J.D. Vance Outlines The Strategy Needed to Fight Back Against Woke Capital

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Above Video: Speaking at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, J.D. Vance explains the strategies conservatives must use to fight back against corporations that are destroying our country.

What to do about Woke Capital | The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life

On May 18, 2021, The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life hosted a lively discussion on what to do about woke capital as the transformation of America’s largest corporations into crusaders for identity politics has left many on the Right dumbstruck.

Panel One: What is woke capital and why did capital go woke?

• Arthur Milikh, Executive Director, the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life

• David Azerrad, Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus

• Matthew Peterson, Founder, New Founding, and Founding Editor of The American Mind

• Joel Kotkin, Washington Fellow, the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life

• Daniel McCarthy, Editor of Modern Age, Director of the Novak Fellowship, The Fund for American Studies

• Rep. Jim Banks, U.S. Congressman for Indiana’s 3rd district, Chairman of the House Republican Study Committee

Panel 2: What is to be done?

• Andrew Puzder, former CEO of CKE Restaurants

• Michael Anton, Lecturer and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus, and Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute

• Christopher Rufo, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

Lunch Keynote

• J.D. Vance, New York Times best-selling author, Hillbilly Elegy

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