Drawing from both personal experience and academic research, Dr. Henderson will discuss his upbringing in foster care, the challenges of childhood instability, and the role of social class in shaping identity, outlook, and opportunity. In addition, he introduces the concept of "luxury beliefs," which critiques how affluent individuals often…
Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics: science, universities, and serious journalism. Each were politicized and degraded under Covid. Based on their forthcoming book, In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeton University Press…
Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics: science, universities, and serious journalism. Each were politicized and degraded under Covid. Based on their forthcoming book, In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeton University Press…
Is the current wave of concern about smartphones and social media just another moral panic, like the ones that arose in response to radio, television, and comic books? Or is the new "phone-based childhood" interfering with human development in an unprecedented way? In The Anxious Generation, Professor Jonathan Haidt focused…
The James Madison Program is honored to be welcoming to Princeton University the eminent literary scholar, historian, film-maker, and public intellectual Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University. Professor Gates, who hails from Keyser, West Virginia, will be discussing his upbringing in the heart of Appalachia with his friend and…
From 2010-2020, the nation’s imprisonment rate dropped by more than 25 percent, much of it supported by a bipartisan movement of policymakers and advocates from across the political spectrum working together to support commonsense reforms. Join leading organizations from the left and right who have been at the forefront of efforts to…
Throughout his career, Bob Dylan has always been more than a musician. Whether as an icon of the social movements of the 1960s, a convert to evangelical Christianity publicly wrestling with his faith, or simply a poet of genius, Dylan has occupied a position of moral leadership for more than half a century. Examining these roles collectively,…
Randall Kennedy's lectures will posit the ends and means suitable currently for advancing the cause of racial justice in America. Lecture one will focus on aims: what should racial "justice" mean today? Lecture two will focus on strategy: what are optimal ways of proceeding in a polarized polity in which racial prejudices and resentments…
Randall Kennedy's lectures will posit the ends and means suitable currently for advancing the cause of racial justice in America. Lecture one will focus on aims: what should racial "justice" mean today? Lecture two will focus on strategy: what are optimal ways of proceeding in a polarized polity in which racial prejudices and resentments…
Drawing on his decades of reporting from Ukraine, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Nigeria, Libya, Syria, and Israel, globally renowned philosopher, journalist, and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy will discuss his work in the world’s most troubled places and dangerous combat zones. He will impart why, in these fragile times, we must…