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2019 Summer Seminars
Apply Now! One-week residential seminars on the Princeton University campus for postdoctoral and advanced graduate students (June 9 - 15) and upper-level high-school students and rising college freshmen (July 7 - 13). Read more…
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Some Thoughts and Advice for All Students “Think for yourself” used to be a platitude. But in today’s climate of political correctness, it’s radical advice—advice being offered to college students by professors at institutions of higher learning across the country. Read more…

Dedicated to the pursuit of scholarly excellence in the fields of constitutional studies and political thought

Upcoming Events

February 18, 2019, 4:30 pm

John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court

An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom

Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, National Review

March 4, 2019, 4:30 pm

Does America Have a Middle East Strategy?

An America’s Founding and Future Lecture

Michael Doran, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

March 14, 2019, 4:30 pm

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

An America’s Founding and Future Lecture

Joanne Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University

Recent Events

December 12, 2018, 4:30 pm

Fearless Prophets: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Daniel Mahoney, Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship, Assumption...

December 5, 2018, 4:30 pm

Religious Traditions and the Law

Gerard V. Bradley, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School...

November 28, 2018, 4:30 pm to November 29, 2018, 6:30 pm

The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power and the Constitution

Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of...

Announcements

Keith Whittington's Speak Freely Wins 2019 PROSE Award

Professor Keith Whittington's Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (Princeton University Press, 2018) has been awarded the 2019...

James Madison Society Member Charles T. Rubin Appointed Endowed Chair at Duquesne University

Congratulations to James Madison Society member Charles T. Rubin, Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University, on his appointment to the Marie-...

Statement from Robert P. George

To the Undergraduate Fellows of the James Madison Program From Robert P. George As you are no doubt aware, a white supremacist group is coming to Princeton...