Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University; with Byron R. Johnson, Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, and…

Keynote Address by Hadley P. Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor in American Institutions, Department of Political Science, Amherst College

What is the proper relationship among law, liberty, and virtue?  This question if of vital importance for the free societies of the modern world.  For while those…

Abdullah Saeed, Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies; Director, National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Author of Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam and The Qur'an: An Introduction

This lecture will make a case…

Jennifer Bryson, Director of the Research Project on Islam and Civil Society, Witherspoon Institute; Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University; Michael A. Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern…

Scott Yenor, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science; Director, American Founding Initiative, Boise State University
Author of Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought (2011)

The modern confusion about marriage consists of trying to conceive of…

Jeffrey Tulis, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Author of The Rhetorical Presidency, and coeditor and coauthor of The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, The Presidency in the Constitutional Order, and The Constitutional Presidency

Hosted by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University

Cosponsored by The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, Georgetown University; and Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College

And with the…

Was the Civil War (the War for Southern Independence) a civilizational struggle?  In the sectional struggle that cost more than 600,000 American lives was the wage-labor North or the slaveholding South the historical aberration?  Which side had the strongest case that they were fighting to uphold the values of the American Revolution? …

Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University Law School
Author of Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs: Philosophy for the White House (2010), God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought (2002), and Law and Disagreement

Patrick Deneen, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair, Associate Professor of Government; Director, Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, Georgetown University
Author of The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return (2000), and Democratic Faith …