IF YOU’RE IN THE PHOENIX AREA: Here’s an worthwhile way to spend the upcoming weekend: Arizona State University’s School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership is holding a conference on Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America from Friday, February 28th to Saturday, February 29th. The keynoters will be Rich Lowry, who will speak on “Nationalism and America” and Yascha Mounk, whose talk will be “The Decline of Democracy Standing Up for Liberal Democratic Values.” Panel speakers will include Christopher Caldwell, Shikha Dalmia, Kurt Lash, Glenn Loury, Henry Olsen, and Wilfred McClay. It should be an interesting weekend. I’ll be there too (as a panel moderator, so I’ll have an easy job).