NatCon (National Conservatism Conference / Edmund Burke Foundation)
conceptThe Vatican & Religious Power · Occult & Esoteric
A single annual conference is where Silicon Valley, traditionalist Catholics, and birthrate-populists meet to turn cultural pessimism into policy.
Who they are
NatCon, the National Conservatism Conference (founded 2019 under Yoram Hazony's Edmund Burke Foundation).
What they do
The engine reads it as the meeting ground where a shared gloomy diagnosis of Western decline gets translated into a post-liberal political agenda.
How it works
Its 2023 and 2025 conferences brought together Silicon Valley figures, Catholic post-liberals (Patrick Deneen, Adrian Vermeule, Sohrab Ahmari, Rod Dreher) and Orbán-style populists (Miriam Cates), with JD Vance giving a 2024 keynote, all sharing a pessimistic read of Western cultural breakdown used to justify stronger state power.
Why it matters
The engine treats it as a real, documented coordination venue — carrying a sitting Vice President's keynote — where a Catholic post-liberal coalition turns its ideas into an operational political program.
The engine's record — word for word
National Conservatism Conference (founded 2019, Edmund Burke Foundation under Yoram Hazony). Annual conference 2019-present. NatCon-5 Washington 2025 confirmed. Engine relevance: operational venue where Girardian themes are translated into post-liberal policy agenda. 2023 + 2025 conferences merged Silicon Valley figures + Catholic post-liberals (Patrick Deneen, Adrian Vermeule, Sohrab Ahmari, Rod Dreher) + Orbán-style birthrate populists (Miriam Cates) + utilizing shared pessimistic diagnosis of Western mimetic decline as authoritarian-state-power-strategy justification. Vance 2024 NatCon keynote. Engine framing: ritualized political-coordination venue for Catholic-postliberal coalition operationalizing stripped-Girardian framework. Wires alongside engine's existing vance + yarvin + dispensationalist_pipeline + cufi clusters. Webb dual-verdict: data-rigor Tier-2 (publicly-promoted conference); structural-significance Tier-1 (documented post-liberal coalition operational-venue with sitting-VP keynote attendance).
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