Civitas Forum on Principles and Policies for Public Life (CIVITAS)
Description of the Series The Civitas Forum is directed by Dr. Bradley C.S. Watson, the Center's Fellow in Politics and Culture. As suggested by its name, this program is concerned with the realm of citizenship and the common good. The Forum seeks to identify and expound upon the principles of a free and well-ordered society in the American and Western tradition and to examine contemporary issues in relation to such principles. Through an annual half-day symposium, the Civitas Forum brings to campus an eclectic blend of scholars and experts to address ideas and issues pertaining to the civic traditions of America's founding and their moral-cultural underpinnings.
Past LecturesThe Center for Political and Economic Thought is pleased to provide a list of the past lectures presented at the Civitas Forum on Principles and Policies for Public Life Lecture Series. To easily navigate through and locate past lectures, simply click the desired lecture 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.
Lecture Year 2008 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | 10-08-2008 | Malcolm A. Kline, academia.org and Conservative Voice | From Locker Rooms to Laboratories: Title IX Gets Scientific | Download | | 10-08-2008 | Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer-Busch, Christopher Newport University | Title IX and Science: Natural Allies or Enemies? | Download | | 10-08-2008 | Jessica Gavora, Freelance Writer | Title IX in the Sciences: Why it Was Inevitable, Playing field: Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX | Download | | 10-08-2008 | Dr. John Smetanka, Saint Vincent College | Women in Physics: Cause and Effect | Download |
Lecture Year 2007 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | 10-10-2007 | David Frisk, Claremont Graduate School | Young Men in a Hurry: William F. Buckley, Jr., William Rusher, and National Review's Call to Arms 1955-1964 | Download | 10-10-2007 | Rafe Major, University of Michigan | The Fall of The Wall and the Search for the Principles of Convervatism | Download | 10-10-2007 | Michael Tanner, CATO Institute | The Rise of Big Government Conservatism | Download | 10-10-2007 | Johan Goldberg, National Review Online | The Permanence of Conservatism | Download |
Lecture Year 2006 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | 10-04-2006 | Michael Anton (The Claremont Institute),
L. Brent Bozell (Media Research Center),
Dr. Jay Richards (Discovery Institute), and
Nick Schulz (Tech Central Station) | Alternative/Conservative Media | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 2005 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Stephen A. Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies | Contemporary Immigration Issues and Challenges | Unavailable | Not Listed | Daniel T. Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, CATO Institute | Fixing America's Dysfunctional Immigration System | Unavailable | Not Listed | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Claremont Institute Senior Fellow, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hillsdale College | Citizenship and Multicultrualism | Unavailable | Not Listed | Noah Pickus, Associate Director, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University | Immigration and American Civic Nationalism
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Lecture Year 2004 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Amy E. Black, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, Wheaton College | God Is On Our Side: Religion and Campaign 2004 | Unavailable | Not Listed | John C. Fortier, Research Fellow and Executive Director, Continuity of Government Commission, American Enterprise Institute | Terrorist Attacks On Our Elections | Unavailable | Not Listed | Richard Dougherty, Professor of Political Science, University of Dallas | The Election was a Necessity: American Presidential Election in War Time | Unavailable | Not Listed | Morris Fiorina, Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University | The Myth of a Polarized America | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 2003 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | None | No lectures available for this lecture year. | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 2002 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Eloise Anderson, Director, Project for the American Family, Claremont Institute | Thinking About Child Protection | Unavailable | Not Listed | Susan Orr, Associate Commissioner, Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | The Forgotten World of Child Welfare | Unavailable | Not Listed | Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO, Pacific Research Institute | False Promise of Single-Payer Health-Care: A Close Look Inside the California Health Security Act | Unavailable | Not Listed | Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow, Welfare and Family Issues, The Heritage Foundation | Marriage, Poverty and Welfare Reform | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 2001 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. Andrew E. Busch, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Denver | Ronald Reagan and the Statesmanship of Liberty | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Elizabeth Spalding, Assistant Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College | President Reagan's Statesmanship in the Cold War | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Thomas B. Silver, President, The Claremont Institute | Reagan's Failure | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Paul Kengor, Associate Professor of Political Science, Grove City College | The Legacy of Ronald Reagan: The Academic View | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 2000 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. Peter W. Schramm, Executive Director, John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs | Ethics and Politics According to Booker T. Washington: Citizenship Rightly Understood | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Fariborz L. MokhtariDirector, Military Graduate Program, Norwich University | Ethics and Society: Civilian vs. Military Approaches | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Adam Wolfson, Executive Editor, The Public Interest | Why Liberals go to War: The Case of Kosovo | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. James H. Nichols, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Claremont McKenna College | Rethinking Politics for the Next Generation of Liberalism | Unavailable | | Not Listed | Dr. Todd R. Flanders, Director of Programs, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty | Macintyre's Imprudence | Unavailable | | Not Listed | Dr. Bradley C.S. Watson, Fellow in Politics and Policy, Center for Political and Economic Thought, Saint Vincent College
