Upcoming Events
An Elizabeth M. Whelan Lecture
Ramesh Ponnuru '95, Senior Editor, National Review
An America's Founding and Future Lecture
This presidency has renewed the perennial debate over the importance of public officials' character. Can a distinction be made between public and...
Location: McCormick Hall 101
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University, and friends
Free and open to the public.
Location: Nassau Presbyterian Church - 61 Nassau Street
Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Lectures Series
Yuval Levin, Editor, National Affairs; Hertog Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Lecture 1: A Crisis of Confidence
Everybody says Americans are “losing faith” in our society’s institutions, but we rarely stop to consider what this means. What is an...
Everybody says Americans are “losing faith” in our society’s institutions, but we rarely stop to consider what this means. What is an...
Location: Lewis Library 120
Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Lectures Series
Yuval Levin, Editor, National Affairs; Hertog Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Lecture 2: Institutional Confusion
Our changing understanding and expectations of institutions become clearer when we consider some prominent examples. How might the state of...
Our changing understanding and expectations of institutions become clearer when we consider some prominent examples. How might the state of...
Location: Lewis Library 120
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
Heather Gerken '91, Dean; Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Sanctuary cities. Marijuana legalization. Environmental reform. Federalism has long been the darling of conservatives, but progressives are increasingly turning to state and local power in the age...
Location: Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Cosponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Lectures Series
Yuval Levin, Editor, National Affairs; Hertog Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Lecture 3: A Path to Renewal
Understanding how our institutions and our expectations of them have changed can help us articulate a key part of what is missing in our national...
Understanding how our institutions and our expectations of them have changed can help us articulate a key part of what is missing in our national...
Location: Lewis Library 120
Robert Whaples, Research Fellow, Independent Institute; Co-Editor, The Independent Review; editor of the book, Pope Francis and the Caring Society; Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University; Respondent: Samuel Gregg, Director of Research, Acton Institute.
This talk will consider whether capitalism works well and whether it can be a caring society. It will begin with an overview of what economists see as the strengths of capitalism, then detail what...
Location: Lewis Library 120
Cosponsor: The Aquinas Institute
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Ryan T. Anderson ‘04, William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles & Public Policy, Heritage Foundation; John Corvino, Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University; Sherif Girgis ’08, Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy, Princeton University; J.D., Yale Law School, responses from Christopher Tollefsen, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Kevin Vallier, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University; Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, Princeton University.
Location: Lewis Library 120
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Reflections on Leslie G. Rubin's America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class (Baylor University Press, 2018)
Robert K. Faulkner, Research Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Matthew J. Franck, Director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, Witherspoon Institute; Carson Holloway, Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Visiting Scholar, Heritage Foundation; Mary Nichols, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Baylor University; Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
The founders of the American regime prided themselves on having a “new science of politics” that would make republicanism a successful form of government for the first time in history. In a...
Location: Lewis Library 120
May 18, 2018 (All day) to May 19, 2018 (All day)
The Annual Robert J. Giuffra '82 Conference
Keynote Address: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University, in conversation with Meir Y. Soloveichik, Rabbi, Congregation Shearith Israel; Director, Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Yeshiva University
When asked what kind of government the Constitutional Convention had proposed for America, Benjamin Franklin is said to have replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Franklin’s remark reminds us...
Location: Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall