Past Events
Annual Princeton University Reunions Event
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
How did the framers of the Constitution seek to prevent tyranny and protect liberty? How should we adjudicate among competing approaches to their handiwork? Generations of Princeton students have...
May 28, 2018 to June 1, 2018
Organized by Maurizio Viroli, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Princeton University, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin, Professore di Comunicazione Politica, Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Cosponsor: James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
May 18, 2018 to May 19, 2018
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...
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...
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.
Virtually everyone supports religious liberty and opposes discrimination. But how do we handle the hard questions that arise when exercises of religious liberty seem to discriminate unjustly? How do...
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...
Cosponsor: The Aquinas Institute
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...
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 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...
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University, and friends
Free and open to the public.
Robby George hails from West Virginia, where little boys are issued 5-string banjos at birth. Like all banjo players who were trained in the tradition...
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...