2026 Summer Institute
Featured Speakers
June 29 through July 1, 2026 in Ketchum, Idaho. Click any speaker to read their full biography.
Day 1
June 29
Day 2
June 30
Michael Knowles
Daily Wire Host & Author
Elliott Abrams
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Sanjana Friedman
Editor, The Free Press
General David Petraeus
Keynote Speaker, Former CIA Director
Kim Kagan
Founder, Institute for the Study of War
Madeline Hart
Sun Valley Policy Forum
Mark P. Mills
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
General Joseph Kunkel
President, Marine Corps University
A Legacy of Excellence
Past Speakers
Amity Shlaes
Economic Historian & Chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Activist, writer and politician
Christopher F. Rufo
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Douglas Murray
Journalist
Gordon Chang
Senior Fellow, Gatestone Institute
Peter Schweizer
President, Government Accountability Institute
Remembering Charlie Kirk
Founder and President, Turning Point USA
Sir Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
The Hon. Mike Pompeo
70th United States secretary of state
Victor Davis Hanson
Hoover Institution
Joe Lonsdale
Founder and Managing Partner at 8VC
Gov. Glenn Youngkin
74th Governor of Virginia
Jason Riley
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute & Wall Street Journal Columnist
Heather Mac Donald
Thomas W. Smith Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Allison Schrager
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Cleta Mitchell
Attorney & Senior Legal Fellow
Coleman Hughes
Columnist at the Free Press & Contributor at CNN
Daniel Di Martino
Speaker & Economist from Venezuela living in America
Eugene Scalia
Former US Labor Secretary
Jonathan Turley
American attorney, legal scholar, writer,
Matt Taibbi
Investigative Reporter and Journalist, Co-host America This Week
Peter Savodnik
Senior Editor and Writer at the Free Press
Reihan Salam
President, Manhattan Institute
Scott Rasmussen
President, RMG Research
Stephen Moore
Economics Heritage Foundation
Walter Kirn
Novelist, Literary Critic, Journalist
Anita Vogel
Fox News Correspondent
John Papola
Emergent Order
Mark Hemingway
Senior Writer, Real Clear Investigations
Mollie Hemingway
Editor-in-chief, The Federalist
Sam Westrop
Director, Islamist Watch
Vanessa Mendoza
Founder / CEO, Kite & Key Media
Zuhdi Jasser
Founder, American Islamic Forum for Democracy
Mike Davis
Founder & President, Article III Project
Phil Gramm
Former US Texas State Senator
Remembering Adam Andrzejewski
Founder / CEO, OpenTheBooks.com