National Review Institute

NRI EVENTS

NRI and the American Enterprise Institute co-host panel discussion on policy changes for the new Congress.
November 22, 2010
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Michael Barone meets with NRI Washington Fellows
October 18, 2010

Jonah Goldberg meets with NRI Washington Fellows
October 13, 2010

George Nash meets with NRI Washington Fellows
September 14, 2010

Charles Kesler meets with NRI Washington Fellows
July 21, 2010

NRI hosts Republican Whip Rep. Eric Cantor in New York
July 19, 2010
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NRI welcomes 2010 Washington Fellows with special guest Jonah Goldberg
June 30, 2010

NRI and Resurgent Republic co-host panel discussion on national survey
May 4, 2010
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NRI sponsors panel on the future of conservatism
April 22, 2010
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John O’Sullivan (CBE) meets with NRI Washington Fellows
April 13, 2010

NRI hosts Senator Cornyn in New York
April 8, 2010
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Ron Haskins meets with NRI Washington Fellows
March 9, 2010

Stephen Moore meets with NRI Washington Fellows
January 13, 2010

Steven Hayward meets with NRI’s Washington Fellows
November 18, 2009

Brit Hume meets with NRI’s Washington Fellows
November 2009

Jonah Goldberg meets with NRI’s Washington Fellows
October 14, 2009

Charles Kesler meets with NRI’s Washington Fellows
June 30, 2009

NRI hosts Senator Corker in New York
April 6, 2009
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NRI’s Andrew McCarthy debates the treatment of suspected terrorists
March 19, 2009
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NRI’s Andrew McCarthy appears in Orange County
March 18, 2009
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NRI hosts Jonah Goldberg in Colorado Springs
March 7, 2009
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NRI and AEI co-host: On the Ropes: What William F. Buckley Jr. Can Teach Today’s Conservatives
March 3, 2009
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Judicial Nominations in the New Administration
December 16, 2008
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Whither Conservatism?
Conference co-sponsored by NRI & Hillsdale
November 19, 2008
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Bios

Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review and a columnist for Time. Ponnuru grew up in Kansas City and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton's history department.

Ponnuru has published articles in numerous newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Newsday, and the New York Post. He has also written for First Things, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reason, and other publications. He has appeared on numerous television news programs. He is the author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life. He is also the author of the monograph The Mystery of Japanese Growth (American Enterprise Institute/Centre for Policy Studies). He has been a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

M. Edward Whelan III is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He directs EPPC’s program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture. His areas of expertise include constitutional law and the judicial confirmation process. As a contributor to National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law, he was a leading commentator on the nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
Mr. Whelan, a lawyer and a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, has served in positions of responsibility in all three branches of the federal government. From just before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until joining EPPC in 2004, Mr. Whelan was the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. In that capacity, he advised the White House Counsel’s Office, the Attorney General and other senior DOJ officials, and Departments and agencies throughout the executive branch on difficult and sensitive legal questions. Mr. Whelan previously served on Capitol Hill as General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. In addition to clerking for Justice Scalia, he was a law clerk to Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Whelan also previously worked as Senior Vice President and Counselor to the General Counsel for Verizon Corp. and as a lawyer in private practice.

Mr. Whelan lives with his wife Deborah and their children in Arlington, Virginia.

Education
In 1981 Mr. Whelan graduated with honors from Harvard College and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1985 from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review.