On December 1, 2023, the Buckley Institute hosted its Thirteenth Annual Conference at the Omni New Haven Hotel in New Haven, CT, this year recognizing the 75th anniversary of the publication of Richard Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences.

In this panel, the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald and the Claremont Review of Books’ Spencer Klavan discussed “The Destruction of Distinction: Celebrated Mediocrity, Pursuit of Comfort, and the Spoiled-Child Psychology.”