2024 in Review: A Banner Year for the Kirk Center
2024 was a banner year in terms of the Kirk Center’s impact.
We’re grateful for the goodwill and support of many friends around the nation and world who helped us take significant steps forward last year. To help capture the events, new programs, and milestones of 2024, we’ve created a year at a glance graphic below, as well as a more detailed annual highlights report.
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Hon. John Engler Now Serves as the Kirk Center’s Chairman of the Board
Step inside the second McLellan Prizes Award Gala honoring grand prize recipient, Kristen Waggoner, and four new Free Speech Fellows with full video and photos.
Celebrating the 2025 Richard D. McLellan Prizes
Step inside the second McLellan Prizes Award Gala honoring grand prize recipient, Kristen Waggoner, and four new Free Speech Fellows with full video and photos.
2025 Mickey Shapiro Free Speech Fellows Announced
Our McLellan Prizes Award Gala on 11.19.25 will honor grand prize recipient, Kristen Waggoner, and the 2025 Dick & Ethie Haworth Free Speech Fellows, Peter Bonilla and Thomas Matthew Vozar.
Celebrating William F. Buckley’s 100th
On October 23, we gathered in Grand Rapids with partners organizations to remember the life and legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. Two panels—The Role of Education in a Free Society and Fusionisms, Old and New—brought together scholars, writers, and teachers to examine...