The evening will also feature a keynote conversation with Sen. Chris Coons (D., Del.). Along with Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah), Coons is cochair of a national commission that the National Constitution Center has convened of American thought leaders from the left and the right. Coons, a cochair of the Madisonian Constitution for All Commission, has pledged to revive Madisonian deliberation in a polarized Senate. As his recent conversation with Sen. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) at the Atlantic/National Constitution Center panel in Washington showed, he believes that by engaging in face-to-face deliberation, and putting the institutional interests of the Senate above immediate partisan gain, senators of both parties can further the compromise and civil dialogue that Madison thought was necessary for reason to prevail.