In the aftermath of January’s destructive Southern California wildfires, media reports, whistleblowers, and elected officials are providing much needed oversight in the role misguided government policies have played in worsening the tragedy.  Affected residents are now seeing firsthand how bad policies and unnecessary government bureaucracy are hindering the rebuilding process.

Join PRI’s scholars and policy experts for an informative webinar exploring how policy influenced the tragedy on issues ranging from planning to insurance, get the lessons learned from the Maui wildfires that every Southern Californian should know as the rebuilding process begins, and learn what should be done going forward to better protect Californians from wildfire risk.

Featuring:

• The Hon. Daniel Kolkey, PRI Board Member and Chair of PRI’s California Reform Committee
• Steven Greenhut, Director, PRI’s Free Cities Center
• Joe Kent, Executive Vice President, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii

Wednesday, March 12

11 AM Pacific Time

Register to watch live on Zoom

(Note: individuals must register to watch live)

Join PRI for a special live webinar with Sally Pipes,
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy, discussing her new book, The World’s Medicine Chest: How America Achieved Pharmaceutical Supremacy – and How to Keep It (Encounter Books).

The book explores how America became the world’s leader in biopharmaceutical innovation through market capitalism, and argues that the embrace by Democrats and even some Republicans to follow Europe and enact controls on prescription drugs would be a grave mistake.

Pipes will discuss her new book in conversation with Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, and will take audience questions.

Wednesday, February 26
11 AM Pacific Time

Register to watch live on Zoom
(Note: individuals must register to watch live)

Pacific Research Institute Annual Baroness Thatcher Dinner

An Evening with

GORDON CHANG

Threats To Democracy from
America’s Adversaries

Baroness Thatcher Award presentation to
LINDEN BLUE
Co-Owner and Vice Chair of General Atomics

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2025

Reception and Dinner

6pm–9pm

The Lodge at Torrey Pines

La Jolla, California

Join us for PRI’s Seventh Annual
“California Ideas in Action” Conference

Featuring Keynote Luncheon Speaker
Scott Rasmussen

One of the world’s leading public opinion pollsters and top political analysts
Host of “The Scott Rasmussen Show” on Merit Street Media

And featuring conversations and panel discussions with leading state policymakers and free market thinkers on some of California’s top 2025 challenges including:

• What’s next for public safety policy after the passage of Prop. 36
• How to improve student achievement in the classroom
• Why bad government prescription drug policy could harm patients
• The “War on Suburbia” – California’s ongoing debate over land use and housing policy

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
The Sutter Club, Sacramento

Doors open: 9:30 AM

Opening remarks and morning program: 10:00 to 11:45
Keynote luncheon with Scott Rasmussen: 11:45 AM to 1 PM
Afternoon program: 1:10 to 2:15 PM

Please join us for a Luncheon & Book Signing with Christopher Cox

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

The Pacific Club
4110 MacArthur Blvd.
Newport Beach, CA

11:30am Registration opens
12:00pm Luncheon and Remarks
1:00pm Q & A
1:15pm Booksigning

About the book:
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses the life and role of Woodrow Wilson in the long national struggle for racial equality and women’s voting rights.

Wilson emerges as a man superbly unsuited to the moment when, as his presidency began in 1912, the struggle for women’s voting rights in America was reaching the tipping point.
Wilson was the first Southern Democrat to occupy the White House since the Civil War era. Wilson brought to Washington like-minded men who quickly set to work segregating the federal government. His sympathy for Jim Crow and states’ rights animated his years-long hostility to the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, which promised universal suffrage backed by federal enforcement.

The heroes responsible for the eventual success of the unadulterated Anthony Amendment are brought to life by Christopher Cox, an author steeped in the ways of Washington. This is a brilliant, carefully researched work that puts you at the center of one of the greatest advances in the history of American democracy.

The Pacific Research Institute and the Claremont Institute
Invite you to

Roasting and toasting are his former students

Steven Hayward, Ph.D. (Moderator)
Senior Fellow at PRI and Edward L. Gaylord Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy

Michael Anton
Jack Roth Senior Fellow at CI and lecturer in politics at Hillsdale College

Glenn Ellmers, Ph.D.
Salvatori Research Fellow in the American Founding at Claremont Institute

Richard Samuelson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Government, Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College, Washington, D.C.

Bradley C.S. Watson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Government, Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College, Washington, D.C.

