The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy
Cultivating knowledge of America and the West
The Tocqueville Forum is an initiative housed in the Department of Government at Georgetown University, which seeks to advance the study of America's founding principles and their roots in the Western philosophical and religious traditions.
Events
John Paul II and the Catholic Human Rights Revolution
As part of Jesuit Heritage Week 2012, the Tocqueville Forum will cosponsor a talk by George Weigel, 'John Paul II and the Catholic Human Rights Revolution.'
The event will take place at 5:30pm.
The West and Islam: The Theology behind the History
The Tocqueville Forum, together with cosponsor The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, will host author Robert R. Reilly for a lecture on his recent book The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis.
See directions section under 'Events' for directions to the Mortara Center.
The event will take place at 6pm. Q&A will follow.
Announcements
- Professor Deneen to leave Georgetown
- Now Accepting applications for the Jack Miller Center - Veritas Fund Post-Doctoral Fellowship for 2012-2013
- Jean Bethke Elshtain Will Receive Fifth Annual Schall Award
- New Associate Director Announced
- Now Accepting Student Fellow Applications for the 2011-2012 Academic Year
- Spring 2011 Newsletter Released
- New Program Coordinator Announced
- Senior Thesis Prize Awarded
- Justin R. Hawkins Announced as Winner of Third Annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. Student Essay Contest
- Third Annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. Student Essay Award
- Summer Course in American Political Theory
- Fall 2010 Newsletter Released
- Msgr. Robert Sokolowski Will Receive Fourth Annual Schall Award
- Spring 2011 Reading Group
- Accepting Applications for Jack Miller Center - Veritas Fund Post-Doctoral Fellowship
- Fall 2010 Reading Group
- Please visit our new Publications page, which features past volumes of the Utraque Unum and the Tocqueville Newsletter!
- Graduate Fellow for 2010-2011: Paula Olearnik
- Summer 2010 Newsletter Released
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
News
- Georgetown Dean Chester Gillis states the University's support of the continued work of the Tocqueville Forum
01/26/2012 - Board member Bill Mumma remarks on religious liberty as the new president of the Becket Fund
12/16/2011 - Tocqueville Forum event with David Brooks highlighted in GUTV news program
12/14/2011 - Student Fellow Stephen Wu quoted in AP article on Controversial Sociology Course
12/05/2011 - Former Student Fellow's Essay Published through the Love & Fidelity Network
12/02/2011 - Student Fellow Featured on Fox News
08/17/2011 - Tocqueville Forum called "most outstanding resource" at GU
07/18/2011