| Impeachment's Wake | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 1999 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Dr. David Lowenthal, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Boston College | Liberalism: Its Glories, Failures, and Prospects | Unavailable | Not Listed | Dr. Peter McNamara, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Utah State University | Locke, Civil Society, and the Spirit of Liberalism | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 1998 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Glen E. Thurow, Provost and Professor of Politics, University of Dallas | The Guardian of Liberty?: American Education At The Millenium | Unavailable | Not Listed | Paul A. Rahe, Jay P. Walker Professor of American History | Soft Despotism: Democracy's Drift | Unavailable | | Not Listed | Dr. Angelo Codevilla, Professor of International Relations, Boston University | Shaping Our Character Through Government | Unavailable | | Not Listed | Dr. David Walsh, Professor of Politics, Catholic University of America | The Perennial Experiment In Liberty | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 1997 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | William H. Lash, III,
Adjunct Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business,
Washington University and Professor of Law, George Mason University
School of Law | The Free Market and the Free Society | Unavailable | Not Listed | Gerard V. Bradley, Professor
of Law, Notre Dame Law School, President, Fellowship of Catholic
Scholars, Co-Editor, American Journal of Jurisprudence and Vice
President, American Philosophy Institute | Law and Morality | Unavailable | Not Listed | Robert A. Destro, Professor of Law, Columbus School of Law Catholic University of America | Citizenship and Community: Legacy and Challenge | Unavailable | Not Listed | R. Alexander Acosta, Director, Project on the Judiciary, Ethics and Public Policy Center | Judicial Activism and Self Government | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 1996 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | David Brooks, Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard and commentator for National Public Radio. s "All Things Considered" | Politics and the Renewal of Culture | Unavailable | Not Listed | James Nuechterlein, Editor, First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life and
Associate Director, Institute on Religion and Public Life | Religion and Politics: The Legacy of Reinhold Niebuhr | Unavailable | Not Listed | Robert Benne, Ph.D., Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion, Chair of Religion and
Philosophy Departments, Director of Center for Church and Society,
Roanoke College | Green Shoots in America: Religion and the Renewal of Culture | Unavailable | Not Listed | J. Brian Benestad, Ph.D., Professor of Theology, University of Scranton | Catholicism and the Renewal of Culture: The Place and Meaning of Virtue | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 1995 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | | Unavailable | James V. Schall, S.J., Ph.D., Professor of Government, Georgetown University | On How Revelation Addresses Itself to Politics | Unavailable | Not Listed | Norman B. Ture, Ph.D., President of Institute for Research on Economics of Taxation (IRET) | Taxes and the Good Society | Unavailable | Not Listed | Patrick F. Fagan, William Fitzgerald Senior Fellow for Family and Cultural Studies, The Heritage Foundation | Welfare Reform | Unavailable | Not Listed | Max L. Stackhouse, Ph.D., Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics, Princeton University | Theology and the Economic Life of Society in a Global Era: On Mars, Eros, the Muses, Mammon, and Christ | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 1994 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Nicholas Eberstadt, Visiting Fellow at Center for Population Studies, Harvard University | The Poor and the Marginalized: Current and Proposed Domestic Policies | Unavailable | Not Listed | James P. Hannigan, Ph.D., Professor of Moral Theology and Chair of Department of Theology, Duquesne University | The Place of Government in Civil Society and the Implications for the Public Witness of the Church | Unavailable | Not Listed | Ronald Nash, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary | The Restoration of Citizenship and Civic Culture | Unavailable |
Lecture Year 1993 (return to top) Lecture Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Topic | Download Audio | Not Listed | Don E. Eberly, President, The Commonwealth Foundation | Emerging Issues and Political Trends and their Moral Consequences | Unavailable | Not Listed | Bruce Bickel, Ph.D., Vice President and Manager, Charitable/Institutional Trust Department, PNC Bank | Christian Ethics in the Marketplace | Unavailable | Not Listed | Kurt Rethwisch, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Duquesne University | Good Intentions are Not Good Enough: Reacting to Economic Issues | Unavailable | Not Listed | Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President, The Acton Institute | The Entrepreneurial Vocation CSP | Unavailable |
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