Past Events
Anika Prather, Lecturer at Howard University, and Solveig Gold, Senior Research Assistant in the James Madison Program and PhD Candidate in Classics at the University of Cambridge
By looking at the lives of African Americans who have found inspiration in the classics we can all learn about the enduring value of these texts. The same fire that burned in the souls of our...
Jennifer Morton '02, Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania; Gabrielle Girgis *20, Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar with the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, University of Notre Dame; Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; and Alejandro Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University
Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University
Join us for a discussion of the Princeton Pre-read selection for the Class of 2025, ...
Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University; Ryan T. Anderson, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center
In conversation with Alexandra DeSanctis, Visiting Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; Antonin Scalia, Communications Coordinator, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
Please join us for this discussion of Robert P. George and Ryan T. Anderson's seminal essay, "The Baby and the...
Cosponsor: Ethics and Public Policy Center
The Antonin Scalia Constitution Day Lecture
Donald L. Drakeman *88, Distinguished Research Professor, Program in Constitutional Studies, University of Notre Dame; Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Moderated by Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
Registration for this inaugural Antonin Scalia Constitution Day Lecture is free, required, and available...
Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, Princeton University; Melissa M. Lee, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University; Michael A. Reynolds, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University;
Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
Registration for this event is free, required, and available here...
Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture
With Princeton professors Ruha Benjamin, Amaney Jamal, Kevin Kruse and Aisha Beliso De-Jesús (moderator)
Princeton University annually commemorates the September 17, 1787 signing of the United States Constitution, exploring permutations of constitutional law to the present day. This year, a virtual...
Cosponsors: Program in American Studies, Office of the Provost
Annual Princeton University Reunions Event
Flora Champy, Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Princeton University; Randall Kennedy '77, Michael R. Klein Professor, Harvard Law School; Stuart Taylor, Jr. '70, Journalist and President of Princetonians for Free Speech
Universities are supposed to be institutions devoted to truth-seeking scholarly research and non-indoctrinating teaching. For them to fulfill their missions, basic freedoms—above all liberty of...
James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship
James Hankins, Professor of History, Harvard University, and Allen C. Guelzo, Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities; Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, Princeton University
Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and...
Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law Emerita, Harvard University; Hamza Yusuf Hanson, President and Co-Founder, Zaytuna College; David Novak, J. Richard & Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion and Philosophy, University of Toronto
Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
Please join us for a panel discussion honoring the work of Mary Ann Glendon.
Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law Emerita at Harvard University and a former U.S....
Cosponsor: The Association for the Study of Free Institutions
Steven B. Smith, Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, with Peter Wicks, Scholar-in-Residence, The Elm Institute.
In his new book, Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes, Steven Smith seeks to defend patriotism from critics on the left and right. Patriotism, Smith argues, is rightly understood as...