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The life of John Witherspoon (1723-1794) falls neatly into two halves: the first part of his career as a parish minister in Scotland and the second half of his…
John Witherspoon and the Spirit of 1776 with…
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On Wednesday, November 19th, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies held a staged reading of Lawrence in Lahore: The Lost Years. The dramatic reading was performed…
GSS Presents “Lawrence in Lahore”
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On December 4, 2025, the James Madison Program hosted Daniel Mark for a lecture titled, "The Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good."…
The Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the…
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On November 17, 2025, the James Madison Program hosted Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson for a panel titled, "Hopeful Realism: Evangelical…
Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and…
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On November 13, 2025, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions hosted Richard Ekins for a lecture titled, "The Inherited…
The Inherited Constitution with Richard Ekins
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On November 11, 2025, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions hosted Yuval Levin for a lecture titled, "How Should We Celebrate…
How Should We Celebrate America's 250th?…
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The Founding Fathers -- such as John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington -- knew their Hebrew Bible backwards and forwards,…
Jews, Judaism, and the American Founding with…
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On October 21, 2025, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions hosted Jennifer A. Frey for the annual Stuart Lecture on Institutional Corruption…
What is a University and How Can We Recover It?…
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” So…
Do We Still "Hold these Truths"? The…
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On May 23, 2025, Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, and Cornel West, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of…
Truth Matters: Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of…
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On May 8, 2025, the James Madison Program hosted the Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom. The lecture was…
Adam Smith on the Death of Nations with Ryan…
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On May 1, 2025, the James Madison Program hosted J. Joel Alicea for the Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles, titled, "Bruen and…
Bruen and the Founding-Era Conception of Rights…
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On April 23, 2025, the Madison Program hosted Brandice Canes-Wrone for the Annual Elizabeth M. Whelan Lecture, titled, "Threats to Universities and What We Can…
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do with…
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On April 10, 2025, the James Madison Program hosted William English for a talk titled, "The Institutional Corruption of News Media - Causes, Consequences, and…
The Institutional Corruption of News Media with…
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Lecture 2/2: Noble Lies and Democracy Under Covid Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics:…
Lecture 2/2 - In Covid's Wake: Science,…
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In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, many writers and commentators have signed woke’s death warrant. However, this ignores the fact that young people…
Woke is Not Dead: The Future of Cancel Culture…
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