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Forty years ago, the conservative activists who had helped Barry Goldwater win the Republican presidential nomination—and had seen him lose by then-record margins—set out to create a new political movement to reverse what they saw as an overwhelming liberal domination of American politics…
Lou Cannon, The Washington Post; Jack Matlock, Jr., diplomat; Fred Greenstein, Princeton University
What manner of president was Ronald Reagan? What difference did his eight years in the White House make? Does his presidency offer lessons for today?
…Michael Cox, London School of Economics; Thomas Christensen, Princeton University; Harold James, Princeton University; Moderator: G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University
Co-Sponsored by:Princeton Institute for International…
Christine Rosen, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Christine Rosen is a fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center, where she is involved in the Project on Biotechnology and writes about the history of genetics, the social impact of technology, the fertility industry, and bioethics. She…
Bruce Cole, Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities
James W. Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
Endowed by the late Herbert "Wiley" Vaughan, founding member of the Madison Program's Advisory Council, the Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles is an endowed Princeton University lecture that is hosted by the James…
Rémi Brague, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I)
Professor Brague suggests that it is commonly admitted that the present struggle is fought between theocracies and democracies. Now, "theocracies" are not always the rule of priests. The word was coined by Flavius Josephus in order to describe the rule…
Jack Wade Nowlin, Associate Professor of Law and Jessie D. Puckett, Jr., Lecturer in Law University of Mississippi
Professor Nowlin’s talk engages a significant but often neglected question in American constitutional law: Whether the U.S. Supreme Court can itself be said to violate the…
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In Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980), John Finnis did for the tradition of natural law theory what his great teacher, H.L.A. Hart, had done 20 years earlier in The Concept of Law for the tradition of legal positivism. He revitalized a classic tradition of thought about law, morality, and…