Keynote Address by James W. Ceaser, Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the election of 1912, which retired William Howard Taft from the presidency and elevated Woodrow Wilson in his place. That…
Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia; Visiting Professor of Business Ethics, NYU-Stern School of Business; Author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Basic Books, 2006); and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by…
Stephen J. Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Principal co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (Brookings, 2005); and co-author and co…
Arthur Brooks, President, American Enterprise Institute
Author of Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America – and How We Can Get More of It (Basic Books, 2008), and The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise (Forthcoming, May 2012)
Paul W. Cuff, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering; Eric S. Gregory, Professor of Religion; Amaney A. Jamal, Associate Professor of Politics; Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History…
In the last decade, Americans have witnessed several political controversies regarding the ethics of forms of scientific research and the governance of science. Some political liberals claim that politics has distorted science across a range of issues, from climate change to evolutionary biology to embryonic stem cell research. In these…
Christopher DeMuth, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute; former President, American Enterprise Institute
Today’s regulatory policy debates—concerning EPA greenhouse gas rules, ObamaCare, the light-bulb ban, and much else—have a strong partisan cast. But the growth of regulation is primarily an…
Stephanos Bibas, Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
Discussants: John J. DiIulio, Jr., …
This symposium consists of a small group of scholars who will come together at Princeton University for one and a half days of intensive, collegial inquiry into the historical phenomenon of the institution of slavery in Islamic societies and in societies in which Islam played a significant role. The symposium will focus, in particular,…
Hosted by Georgetown University’s Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, and cosponsored by the James Madison Program at Princeton University, the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, and the Tocqueville Program…