CPET - Culture and Policy Conferences Program (CAPC)

Past Lectures

The Center for Political and Economic Thought is pleased to provide a list of the past lectures presented at the Culture and Policy Conferences Lecture Series. To easily navigate through and locate past lectures, simply click the desired lecture year below.

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2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998
1997	1996	1995	1994	1993	1992
1991	1990	1989	1988	1987	1986

Note: In some cases, the lecture may be available for download (in text format) online. If this is the case, the Lecture Topic will be listed as a hyperlink below. If you are interested in an article not available online, please click here to fill out a contact form and request the article.

Lecture Year 2009 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic Theme: The Idea of the American University	Download Audio
Not Listed	John Agresto, Princeton University	One Cheer for the Liberal Arts. . . Maybe Two	Download
Not Listed	William B. Allen, Michigan State University	Now that College is the New High School, Where Do We Go to Get and Education?	Download
Not Listed	Michael P. Foley, Baylor University	Saint Augustine, the University, and the So-Called Liberal Arts	Download
Not Listed	Gary D. Glenn, Northern Illinois University	From Civilizational Memory and the Upward Lifting of Souls, to Upward Mobility to Opening Social Mores: The Going Down of University Education in one Professor's Lifetime	Download
Not Listed	Susan E. Hanssen, University of Dallas	Eccentric Education - The American Way	Download
Not Listed	Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College	Dignity and Higher Education Today	Download
Not Listed	William Mathie, Brock University	Socrates in America	Download
Not Listed	Fr. James V Schall, Georgetown University	Universitas Sine Universo: on the Home of Truth When There is no Truth	Download
Not Listed	Peter W. Wood, National Association of Scholars	Roller of Big Cigars: THe American University as Cheerful Mortician	Download

Lecture Year 2007 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic Theme: Ourselves and Posterity	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Hadley Arkes , Armherst College	Can the Hearings for Judges Become a Seminar?: A Classroom Filled with Dangers	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Stanley Brubanker, Princeton University	A Constitution to Die for?: Congressional Authority to Raise an Army	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Robert Clinton, Southern Illinois University Carbondale	Classical Constitutional Jurisprudence, Legal Naturalism, and the Normative Force of History	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Matthew Franck, Radford University	Freedom Questions, Political Questions: Republicanism and the Myth of a "Bill of Rights"	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Robert George, Princeton University	Judicial Usurpation: Perennial Temptation, Permanent Threat	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Alan Gibson	Why that Old Dog Still Won't Hunt: The Failure of Originalists to Establish the Authority of the Framers' Constitution, California State University, Chico	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Henneth Kersch	Neoconservatism and Constitutional Interpretation, 1965-1980, Princeton University	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Jack E. Nowlin, University of Mississippi	Authority Doctrines and the Proper Judicial Role: Judicial Supremacy, Stare Decisis and the Concept of Judicial Constitutional Violations	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Ralph Rossum, Claremont McKenna College	"Common-Sense" Constitutionalism: From Story to Scalia	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Christopher Wolfe, Marquette University	The Supreme Court and the Transformation of Social Mores	Unavailable

Lecture Year 2005 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic Theme: The West at War	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair in Islamic Studies and Professor of International Relations, American University	A Failure of Immigration: Thinking about Culture, Tradition, and Society After 9/11	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Robert Alt, John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, Ashland University	Regime Change in Iraq: The View from the Ground	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Alberto Coll, Naval War College	True Liberty and Law: Fighting the War Against Terrorism without Surrendering Our Values	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Barry Cooper, University of Calgary	Understanding Terorism After 9/11	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. David Corey, Baylor University	Neither Niebuhr nor Yoder: The Christian Just-War Tradition	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Leon Craig, University of Alberta	The Liberal Regime Under Attack	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. James Kurth, Swarthmore College	Western Identities versus Islamic Terrorists: Christians, Liberals, and Pagans at War	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Paul Marshall, Freedom House	Understanding Radical Islam	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. David Tucker, Naval Postgraduate School	Terrorism and the Western Way of Warfare	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Ken Weinstein, Hudson Institute	No tolerance for the Intolerant: Lessons from Early Modern Political Philosophy for the War on Terror	Unavailable

