Tuesday, August 19 2025
8/19/2025 – 8/20/2025
Thank you for your support of Project 42! As a friend of conference sponsor Steve Gordon and/or a key Project 42 donor: We invite you to attend the NW Sanity Forum, held August 19-20 on Lake Washington as our guest – valid for complimentary conference registration for you and another guest but we need you to officially register.
Registration includes access to all conference events, including meals. There is a room block available at the event location, details will be sent following registration.
SCHEDULE
AUGUST 19
11:00 am: Check-in, meet & greet, and book signings. A light lunch will be served.
12:15 pm: Welcome
1:15 pm: Dr. Gad Saad. Professor; Evolutionary Behavioral Scientist; Best-Selling Author of The Parasitic Mind.
2:15 pm: Michael Shellenberger. Best-selling author, Apocalypse Never & San Fransicko; Dao Winner: Time, Hero of Environment; C.B.R Chair in Politics, Censorship, & Free Speech, UATX
3:15 pm: Break
3:30: Christopher Rufo. Senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, America’s Cultural Revolution.
4:30 pm: Closing Panel
5:30 pm: Cocktail Hour
6:30 pm: Dinner
AUGUST 20
7:00 am: Breakfast buffet
8:00 am: Abigail Shrier. Award-winning journalist and bestseller author, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Contributing Editor at The Free Press.
9:00 am: Dr. Matthew Wielicki. Isotope Geochemist, Earth Science Professor-in-exile, Author of Irrational Fear Substack and forthcoming book Irrational Fear: Climate Change.
10:00 am: Break
10:15 am: David Bahnsen. Managing Partner, Founder of The Bahnsen Group, Author of Full Time; There’s No Free Lunch, CNBC and FoxBusiness Guest Commentator, Contributor to National Review.
11:15 am: Closing Panel
Noon: Grab & go lunch
TICKETS AND SPONSORSHIP
Sponsorship opportunities include a table with 10 attendees, company/organization name on printed materials, and a thank you from the podium. Please contact Dann Mead Smith: Dann@pfortytwo.com.