Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Author of Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law (Harvard University Press, 2011) and Why Progressive Institutions are Unsustainable (Encounter Books,…

Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor, Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University
Recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Endowed by the late Herbert "Wiley" Vaughan, founding member of the Madison Program's Advisory…

Michael Gerson, Columnist, The Washington Post
Moderator: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Founding Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University

Gerson highlights the contributions and failures of the religious right while emphasizing the…

George Kateb, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, Princeton University; Alan M. Levine, Associate Professor, Department of Government, American University; Daniel S. Malachuk, Associate Professor of English, Western Illinois University;

A book forum featuring the book's author, Maurizio Viroli, Professor of Politics, Princeton University; with discussants R. Daniel Kelemen, Center for European Studies, Rutgers University; and Jan-Werner Müller, Program in the History of Political Thought,…

Ricardo Duchesne, Professor, Department of Social Science, University of New Brunswick Saint John
Author of The Uniqueness of Western Civilization (Brill, 2011)

This lecture will explore the notion that western civilization has been severely devalued in the academic world in the last…

Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor of National Review, Biographer, Historian; Author of James Madison (Basic Books 2011)

Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and the author of eleven books, including George Washington on Leadership; and 

Russell D. Moore, Dean of the School of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University

Russell D. Moore is the Senior Vice President for Academic Administration and Dean of the…

Kathleen A. Brady, James Madison Program 2011-12 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, Professor of Law, Villanova University; Matthew J. Franck, Director, William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, Witherspoon Institute;