NatCon (National Conservatism Conference / Edmund Burke Foundation)
conceptAI & Compute · The 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)[1].
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. The receipts came in: the movement's manifesto (June 15, 2022) says public life should be rooted in Christianity where Christians are the majority — and Peter Thiel's name is on the published signers' list, the same man who co-founded Palantir and preaches technological acceleration. The money is real too: one donor fund showed $95.7 million in revenue and granted $4.35 million to the movement's main think tank.
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). [
Report #188 — all figures verified to primaries] The doctrinal text: 'National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles,' published June 15 2022 (The American Conservative + The European Conservative, concurrently). Clause 4 verbatim: 'The Bible should be read as the first among the sources of a shared Western civilization in schools and universities...' and 'Where a Christian majority exists, public life should be rooted in Christianity and its moral vision, which should be honored by the state and other institutions both public and private.' PETER THIEL IS ON THE PUBLISHED SIGNATORY LIST ('Peter Thiel, Founders Fund') — and keynoted NatCon 1 (Washington, July 2019: 'The Star Trek Computer Is Not Enough'). The same man co-founded Palantir and funds the acceleration pole: the strongest DOCUMENTED cross-pole personnel fact beside thiel_antichrist. FUNDING LATTICE (990s via ProPublica/Grantmakers.io): EBF FY2021 revenue $1,242,589 / expenses $1,295,999 (FY2022: $1.36M/$1.56M); Claremont Institute FY2024 assets $18,224,884 / revenue $13,212,080; Thomas D. Klingenstein Fund FY2024 revenue $95,726,685 (of which $74.87M = Klingenstein's own contributions; assets $76.8M) granting $4,346,278 to Claremont ('The American Story Project,' tax year 2024, with a second ~$3.3M grant beside it); Thomas W. Smith Foundation FY2023 revenue $18,355,087. The pole is a funded policy ecosystem, not a sentiment.
Follow the trail
Walk this on the live map →