What you missed at the National Conservatism Conference

Big names pushed a grand design, but internal contradictions and ideological fractures lay just beneath the surface.

The daughter of Understanding A.I.’s Timothy Lee on her balance bike

The National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) returned to D.C. this week and featured heavyweight names from the Trump administration and broader conservative circles. The right’s new intellectual vanguard has moved past edgy outsider status and now sits adjacent to real power as it sha…