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The freedom of academics and students to think and speak freely, on and off campus, has empowered the pursuit of truth and human flourishing. This freedom is currently being challenged on campuses…
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May 20th, 2022 Speaker
Rebekah Adams, Myles McKnight, Solveig Gold, Stuart Taylor, Robert P. George Department
James Madison Program Location
Betts Auditorium
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Join us for a discussion with Elbridge Colby about his book, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict. Colby was the lead architect of the 2018 National Defense…
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May 4th, 2022 Speaker
Elbridge Colby Department
James Madison Program Location
Bowen 222
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The Charles E. Test, M.D. '37 Lectures featuring Professor James W. Ceaser. James W. Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since…
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March 16th, 2022 Speaker
James Ceaser Department
James Madison Program Location
138 Lewis Library
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The Charles E. Test, M.D. '37 Lectures featuring Professor James W. Ceaser. James W. Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since…
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March 15th, 2022 Speaker
James Ceaser Department
James Madison Program Location
138 Lewis Library
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A discussion with Jason Riley on Thomas Sowell and why his writings—on everything from school choice and affirmative action to economic inequality and social justice—continue to be…
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April 7th, 2022 Speaker
Jason Riley Department
James Madison Program Location
Frist 302
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Annual Harold T. Shapiro Lecture on Ethics, Science, and Technology featuring Charles Camosy, Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University There is perhaps no more important value than…
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March 30th, 2022 Speaker
Charles Camosy Department
James Madison Program Location
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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Historically, the Black Church has played a vital role in the black community, spiritually, socially, and politically. In the current period the Black Church, like the church as a whole, is…
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February 24th, 2022 Speaker
Jacqueline C. Rivers Department
James Madison Program Location
Zoom
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Our Dear-Bought Liberty is the history of how early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process.In colonial…
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February 17th, 2022 Speaker
Michael Breidenbach Department
James Madison Program Location
Zoom
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Professor Brewer will explore the contributions that a theory of argument (the Logocratic Method, a philosophical explanation of the nature of arguments and some of their principal uses) can make to…
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December 7th, 2021 Speaker
Professor Scott Brown Department
James Madison Program Location
Bowen 222
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Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor…
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December 2nd, 2021 Speaker
Allen C. Guelzo, James M. McPherson Department
James Madison Program Location
Jimmy Stewart Theater Nassau 185
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Please join us for a discussion between Professor Kevin J. Weddle and Dr. Allen Guelzo on Professor Weddle's new book, The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution(link is…
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November 1st, 2021 Speaker
Kevin J. Weddle Department
James Madison Program Location
Lewis 120
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The lecture will challenge the widespread, even dominant, view of politics as nothing but a vehicle for raw power and domination. Such false realism obfuscates both the very real quest for justice…
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October 27th, 2021 Speaker
Daniel Mahoney Department
James Madison Program Location
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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Understanding planetary habitability is key to understanding how and why life developed on Earth as well as whether life is present on planets that orbit different stars (exoplanets). Whether a…
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October 21st, 2021 Speaker
Dorian Abbot Department
James Madison Program Location
Zoom
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By looking at the lives of African Americans who have found inspiration in the classics we can all learn about the enduring value of these texts. The same fire that burned in the souls of our…
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October 6th, 2021 Speaker
Dr. Anika Prather Department
James Madison Program Location
Zoom
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Join us for a discussion of the Princeton Pre-read selection for the Class of 2025, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility by philosopher and Princeton Class of 2002…
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October 1st, 2021 Speaker
Jennifer Morton, Gabrielle Girgis, Alejandro Rodriguez, Robert P. George Department
James Madison Program Location
Zoom
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Watch the James Madison Program's recent event, "The Baby and the Bathwater: Toward a Recovery of the American Idea." The event was hosted at The Mayflower Hotel and presented in…
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September 23rd, 2021 Speaker
Robert P. George, Ryan T. Anderson, Alexandra DeSanctis, Antonin Scalia Department
Politics Location
The Mayflower Hotel
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