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American Constitutionalism and the Legacy of Progressivism
May 21, 2012, 10:30 am

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…

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People, Particularly Intellectuals, Are Divided by Politics
May 8, 2012, 4:30 pm

Jonathan HaidtProfessor 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…

The Constitution and the Future of Marriage
May 3, 2012, 4:30 pm

Stephen J. MacedoLaurance 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…

Making the Moral Case for Free Enterprise
Apr 23, 2012, 4:30 pm

Arthur BrooksPresident, 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)

Keeping Faith: A Panel Discussion with Princeton Faculty
Apr 16, 2012, 7:30 pm

Paul W. CuffAssistant Professor of Electrical Engineering; Eric S. GregoryProfessor of Religion; Amaney A. JamalAssociate Professor of Politics; Harold JamesClaude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History…

Governing Science: Technological Progress, Ethical Norms, and Democracy
Apr 13, 2012, 10:15 am

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…

The New Regulatory State
Apr 11, 2012, 4:30 pm

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…

A Panel Discussion of Stephanos Bibas's The Machinery of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Apr 10, 2012, 4:30 pm

Stephanos BibasProfessor of Law and Criminology, University of Pennsylvania Law School 
Moderated by Robert P. GeorgeMcCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
Discussants: John J. DiIulio, Jr., …

Symposium – Slavery, Race and Gender in Islamic Societies; A Comparative Perspective
Mar 17, 2012, 9:00 am

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,…

The Fifth Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference on the American Polity
Mar 17, 2012, 9:00 am

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…