Please join the Pacific Research Institute for the Annual Sir Antony Fisher Dinner and the presentation of the 2026 Taube Family Freedom Prize.
This year’s dinner, The Fall of Order: America at Home and in the World, will take place at 6 pm on September 22, 2026, at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton, California.
The evening will feature a premier discussion on the urgent challenges facing U.S. foreign policy, with a specific focus on navigating our complex relationships with China and Iran.
This year’s dinner promises to be an exceptional evening of ideas, conversation, and fellowship, featuring a distinguished panel of leading thinkers and foreign-policy experts:
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Gordon Chang, PRI Fellow and renowned author and foreign policy expert
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Kiron Skinner, Taube Family Chair of International Relations and Politics at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy
The panel will be moderated in conversation with Peter Robinson, Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution and host of “Uncommon Knowledge.”
We are excited to have as this year’s emcee Steven Hayward, Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute and the Edward L. Gaylord Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy
We are especially honored to present the Taube Family Freedom Prize to Gordon Chang, recognizing his extraordinary contributions to the defense of freedom and his longstanding leadership in confronting the challenges posed by authoritarian regimes. The Taube Prize will be presented to Gordon Chang by Dianne Taube, Chairman of Taube Philanthropies.
