WPC is honored to have former Secretary of Defense, Gen. James Mattis as a keynote speaker at WPC's Oct 24 annual dinner in Spokane.

General Mattis' latest Wall Street Journal column offers a peek at his experiences within the Trump administration and warns agains our society's growing tribalism.  From the column: 

"We are dividing into hostile tribes cheering against each other, fueled by emotion and a mutual disdain that jeopardizes our future, instead of rediscovering our common ground and finding solutions.

All Americans need to recognize that our democracy is an experiment—and one that can be reversed. We all know that we’re better than our current politics. Tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment."