Past Events
3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion featuring Daniel Cullen, Professor of Political Science, Rhodes College; Alicja Gescinska, Philosopher and Novelist; John Haldane, J. Newton Rayzor, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University; and Mark Johnston, Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University.
4:45 p.m. Public Lecture by Sir Roger Scruton, Writer and Philosopher; Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, on Philosophy in the Public Culture.
The following books will be available for sale by Labyrinth Books; the book signing will occur after the lecture, at 6:00 p.m.
On Human Nature (Princeton University Press, 2017)
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The Annual William E. and Carol G. Simon Lecture on Religion in American Public Life
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. Soloveichik *10 is Director of the Zahava and Moshael...
Cosponsor: The Witherspoon Institute’s William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Sohrab Ahmari, Editorial 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...
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Thomas C. Leonard, Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities; Lecturer in Economics, Princeton University; Respondents: Christine Rosen, Senior Editor, The New Atlantis; William Schambra, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
In Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (Princeton University Press, 2016), Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and...
Michael J. Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Sponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs; Book sale/signing and reception to follow.
Michael J. Klarman is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School, where...
Cosponsors: The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, The Program in American Studies
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
Stuart Taylor, Jr. '70, Author; Contributing Editor, National Journal
The evidence that American universities are doing grave damage to our constitutional values -- largely disregarded by the public -- is sitting in plain view. Censorship of views disliked by the...
Cosponsor: The Program in Law and Public Affairs
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Gastón Espinosa, 2016-17 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life; Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religion, Claremont McKenna College
Professor Espinosa explores the religious influences on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and the critical role of race and religion in the 2016 election. He will expose the ways in which candidates...
Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, Emeritus; Senior Scholar in Politics and the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University; Introduction by Jill S. Dolan, Dean of the College; Annan Professor in English, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
Robert P. George holds Princeton’s McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence and is the founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He served as...
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Matthew J. Franck, Director, William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, The Witherspoon Institute; Lucas Morel, Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University; Diana Schaub, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland
This panel of distinguished scholars contribute to the discussion of Princeton's 2016 Pre-Read of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in the Defense of Equality by...
Abrahamic Faith in the “Age of Feeling” – Professor Robert George and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in Dialogue
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, President and Co-Founder, Zaytuna College; and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
Hamza Yusuf is President and Senior Faculty Member of Zaytuna College, America’s first accredited Muslim liberal arts college. He is an advisor to Stanford University’s Program in...
Cosponsor: The Muslim Life Program, Office of Religious Life