patrick dineen, phil munoz, there are many great conservative-leaning intellectual thought leaders there at your compass. -- at your campus. i look forward to the q&a more than any. i will try to keep my thoughts to. so we are talking about intellectual trends on the american right more generally. i think it is best to give a very, very quick overview of the so-called modern conservative movement and then talk about what is actually happening now and where are expected to go in the future. the origins of the so-called modern conservative movement start after world war ii. america is victorious in world war ii, harry truman is the president. this is the time of increased globalization. the united nations comes into being, nato comes into being, and shortly thereafter, you have what become the leaders of the conservative movement start to get active in publishing. philip buckley junior -- william buckley, jr., russell kirk , he starts getting active. he takes it slightly more traditionalist buckleyian view of traditionalism. and they found the magazine in 1955 which, for decades, arguably