Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Author of A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse

This very special annual lecture celebrates the work of the late…

Amity Shlaes, Syndicated Columnist for Bloomberg, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

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This interdisciplinary conference brings together historians, political scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, award-winning journalists, documentary filmmakers, and noted public intellectuals from a variety of faith traditions to discuss the contested intersection…

Moderator: Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University; Panelists: Paul Starr, Princeton University, E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, James Ceaser, University of Virginia, Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University…

Gordon S. Wood, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University

Lawrence Historical Society

James Piereson, Manhattan Institute in New York City; Author of the new book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution:  How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism

Anthony M. Esolen '81, Providence College; Editor and Translator of the Modern Library Edition of Dante's Divine Comedy

Dan Vittorio Segre, Italian University of Lugano

Program in Judaic Studies

Thomas L. Pangle, Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

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…

Moderator: Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt Law School; Panelists: Roger E. Hernandez, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University, Peter H. Schuck, Yale Law School, Robert J. Wuthnow,…