Past Events
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Wilfred M. McClay, G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma; 2019-2020 Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University; Commentators: Darren Staloff, Professor of History, City College of New York; Sean Wilentz, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, Princeton University; Moderator: Allen C. Guelzo, Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, Princeton University
Those who approach the study of American history deserve an introduction that sweeps across politics, social life, and culture, without demanding the reader’s assent to an ideological agenda. They...
The Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles
The Honorable Stephanos Bibas, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Today, criminal justice reformers are divided between those who favor insulated professional expertise and those who advocate more popular self-government. American criminal justice has become too...
Thomas Philippon, Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, New York University
REGISTRATION REQUIRED HERE: https://jrc.princeton.edu/rsvp-philippon-2020
In his new book, economist Thomas Philippon...
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
James M. Patterson, Associate Professor of Politics, Ave Maria University
Catholics, Protestants, and Jews are not well known for getting along; throughout the twentieth century, however, Americans of all three faiths formed a religious consensus that rested on a shared...
Joel Finkelstein *18, 2019-20 Visiting Research Scholar, James Madison Program, and Director of the Network Contagion Research Institute
Cosponsors: Hosted by the Center for Jewish Life, Cosponsored by the James Madison Program
Maurizio Viroli, Professor Emeritus of Politics, Princeton University; Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin; Professor of Political Communication, University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano)
At the beginning of the Risorgimento, the Italian Unification, new prophetic voices urged Italians to emancipate themselves from their servile mentality and fight to attain national...
Cosponsor: the Program in Italian Studies
December 7, 2019 to December 14, 2019
The James Madison Program and the Arts Council of Princeton welcome all to an exhibit of pieces commissioned from the October 11th Spirit of Truth-Seeking Event of the Being Human Festival, which featured Princeton University Professor Robert George, Harvard University Professor Cornel West *80, and Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83.
Inspired by the dialogue, the works delve into the truth-seeking mission of colleges and universities. Each creation considers the virtues needed if frontiers of knowledge are to be pushed back,...
Cosponsor: The Princeton University Humanities Council
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Stephen Fried, Journalist; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
By the time he was thirty, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s confidant...
Rushan Abbas, Founder and Director, Campaign for Uyghurs; Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University; Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Moderated by F. Flagg Taylor, Associate Professor of Political Science, Skidmore College
The Chinese Communist Party has reportedly detained between one and three million Uyghurs in Xinjiang in what the Party calls "Vocational Skills Education Training Centers" to "fight against...
Cosponsor: The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University; Marc O. DeGirolami, Cary Fields Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Law and Religion, St. John’s University School of Law; Robert F. Nagel, Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Chair Emeritus in Constitutional Law, University of Colorado
Moderated by Matthew J. Franck, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in Politics, Princeton University
When the Supreme Court strikes down favored legislation, politicians cry judicial activism. When the law is one politicians oppose, the court is heroically righting a wrong. In our polarized moment...