Lecture Year 2003 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic Theme: Civic Education and Culture	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Stephen Balch, President, National Association of Scholars	Liberal Education and Civic Education for Our Time	Unavailable
Not Listed	Lieutenant General Josiah Bunting III, Virginia Military Institute	Barbarians at the Gates: Enemies of Character	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. William Desmond, Hoger Instituut Wijsbegeerte	Autonomy, Loyalty, and Civic Piety	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. John Fonte, Hudson Institute	Is the Purpose of Civic Education to Transmit or Transform the American Regime?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Timothy Fuller, Colorado College	Restoring the Essential Experience of Liberal Learning: Transcendence and the Study of Politics in the University	Unavailable
Not Listed	Roger Kimball, Managing Editor, The New Criterion	On Liberty, or, How John Stewart Mill Went Wrong	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Thomas Pangle, University of Toronto	Should Felons Vote? A Pardigmatic Debate Over the Meaning of Civic Responsibility	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Colleen Sheehan, Villanova University	The Commerce of Ideas and the Cultivation of Character in Madison's Republic	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Abigail Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute	Closing the Racial Gap: Culture Matters	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Bruce Thornton Critical, Professor of Classics, California State University Fresno	Consciousness and Liberal Education	Unavailable

Lecture Year 2001 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic Theme: Courts and the Culture Wars	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Robert Bork, John M. Olin Scholar in Legal Studies, American Enterprise Institute	Courts and the Culture Wars	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Murray Dry, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College	Tolerance And American Constitutionalism: The Case of Gay Rights	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. John C. Eastman, Professor of Constitutional Law, Chapman University School of Law	The One-Way Ratchet and Other Problems With 'Stare Decisis' for Cultural Conservatives	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Edward J. Erler, Professor of Political Science, California State University	The California Supreme Court in the Culture Wars: A Case Study In Judicial Failure	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Christopher Manfredi, Professor of Political Science, McGill University	Courts, Culture and Community	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Anthony Peacock, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Utah State University	Race, Representation, and the Constitution: The Multicultural Challenge to Commercial Republicanism	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Charles E. Rice, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School	The Right To Live, The Higher Law, and the Courts	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Graham Walker, Associate Professor of Politics, The Catholic University of America	Religious Freedom Without Religious Neutrality: Our Once and Future Constitutional Common Sense	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Keith E. Whittington, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University	The Death of the Legal Constitution and the Spector of Judicial Review	Unavailable
Not Listed	Fr. Francis Canavan, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Fordham University	From Ockkam To Blackmum: The Philosophical Roots of Liberal Jurisprudence	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Jeremy Rabkin, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University	Who Owns The Right To Privacy	Unavailable

Lecture Year 1999 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic Theme: Public Morality, Civic Virtue, and the Problem of Modern Liberalism	Download Audio
Not Listed	Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ph.D., Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago Divinity School.	Religion and Civil Society Laura Spelman Rockefeller	Unavailable
Not Listed	Leonard P. Liggio, Ph.D., Research Professor, George Mason University School of Law, and Executive Vice President, Atlas Economic Research Foundation	Liberty And Order In The Western Tradition	Unavailable
Not Listed	Daniel J. Mahoney, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Politics, Assumption College	Liberal Democracy And Moral Foundations	Unavailable
Not Listed	Gilbert Meilaender, Ph.D., Board of Directors, Professor of Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University	Fleeing the Universal: The Problem of Relativism	Unavailable
Not Listed	Douglas J. Den Uyl, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Bellarmine College	The Formation of Character and Modern Liberalism	Unavailable
Not Listed	Wilfred McClay, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Tulane University	Judeo-Christian Tradition and Liberal Tradition in the American Republic	Unavailable
Not Listed	Catherine Heldt Zuckert, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame	Scientific Rationality vs. Morality	Unavailable
Not Listed	Peter Berkowitz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University	Public Philosophy and Postmodernity	Unavailable
Not Listed	Christopher Wolfe, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Marquette University	A Public Philosophy for Contemporary America	Unavailable

