In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery politics of Vice President John Breckinridge of Kentucky. This lecture will argue that Lincoln was a savvy but principled politician who tried to…
This talk will discuss the political motives and reasons for censorship. It will go on to explore the censorial attitude more generally, with a focus on self-censorship: both voluntary self-repression from a rational fear of reprisal and the unconscious self-censorship of perception which belongs to human nature at all times but is especially…
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Lecture 1: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy
There is widespread agreement that liberal democracy is in crisis at home and abroad. But what is the…
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Lecture 1: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy
There is widespread agreement that liberal democracy is in crisis at home and abroad. But what is the…
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education,…
Tolerance is usually regarded as “the quintessential liberal value.” This position is supported by a standard liberal history that views religious toleration as emerging from the post-Reformation wars of religion as the solution to the problem of religious violence. Requiring the separation of church from state, tolerance was secured by giving…
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Freeing the Mind: What Truly Matters in a Princeton Education
What’s the point of a Princeton education? What is liberal arts learning all about? How can students make the most of opportunities afforded to them by liberal arts colleges and universities? Two of Princeton’s most distinguished scholars and…
Today’s Supreme Court professes a commitment to originalism—the idea that the Constitution’s meaning is fixed at ratification and binds judges today. But in interpreting the Constitution, the Court often looks to the post-ratification practices of other actors: Presidents, Congresses, or states. The Court has held, for example,…