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2019 Summer Seminars
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…

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Upcoming Events

April 10, 2019, 4:30 pm

The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom

The Annual William E. and Carol G. Simon Lecture on Religion in American Public Life

Robert Louis Wilken, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity Emeritus,...

April 17, 2019, 4:30 pm

The Two Revolutions, Or How the United States Divided into Two Countries and Put at Risk Its Future as a Nation-State

The Annual Elizabeth M. Whelan Lecture

James Piereson, President, William E. Simon Foundation and Senior Fellow, the Manhattan Institute

April 30, 2019, 4:30 pm

Lincoln and Washington: Statesmen of Racial Reconciliation, Lecture 1

Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Lectures Series

Diana Schaub, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland

Recent Events

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 B. Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University...

March 4, 2019, 4:30 pm

Does America Have a Middle East Strategy?

An America’s Founding and Future Lecture

Michael Doran *97, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

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

Announcements

Postdoctoral Research Associate John P. DiIulio *18 Appointed James N. Perry Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania

John P. DiIulio *18, 2018-19 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate in the James Madison Program, has been appointed as the James N....

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-...