Lecture Year 1997 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic Theme: The Political Order and Culture: Toward the Renewal of Civilization	Download Audio
Not Listed	Hilton Kramer, Editor and Publisher, The New Criterion and Art Critic, New York Observer	Institutionalizing the Counterculture	Unavailable
Not Listed	Claes G. Ryn, Ph.D., Professor of Politics, Catholic University of America, Chairman, National Humanities Institute and Editor, Humanities	Cultural Origins of Politics: The Modern Imagination of Escape	Unavailable
Not Listed	Joyce Little, Ph.D., Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas	Christianity and the Spirit of the Age	Unavailable
Not Listed	Charles R. Kesler, Ph.D., Director, The Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World and Associate Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College	The Founding Fathers and American Culture	Unavailable
Not Listed	William B. Allen, Ph.D., Dean, James Madison College, Michigan State University	Radical Challenges to Liberal Democracy	Unavailable
Not Listed	Stephen J. Tonsor, III, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of History, University of Michigan and Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute	What to Do While Awaiting the Apocalypse: The Role of Creative Minorities in a Time of Cultural Crisis	Unavailable
Not Listed	Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Ph.D., Eléonore Raoul Professor of Humanities and Professor of History, Emory University	Women in a Changing World: The Consequences and the Implications	Unavailable
Not Listed	Robert P. George, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University and Practicing Constitutional Lawyer serving a six-year term on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights	Marriage and Illusion of Moral Neutrality	Unavailable
Not Listed	Hadley Arkes, Ph.D., Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions, Amherst College and Contributing Editor, National Review	The Law and the Loss of Urbanity	Unavailable
Not Listed	Martha Bayles, Ph.D., Literary Editor, Wilson Quarterly	Immunity, Not Surgery: Why it is Better to Exert Cultural Authority than to Impose Censorship	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dinesh D'Souza, John M. Olin Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute	Multiculturalism and the Problem of Cultural Relativism	Unavailable
Not Listed	Ralph McInerny, Ph.D., Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies and Director, Jaques Maritain Center	Revolt of the Masses Revisited	Unavailable

Lecture Year 1995 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic Theme: Culture in Crisis and the Renewal of Civil Life	Download Audio
Not Listed	James Q. Wilson, Ph.D., James Collins Professor of Management, University of California, Los Angeles	Culture, Crime, and Human Nature	Unavailable
Not Listed	Don E. Eberly, Founder and President, Commonwealth Foundation and Founder and President, National Fatherhood Initiative	Family, Fatherhood, and Socialization	Unavailable
Not Listed	Glenn C. Loury, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Boston University and Chairman, Center for New Black Leadership	Values and Judgements: Creating Incentives for Good Behavior	Unavailable
Not Listed	Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity and Syndicated Columnist, USA Today	Ethnicity and Immigration	Unavailable
Not Listed	Heather R. Higgins, M.B.A., Executive Director, Council on Culture and Community and Senior Fellow, Progress and Freedom Foundation	Politics of Cultural Wars	Unavailable
Not Listed	Midge Decter, Distinguished Fellow, Institute on Religion and Public Life	Who Killed Dr. Kildare?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Robert Royal, Ph.D., John M. Olin Fellow in Religion and Society and Vice President, Ethics and Public Policy Center	The Restoration of Citizenship and Civic Culture	Unavailable
Not Listed	Gertrude Himmelfarb, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of History, Graduate School of the City University of New York	The Renewal of Civil Society	Unavailable
Not Listed	Russell Hittinger, Ph.D., Warren Professor of Catholic Studies, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tulsa and Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research	Religion and the Secular Retreat from Modernity	Unavailable
Not Listed	T. William Boxx, M.A., Chairman, Philip M. McKenna Foundation	Christian Principles and Public Life	Unavailable
Not Listed	Michael Novak, M.A., Former U.S. Ambassador and George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy, American Enterprise Institute	Culture Wars, Moral Wars	Unavailable

Lecture Year 1993 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic Theme: The Culture Context of Economics and Politics	Download Audio
Not Listed	T. William Boxx, M.A., Chairman, Philip M. McKenna Foundation and Gary M. Quinlivan, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Political and Economic Thought	The Cultural Context of Economics and Politics	Unavailable
Not Listed	Thomas Sowell, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University	Culture, Economics and Politics	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dwight R. Lee, Ph.D., Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise and Professor of Economics, University of Georgia	Go to Harvard and Turn Left: The Rise of Socialist Ideology in Higher Education	Unavailable
Not Listed	S. Robert Lichter, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Media and Public Affairs and Visiting Lecturer at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University	Economic and Political Perspectives in the Entertainment Media	Unavailable
Not Listed	George Weigel, M.A., President of Ethics and Public Policy Center	Taking Care of Business, Taking Care of Culture: The American Corporation and the American Culture Wars	Unavailable
Not Listed	Don Lavoie, Ph.D., Director, Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs and Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University	Cultural Studies and the Conditions for Entrepreneurship	Unavailable
Not Listed	Peter L. Berger, Ph.D., Director, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture and Professor of Sociology, Boston University	Our Economic Culture	Unavailable
Not Listed	Brigitte Berger, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Boston University	The Family Connection in Democratic Capitalist Societies	Unavailable

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