Friday, November 4–Saturday, November 5 the Pepperdine School of Public Policy hosted The Quest for Community: Realizing the American Project Conference. Conference Description: A conference originally planned for two years ago, the COVID pandemic has only highlighted the central importance of local governing agencies and community-based institutions to the flourishing of the nation as a whole. The success or failure of responses to policy issues ranging from education and public safety to homelessness and public health was often not due to federal action but in the strength (or weakness) of local faith-based institutions and effective local governments. Of course, America's founders along with its observers from Tocqueville to Robert Nisbet understood the importance of this "communitarian" approach to politics and policy—one that requires a constitutionally limited and ordered government and an informed and engaged citizenry. Hosted by our Edwin Meese III Institute for Liberty and the American Project, this "Quest for Community" conference welcomes leading thinkers and policymakers to our Malibu campus to discuss and debate the future of this uniquely American perspective on politics in a time of national polarization.