Past Events
James Madison Program Constitution Day Event
Gordon Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor; Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor Emeritus at Brown University. He...
Cosponsor: Program in American Studies
Keegan Callanan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College; Heather E. Heying, Professor in Exile, formerly of Evergreen State College; Allison Stanger, Russell J. Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics, Middlebury College; Bret Weinstein, Professor in Exile, formerly of Evergreen State College; moderated by Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University, Author of the 2018 Princeton Pre-Read, Speak Freely.
Keegan Callanan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, where he has teaching responsibilities in the history of political philosophy and contemporary...
Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture
Desmond Jagmohan, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University; Respondent: Hendrik A. Hartog, Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty; Professor of History, Princeton University
Desmond Jagmohan is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He researches and teaches history of political theory, and he works primarily at the...
Cosponsors: James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, The Program in Law and Public Affairs
Annual Princeton University Reunions Event
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
How did the framers of the Constitution seek to prevent tyranny and protect liberty? How should we adjudicate among competing approaches to their handiwork? Generations of Princeton students have...
Organized by Maurizio Viroli, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Princeton University, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin, Professore di Comunicazione Politica, Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Cosponsor: James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
The Annual Robert J. Giuffra '82 Conference
Keynote Address: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University, in conversation with Meir Y. Soloveichik, Rabbi, Congregation Shearith Israel; Director, Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Yeshiva University
When asked what kind of government the Constitutional Convention had proposed for America, Benjamin Franklin is said to have replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Franklin’s remark reminds us...
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Reflections on Leslie G. Rubin's America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class (Baylor University Press, 2018)
Robert K. Faulkner, Research Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Matthew J. Franck, Director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, Witherspoon Institute; Carson Holloway, Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Visiting Scholar, Heritage Foundation; Mary Nichols, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Baylor University; Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
The founders of the American regime prided themselves on having a “new science of politics” that would make republicanism a successful form of government for the first time in history. In a...
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Ryan T. Anderson ‘04, William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles & Public Policy, Heritage Foundation; John Corvino, Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University; Sherif Girgis ’08, Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy, Princeton University; J.D., Yale Law School, responses from Christopher Tollefsen, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Kevin Vallier, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University; Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, Princeton University.
Virtually everyone supports religious liberty and opposes discrimination. But how do we handle the hard questions that arise when exercises of religious liberty seem to discriminate unjustly? How do...
Robert Whaples, Research Fellow, Independent Institute; Co-Editor, The Independent Review; editor of the book, Pope Francis and the Caring Society; Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University; Respondent: Samuel Gregg, Director of Research, Acton Institute.
This talk will consider whether capitalism works well and whether it can be a caring society. It will begin with an overview of what economists see as the strengths of capitalism, then detail what...
Cosponsor: The Aquinas Institute
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
Heather Gerken '91, Dean; Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Sanctuary cities. Marijuana legalization. Environmental reform. Federalism has long been the darling of conservatives, but progressives are increasingly turning to state and local power in the age...
Cosponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs