Buckley honorees speak!

“The world is going to change dramatically over the next five or 10 years in a lot of very positive ways,” Joe Lonsdale said while receiving the 2026 William F. Buckley Prize at National Review’s annual dinner. The tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist and founding chairman of the board of the new University of Austin, which aims to provide an alternative to the ideological radicalism rampant in academia, is a young father of six and a breath of fresh air.