Complimentary signed copies of Leisure with Dignity

Business Attire

Please join us for an author’s luncheon and book signing with Timothy Carney

Author of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
12pm

The Pacific Club – the Living Room
4110 MacArthur Blvd.
Newport Beach, 92660

Timothy Carney, bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad?

Our culture tells parents there’s one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can’t do that, don’t bother.

How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In Family Unfriendly, bestselling author and Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney says it’s time to end this failed experiment in overparenting.

This is an old-fashioned view, but every day the evidence validates it. Drawing on rigorous research—both as a reporter and as a dad of six—Carney demonstrates why modern parenting is so misguided. The high standards set for modern American parenting are unrealistic and setting parents—and our kids—up to fail.

Researched over three years and written in between rec baseball games and church picnics where nobody was watching the kids, Family Unfriendly is deeply wise, energetically told, and destined to be the most consequential book about parenting in years.

How the Supreme Court ruling impacts California’s efforts to clean up our streets

Go inside the historic decision with lawyers involved in the case and hear from policy experts on what cities and counties can now do to address homelessness in their communities following the ruling

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson represents the lifting of a major legal logjam that has hindered the efforts of local governments in California and across the country to clean up homeless encampments and alleviate rising homelessness on our streets.

Join PRI on Thursday, August 1 for an informative webinar discussion featuring one of the lawyers who represented Grants Pass before the Supreme Court, PRI’s adjunct fellow and one of America’s top constitutional lawyers who drafted PRI’s amicus brief in the case, and PRI’s team of policy experts.

They’ll take you inside the Supreme Court hearing on the case, and explore what cities and counties can now do to address homelessness in their communities following the ruling.

Featuring:

• Theane Evangelis, Partner, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLP

• Erik Jaffe, PRI Adjunct Fellow and Partner in Schaerr-Jaffe

• Wayne Winegarden, PRI Senior Fellow in Business and Economics

Moderated by:

• Steven Greenhut, Director, PRI’s Free Cities Center

With introductory comments by:

• The Hon. Daniel Kolkey, PRI board member and chair of PRI’s California reform committee

Pacific Research Institute presents

An Evening With Bestselling Author

Lord Roberts of Belgravia

at The California Club

6-9pm
Friday, August 2, 2024
The California Club
538 Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Reception and Dinner

$150 per person/$2500 per table (10 guests)

Join us for our Annual Sir Antony Fisher dinner with

Keynote Speaker and Taube Family Freedom Prize Recipient
KIMBERLEY STRASSEL

as she delves into the 2024 Election, affairs in our nation’s capital, and the fundamental importance of civil liberties, specifically those guaranteed by the First Amendment.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
6-9PM

The Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley
2050 University Ave., East Palo Alto, CA 94303

6pm Cocktail Reception
7pm Dinner & Remarks with Kimberley Strassel
9pm Evening Concludes

For more information please contact Laura Dannerbeck at (415) 250-9206 or [email protected].

The Left’s Assault on Civilization and the Battle for America’s Future

A PRI Napa Valley Dinner with
Victor Davis Hanson

Featuring a Pre-Dinner Discussion with Fritz Maytag on Wine, Water, and Wildfires

Tuesday, June 25, 2024
5 pm to 9 pm

The Meritage Resort and Spa
875 Bordeaux Way
Napa, California 94558

Reception and Dinner Tickets: $350
Sponsorship Packages Available

For more information and to inquire about PRI’s room block at The Meritage, please contact Laura Dannerbeck at (415) 250-9206 or [email protected].

Woke to Unwoke

Please join us for an author’s luncheon
and book signing with
Batya Ungar-Sargon

Author of
Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed Working Men and Women

Tuesday, May 14, 2024
12pm
Palio Trattoria Italiana
640 Sacramento Street
San Francisco

Who is the American working class? Do they still have a fair shot at the American Dream?

What do they think about their chances to secure the hallmarks of a middle-class life?

While writing this book, Batya Ungar-Sargon visited states across the nation to speak with members of the American working-class fighting tooth and nail to survive. In Second Class, working-class Americans of all races, political orientations, and occupations share their stories—cleaning ladies, health care aides, cops, truck drivers, fast food workers, electricians, and more. In their own words, these working-class Americans explain the struggles and triumphs of their increasingly precarious lives—as well as what policies they think would improve them. Second Class combines deep reporting with a look at the data and expert opinion on America’s emergent class divide, in which the most basic elements of a secure and stable life are increasingly out of reach for those without a college education.