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Progress and Pleasure: Clubbing in the American Enlightenment
Mar 15, 2012, 4:30 pm

Darren M. StaloffProfessor of History, City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Director, Hertog Scholars Program, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY 
Author of Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding (2007), and …

Free Market Fairness
Mar 7, 2012, 4:30 pm

John TomasiProfessor of Political Science, Director of the Political Theory Project, Brown University
Author of Free Market Fairness (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory (Princeton University Press,…

Where Did All the Ethics Go? An Examination of the Recent Financial Boom and Bust
Mar 6, 2012, 4:30 pm

Gretchen C. MorgensonAssistant Business and Financial Editor; Columnist, The New York Times
Author, with Joshua Rosner, of Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon (Times Books, 2011), a New York Times bestseller about the…

Government Against Itself: Public Employee Unions and American Democracy
Feb 29, 2012, 4:30 pm

Daniel DiSalvoAssistant Professor of Political Science, The City College of New York; Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Author of Government Unions and the Bankrupting of America (2011) and Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, 1868-2010 (forthcoming, 2012)

George Washington and U.S. Foreign Policy
Feb 22, 2012, 4:30 pm

William B. AllenEmeritus Professor of Political Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Emeritus Dean, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Author of Rethinking Uncle Tom: The Political Thought of Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Washington: America's First Progressive,…