Upcoming Events

Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute, surveys the current landscape of the American conservative movement from his seat in Washington. He will examine how think tanks are shaping public policy at a moment of realignment on the right, and where the movement’s priorities are headed next.

​Join The David Network for a fireside chat with Scott Kupor and Joe Lonsdale to discuss “Impact in the Federal Government,” exploring how talented operators and builders can drive meaningful change through public service.

Renowned liturgical artist and storyteller Jonathan Pageau joins UATX to discuss AI and transhumanism. This event is hosted by the Austin Union. UATX students founded the Austin Union to promote respectful debate and rigorous thinking.

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism has unleashed unimaginable growth in opportunity and prosperity. Senator Phil Gramm, economist, former Congressman and Senator, and one of America’s premier public policy advocates, will share his latest book, The Triumph of Economic Freedom, and expand upon pivotal moments in our country’s economic history that have largely defined the role of government and how the 21st century world works.

David Chaimovitz, founder and CEO of Setna iO, will share the pivotal decisions behind his entrepreneurial successes. He'll discuss everything from navigating the aviation industry during COVID-19 to what matters most as a leader, challenging conventional thinking and building Setna's people-first culture.

How do allies who distrust one another still manage to win a world war? Award-winning historian Tim Bouverie takes up that question in his latest book, Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World. He traces the fractious, high-stakes coalition that defeated the Axis and draws pointed parallels between the international tensions of the 1940s and the fault lines dividing the world today.

Join us for the English-language book launch of Nazi-Communism: Why Marxist-Leminists and Nazi Fascists Are Ideological Twins. Nazi-Communism: Why Marxist-Leninists and Nazi Fascists Are Ideological Twins is a provocative, meticulously argued treatise that dismantles the conventional narrative separating Nazism from communism. Drawing on extensive historical, philosophical, and economic analysis, Kaiser demonstrates that both ideologies are not opposites but fraternal variants of the same socialist root—united by their rejection of core Western values. The book is structured around five shared negations that define their common essence: anti-rationalism (polylogism, where truth is class- or race-conditioned, destroying objective reason and enabling “Aryan science” or “proletarian science”); anti-individualism (collectivism that subordinates the person to the tribe—class or race—and dismisses human rights as bourgeois/Jewish frauds); anti-capitalism (both as socialist reactions against liberal markets, with Nazi economics mirroring communist central planning and failure); anti-Christianity (Gnostic political religions promising secular utopias through the destruction of the Judeo-Christian order); and anti-humanism (Luciferian hubris to “purify” humanity via terror, creating a “new man” while annihilating the old, from gulags to Auschwitz). Kaiser exposes the double standard in academia and culture that sanitizes communism’s 100+ million victims while demonizing Nazism alone, arguing that Nazism is essentially communism stripped of internationalism and its inclusive utopian mask. Richly documented with quotes from Hayek, Mises, Popper, Arendt, Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, and primary sources (including Hitler, Lenin, Marx, Engels, Goebbels, and Mussolini), the book is both a scholarly demolition of Marxist apologetics and a passionate defense of individualism, reason, capitalism, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. It serves as a timely warning against resurgent collectivism and those “fascists disguised as anti-fascists.”