watch the sixth episode, “A Conservative Response to Gender Ideology” featuring Ryan T. Anderson here:
Watch the seventh episode, “How Christian Women Can Change the World: The Conservative Mind & The Conservative Woman” featuring