On December 3, 2017, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and James Madison Program Director, Robert George, and Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, and 2016-17 Senior Scholar of the James Madison Program, were guests on C-Span2’s Book TV discussing…

Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Research Associate, Matthew W. Slaboch, for the recent release of his first book, A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics (University of Pennsylvania Press, December 2017).

We are scholars and teachers at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale who have some thoughts to share and advice to offer students who are headed off to colleges around the country. Our advice can be distilled to three words:

Think for yourself.

Now, that might sound easy. But you will find—as you…

The James Madison Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Stephen Whelan '68 Senior Thesis Prize for Excellence in Constitutional Law and Political Thought. This year there are two winners; Alexander Costin '17 for his thesis on "The Lochner Era in the Lower Courts," and Owen Smitherman '17…

Each year the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions hosts scholars with established records as well as scholars who have recently received their doctorates as Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Research Associates. Scholars in the James Madison Program pursue their own research and writing, participate in courses, seminars…

The pursuit of knowledge and the maintenance of a free and democratic society require the cultivation and practice of the virtues of intellectual humility, openness of mind, and, above all, love of truth. These virtues will manifest themselves and be strengthened by one’s willingness to listen attentively and respectfully to intelligent people…

To Undergraduate Fellows of the James Madison Program:

If I may intrude on your time for a moment, I would like to share with you some thoughts and advice. You are at Princeton to learn—from the faculty, from visiting speakers, from each other. It is a precious opportunity, and I urge you to make the most of it.

Making the…

On November 4th, Oxford University conferred on Robert P. George the degrees of Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) and Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) at its degree granting ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre.

The degree, which is one of Oxford's higher doctorates, is sometimes conferred by Diploma on foreign heads of state and on the…

Congratulations to our Director, Robert P. George, recipient of the American Enterprise Institute’s 2016 Irving Kristol Award. The Irving Kristol Award is the highest honor conferred by the American Enterprise Institute. AEI gives the award annually to an individual who has made exceptional intellectual and…

The James Madison Program is pleased to announce its esteemed group of Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Research Associates for the 2016-17 academic year. They are:

Randy Beck, 2016-17 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow; Justice Thomas O. Marshall Chair of…

The James Madison Program at Princeton University mourns the loss of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, jurist, jurisprude, constitutionalist, and patriot. His many kindnesses to our Program and our Undergraduate Fellows Forum will not be forgotten.