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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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Do Supreme Court justices really just call balls and strikes, or are the Court’s decisions merely politics by another name? When we read that judges are originalists or favor a living…
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September 22nd, 2021 Speaker
Donald L. Drakeman, Keith E. Whittington, Robert P. George Department
James Madison Program Location
Zoom
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America's precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan has raised a number of important questions that this panel hopes to address. Among these are: Is this event a sign of America’s loss of…
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September 15th, 2021 Speaker
Bernard Haykel, Melissa M. Lee, Michael A. Reynolds, Robert P. George Department
James Madison Program Location
Zoom
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An America’s Founding and Future Lecture Following the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others by law enforcement officers, the reform of policing practices and police…
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July 9th, 2020 Speaker
Rev. Eugene F. Rivers, III, Founding Director, Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies in conversation with Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University Department
James Madison Program, Politics Location
Zoom Webinar
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The novel coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the typical flow of American education at every level, from K-12 schooling to collegiate and graduate studies. When the pandemic ends, will our…
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May 11th, 2020 Speaker
William Damon, Professor of Education, Director of the Center on Adolescence, and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Michael J. Petrilli, President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; Cecilia Elena Rouse, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Katzman-Ernst Professor in Economics and Education, and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University; Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, Princeton University. Department
James Madison Program, Politics Location
Zoom Webinar
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Allen C. Guelzo, Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program, Princeton University and Robert P.…
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April 9th, 2020 Speaker
Allen C. Guelzo, Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program, Princeton University and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, Princeton University Department
James Madison Program, Politics Location
Zoom Webinar
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March 30th, 2020 Speaker
Nicholas A. Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale University, and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University Department
James Madison Program, Politics
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Professor Christakis is a leading authority on contagions, both biological and ideological. He has been a very important voice in ensuring that consideration of COVID-19 is fact-based and rooted in…
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March 30th, 2020 Speaker
Nicholas A. Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale University, and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University Department
James Madison Program, Politics
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Catholics, Protestants, and Jews are not well known for getting along; throughout the twentieth century, however, Americans of all three faiths formed a religious consensus that rested on a shared…
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February 5th, 2020 Speaker
James M. Patterson, Associate Professor of Politics, Ave Maria University Department
James Madison Program, Politics Location
Lewis Library 120
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