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Michael Anton

Michael Anton is a Lecturer in Politics and a Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies in Washington, D.C. He served on the National Security Council Staff in the administration of President Donald J. Trump.

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January 24, 2021

Sovereignty or submission: a symposium

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The New Criterion  hosted “Sovereignty or Submission,” a conference in Washington, D.C., in fall 2019. 

Roger Kimball introduces “Sovereignty or Sumbission”

Tucker Carlson’s Keynote Address at “Sovereignty or Submission”                           

James Piereson on the American Nation

John Fonte on Sovereignty and its Enemies

Michael Anton on the “Liberal International Order”

Angelo  M. Codevilla on Collective and Individual Liberty                                 

John O’Sullivan on the National Consensus

Victor Davis Hanson on Citizenship

January 29, 2020

Michael Anton on the war of ideas

Michael Anton, a scholar and former staffer for the National Security Council, discusses the notion of a “liberal international order” and its place in the present-day war of ideas. Audio taken from The New Criterion’s “Sovereignty or Submission” conference in Washington, D.C.

An adapted form of this address appeared in the January 2020 issue of The New Criterion as “The enemy is an idea.”


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