Tocqueville Forum

September 20, 2007, 5:00 p.m.

Professor Joshua Mitchell, Department of Government, Georgetown University

Location: Marriot Conference Center, Leavey Center

(First lecture in the 2007-2008 series "Tocqueville and the American Tradition," made possible by the generous support of the Earhart Foundation)

 

 

Bryan Garsten, Political Science, Yale University

Location: Philodemic Room, Healy Hall

 

David Whalen, Professor of English, Hillsdale College

Location: Intercultural Center (ICC), Room 662 

Free copies of Love in the Ruins will be made available to those in attendance.

(Part of the "Great Encounters: Books that Change Lives" discussion series for Tocqueville Forum Student Fellows)

 

John Lukacs, historian and author of A New Republic: A History Of The United States In The Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 2004) and Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred (Yale University Press, 2005).

Location: Leavey Center, Room 338 (Club Room)

(Second lecture in the 2007-2008 series "Tocqueville and the American Tradition," made possible by the generous support of the Earhart Foundation)

 

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Leavey Chair, Georgetown University
Daniel J. Mahoney, Professor of Political Science, Assumption College
Marc Guerra, Department of Theology, Ave Maria University

Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., Department of Government, Georgetown University and author of The Regensburg Lecture.

Location: Copley Formal Lounge

 

Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, Harvard University

Location: Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium

(Third lecture in the 2007-2008 series "Tocqueville and the American Tradition," made possible by the generous support of the Earhart Foundation)

 

Peter Augustine Lawler, Dana Professor of Political Science, Berry College, and member of the President's Council on Bioethics

Location: Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N Street, N.W.

(Forth lecture in the 2007-2008 series "Tocqueville and the American Tradition," made possible by the generous support of the Earhart Foundation)

 

"America: Republic or Empire?" A Cicero's Podium Debate

James R. Stoner, Jr., Louisiana State University versus Michael P. Federici, Mercyhurst College

Location: Marriott Conference Center, Leavey Center

 

"Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief"
February 12, 2008, 5:00 p.m.

James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History, Princeton University and author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1989 Pulitzer Prize winner in history), For Cause and Comrades (winner of the Lincoln Prize), and the New York Times bestselling Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam.

Location: Copley Formal Lounge

 

Tyler Cowen, General Director of The Mercatus Center, Director of the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy, and holder of the Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics, George Mason University.
Location: Copley Formal Lounge

"How Could Anyone Defend Slavery?: Moral Crisis in Antebellum America"
March 13, 2008, 5:00 p.m.
Andrew Delbanco, Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies, Columbia University and Time Magazine's "America's Best Social Critic" in 2001

Location: Wagner Alumni House Seminar Room, 3604 O Street, NW

 

Joseph Bottum, Editor of First Things and author of "Death & Politics"

Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (respondent)

Roger Kimball, Editor of The New Criterion (respondent)

Denis McNamara, Ph.D., Assistant Director of the Liturgical Institute (respondent)

Location: Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium

 

"Tocqueville and the Prophecy of Democratic Gentleness"
March 27, 2008, 5:00 p.m.

Chantal Delsol, Professor of Philosophy, Université de Marne-la-Vallée and member of L'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques

Location: Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N Street, N.W.

(Fifth lecture in the 2007-2008 series "Tocqueville and the American Tradition," made possible by the generous support of the Earhart Foundation)

 

Michael Brown '08 on "Tocqueville's Democracy in America: Reflections on the Future of the European Union"
Tweedy Flanigan '09 on John Rawls and Allan Bloom, "Justice as Fairness-What the Metaphysics?"
Jeffrey Long '11 on "Edmund Burke and the Bedrock of American Conservatism"
Eric Wind '09 on "Turner's Thesis and America's Cultural Identity in a Global Age"
T. Wyatt Yankus '09 (Princeton) on "Separate and Dissimilar Bodies: The Senate, the House of Representatives, and the 17th Amendment"

Moderated by Patrick J. Deneen, Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Tocqueville Forum

Location: Philodemic Room, Healy Hall
(Co-sponsored with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University)

 

Ralph McInerny, Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame

Location: Georgetown Marriott Conference Center

 

Rick Perlstein, author of Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Hill and Wang, 2001).

Steven F. Hayward, F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (respondent)

Location: Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N Street, N.W.

 

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Leavey Chair, Georgetown University

Darryl Hart, Scholar in Residence, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University Divinity School

Father Richard John Neuhaus, Editor in Chief of First Things

 

Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University

Location: Copley Formal Lounge