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…
In conversation with Associate Professor of French Flora Champy, Carleton College professors Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder will discuss some of today's most pressing issues relating to campus free expression. The topics they plan to address include institutional neutrality, student protests, and how colleges and universities…
A Pulitzer Prize-winner, Stacy Schiff is the author, most recently, of The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, hailed as “enthralling” by The New York Times, a “tour de force” by The Wall Street Journal, “superb” by NPR, and as “wildly entertaining” by The New Yorker. The Revolutionary appeared on most 2022 best-of lists, including…
Can democracy in America be saved? One way to answer that question is to look backwards to our greatest time of crisis and to the president, Abraham Lincoln, who navigated us through it. How did Lincoln define democracy? What are its vital features? And what are the particular leadership characteristics he brought to the challenges of the…
Professors Steven T. Collis (Texas Law) and Keith E. Whittington (Yale Law) discuss Collis’s new book Habits of a Peacemaker and the responsibilities we each have in relation to First Amendment freedoms, particularly the freedom of speech.
Steven T. Collis is a law professor at the University of…
What does it mean to live an examined life? How can you learn to think for yourself about the deepest and most profound human questions? What sorts of studies encourage wonder, intellectual vitality, and patient reflection? What is the purpose of liberal arts education, and how can you get one at Princeton?
Join Robert George,…