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Brexit and the Future of the European Union
Apr 11, 2017, 4:30 pm

Harold JamesClaude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History and International Affairs, and Director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, Princeton University

Now that the UK has invoked article 50 of the European Union Treaty and triggered Brexit, the…

Democratic Greatness? Tocqueville on American Ambition
Apr 6, 2017, 4:30 pm

Robert K. Faulkner, Research Professor of Political Science, Boston College

Make America great again?  But what is America’s greatness?  The famous Alexis De Tocqueville explored the tensions among this dynamic country’s expanding ambitions and complicated creed of equal rights.  Faulkner examines…

The US-China Global Governance Forum
Apr 6, 2017

 

The US-China Global Governance Forum will consist of a series of lectures and talks, delivered by prominent Princeton Faculty and other distinguished scholars in the field of US-China relations. These talks will focus on a comparative examination of the political and legal institutions in China and the United States, and will…

The Achievements of Sir Roger Scruton
Apr 3, 2017, 3:00 pm

3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion featuring Daniel CullenProfessor of Political Science, Rhodes CollegeAlicja GescinskaPhilosopher and Novelist; John HaldaneJ. Newton Rayzor, Sr. Distinguished Professor of…

Passover on July 4th: Franklin, Jefferson, and the Seal of the United States
Mar 30, 2017, 4:30 pm

Meir Y. Soloveichik, Rabbi, Congregation Shearith Israel; Director, Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Yeshiva University

This lecture will reflect on the Hebraic impact of America and its meaning for religion in public life today.

Rabbi Dr. Meir Y…

Illiberalism on the March
Mar 9, 2017, 4:30 pm

Sohrab AhmariEditorial Writer, The Wall Street Journal

Identity politics, exclusionary nationalism, and global insecurity are eroding liberal order around the world, from Hungary to Turkey to the Philippines and -- perhaps -- here in the U.S. That's the premise of much anxious academic research and…