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| CPET - Government and Political Education Series (GPES) |
The Government and Political Education Series (GPES)
Description of the Series Directed by Dr. Bradley C.S. Watson, the Center's Fellow in Politics and Culture, the Government and Political Education Program is dedicated to the scholarly exposition of America's constitutional order, and order rooted in the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the American founding experience.
Past LecturesThe Center for Political and Economic Thought is pleased to provide a list of the past lectures presented at the Government and Political Education Lecture Series. To easily navigate through and locate past lectures, simply click the desired lecture academic year below. 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.
Academic Lecture Year 2009 - 2010 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | 09-23-2009 | Dr. Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg College | A. Lincoln, Philosopher: Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas | Download |
Academic Lecture Year 2008 - 2009 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | 09-17-2008 | Michael I. Krauss, George Mason U. Law School | To Heller and Beyond: Self-Defense, and the Second Amendment | Download | 10-22-2008 | Fr. Joseph Kroterski, Fordham University | The City of God and the City of Men: Augustine's Argument and Some Applications for Today | Download | 01-21-2009 | Diana J. Schaub, Loyla College in Maryland | Bioethics and the Constitution: What Would the Founders Say? | Download | 02-18-2009 | Dr. Scott Yenor, Boise State | How to Think About the Family in a Liberal Society | Download |
Academic Lecture Year 2007 - 2008 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | 09-19-2007 | Dr. E. Christian Kopff, University of Colorado | Traditionalism of the American Founding | Unavailable | 10-24-2007 | Dr. Leonard P. Liggio, Atlas Economic Research Foundation | Middle Ages and Monasticism | Download | 01-23-2008 | Dr. Robert V. Young, North Carolina State University | Literature and Morality | Download | 02-20-2008 | Dr. Patrick J. Deneen, Georgetown University | The Alternative Tradition in American Political Thought | Download |
Academic Lecture Year 2006 - 2007 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | 09-20-2006 | Dr. Paul Moreno, Hillsdale College | How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Federalism | Unavailable | 01-24-2007 | Dr. Gleaves Whitney, Grand Valley State University | America's Founders and the Ring of Gyges | Unavailable | Not Listed | Pamela Jensen, Kenyon College | Invisible Men: Ralph Ellison's Defense of the Melting Pot | Unavailable |
Academic Lecture Year 2005 - 2006 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. Stephen Knott, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia | The Constitutional Legacy of Alexander Hamilton | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Bradley Thompson, Executive Director of Clemson Capitalism Initiative, Clemson University BB&T Research Fellow | Our Killing Schools | Unavailable | Not Listed | Mr. James Lambright, Chairman and Acting President, Export-Import Bank of the United States | When the U.S. Exports: America Works | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Alan Levine, Associate Professor of Political Theory, American University | The Idea of America in European Political Thought: 1492 to 9/11 | Unavailable |
Academic Lecture Year 2004 - 2005 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. Bradford Wilson, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions Lecturer, Princeton University | Liberal Constitutionalism and the American University | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. V. Phillip Munoz, Assistant Professor of Political Science, North Carolina State University | Under God? The First Amendment and the American Founding | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Francis J. Beckwith, Baylor University | Roe v. Wade: Its Logic and Legacy | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Ronald J. Pestritto, University of Dallas | Woodrow Wilson: Father of Modern America? | Unavailable |
Academic Lecture Year 2003 - 2004 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Mike Fisher, Pennsylvania State Attorney General | Constitution Day Address | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. James Stoner, Professor of Political Science, Louisiana State University | Christian Socrates? The Apology of Thomas More | Unavailable | Not Listed | Francis H. Buckley, Professor of Law, George Mason University | Private and Social Perfectionism | Unavailable | Not Listed | Adam Kieper, Managing Editor, The New Atlantis | Space Exploration and American Character | Unavailable |
Academic Lecture Year 2002 - 2003 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. Larry Arnn, President, Hillsdale College | Constitution Day Address | Unavailable |
Academic Lecture Year 2001 - 2002 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. Michael Zuckert, Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Government, University of Notre Dame | What Was So Great About the Founding Fathers Anyway? | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Lucas E. Morel, Assistant Professor of Politics, Washinton and Lee University | Ralph Ellison's America: On the Politics of Prejudice, Perseverance and Possibility | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Jean M. Yarbrough, Gary M. Pendy Professor of Social Sciences Department of Government and Legal Studies Bowdoin College | Teddy Roosevelt and the Search for a Usable Past | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. David F. Forte, Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University | Islam: Its Past, and Future | Unavailable |
Academic Lecture Year 2000 - 2001 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. Ken Masugi, Director, Center for Local Government - The Claremont Institute | The Constitution Versus The Civil Religion Of Multiculturalism: What Clarence Thomas Taught Me | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Alan Charles Kors, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania | Western Civilization At the Dawn of the 21st Century | Unavailable | Not Listed | Mr. Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, The CATO Institute | Globalization: Threat or Boon to a Starving World | Unavailable | Not Listed | Mark Edward Rush, Associate Professor of Politics: Washington and Lee University | Foraging in the Political Thicket: The Supreme Court and The Right of Political Association | Unavailable |
Academic Lecture Year 1999 - 2000 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. Ralph A. Rossum, Professor of American Constitutionalism, Claremont McKenna College | Federalism, Constitutional Structure, and the Securing of Liberty Salvatori | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Michael I Krauss, Professor of Law, George Mason University | Government Products Liability Suits: Economic Illiteracy and the Collapse of the Rule of Law | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Stephen J. Entin, President and Executive Driector, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation | The Political Economy of the U.S. Tax System | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Randy T. Simmons, Professor of Political Science, Utah State University | Liberty and the Environment | Unavailable | | Not Listed | Dr. Herman Belz, Professor of History, University of Marlyand | Affirmative Action and American Equality | Unavailable |
Academic Lecture Year 1998 - 1999 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Hon. Eugene W. Hickok, Jr., Pennsylvania Secretary of Education | The Constitution and Executive Power | Unavailable | Not Listed | Stanley C. Brubaker, Professor of Political Science, Director of Colgate Washington Study Group, Colgate University | Are Campaign Spending Limits Good for Democracy | Unavailable | | Not Listed | Harvey C. Mansfield, Professor of Government, Harvard University | Machiavelli's New Prince | Unavailable | | Not Listed | Joseph M. Bessette, Associate Professor of Government Claremont Mckenna College | Justice and Punishment: Crime, Public Opinion, and Democratic Politics | Unavailable |
Academic Lecture Year 1997 - 1998 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. Thomas G. West, Professor of Politics at University of Dallas | Was The American Founding Unjust? The Case of Property Rights and the Poor | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Jeffrey K. Tulis, Professor of Political Science at University of Texas | Today's Neo-Whig Presidency | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Peter Augustine Lawler, Professor of Political Science at Berry College | Twentieth Century Thomism: The Catholic Tradition in Today's Political Thought | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | The First One-Hundred Days of the Clinton Administration and Prospects for the Future | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Thomas E. Mann,Director, Governmental Studies and the W. Averell Harriman Chair in
American Governance at the Brookings Institute, Washington, DC | Institutional Reform and Democratic Renewal | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Michael J. Malbin,Professor of Political Science, S.U.N.Y. at Albany, Director of The
Center for Legislative Studies at SUNY Rockefeller Institute of
Government | Undivided Government? Predictions on Clinton's Relations with Congress | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Lawrence Mead, Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University and Professor of Politics at New York
University | The Politics of Welfare Reform | Unavailable | Not Listed | Mr. Daniel Mitchell, McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy at The Heritage Foundation | Are Republicans Living up to their Mandate? | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York | Prospects for the Renewal of Civil Society | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Frank I. Luntz, President, Luntz Research Companies | Republican Candidate: Issues and Public Opinion | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Grover G. Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform | The 'Leave Us Alone' Coalition and the 1996 Elections | Unavailable | Not Listed | Mr. John Fund, Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal | Divided Government: Gridlock or Cooperation? | Unavailable | Not Listed | Mr. William Kristol, Editor and Publisher, The Weekly Standard | 1997--The New Political Era? | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. James W. Ceaser, Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at University of Virginia | The Symbol of America in Modern Political Thought | Unavailable |
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