Events Archive
Spring 2013
Os Guinness: "Can Freedom Last Forever?" - January 22, 2013
Fall 2012
A Final Gladness
- December 7, 2012
Tocqueville's Moment..and Ours
- November 15, 2012
Democracy in America 180 Years After Tocqueville
- October 25, 2012
Our Divided Political Heart and the Election of 2012
- October 22, 2012
American Grace Revisited with David Campbell and Clyde Wilcox
- October 3, 2012
Bad Religion with Ross Douthat and Matthew Carnes, SJ
- September 27, 2012
Spring 2012
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- June 2, 2012
In Search of the City on a Hill: a lecture by Richard Gamble
- March 21, 2012
Fifth Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference on the American Polity
- March 17, 2012
Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America
- February 29, 2012
The West and Islam: The Theology behind the History
- February 8, 2012
John Paul II and the Catholic Human Rights Revolution
- February 2, 2012
Annual Cardinal O'Connor Conference on Life
- January 22, 2012
Fall 2011
Merry Christmas from the Tocqueville Forum!
- December 25, 2011
A Talk with Dana Priest, Pulitzer Prize Winner
- December 7, 2011
We are Updating our Database
- December 1, 2011
The Quest for Community in a Digital Age: Revisiting Robert Nisbet
- November 10, 2011
'A Yankee with a Foreign Accent' - Remembering Jan Karski
- October 20, 2011
A Red Tory in America: A Conversation with Phillip Blond
- October 6, 2011
The Era of Self Expansion: A Discussion with David Brooks
- September 26, 2011
Human Scale and the Human Good: Creating Healthy Communities in a Global Age
- September 24, 2011
Revisiting the Ratification Debate: Federalists vs. Anti-federalists, 2011
- September 19, 2011
Truth and Freedom: The Sixth Annual Carroll Lecture -- Francis Cardinal George, OMI
- September 12, 2011
Movies at the Forum
- July 14, 2011
Spring 2011
Energy and America's Future: An Alumni Reunion lecture
- June 4, 2011
Fourth Annual Schall Award: Truth and the Human Person
- April 28, 2011
Human Rights between the Scylla of Relativism and the Charybdis of Fundamentalism
- April 18, 2011
The Last Refuge of Scoundrels?: An Ethical Examination of Patriotism
- April 12, 2011
Founders Day Celebration
- March 25, 2011
Grand Strategy: An American Foreign Policy Problem
- March 15, 2011
God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson
- February 24, 2011
Pre-Screening of Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton film
- February 7, 2011
God, Notre Dame, Country: Rethinking the Mission of Catholic Higher Education in the United States
- February 3, 2011
Fall 2010
Church and State -- Ever Separate?
- December 8, 2010
Fifth Annual Carroll Lecture -- Charles Carroll: A Classical-Christian Nexus in the American Founding
- November 18, 2010
How the Federal Government is Trying to Destroy Your Liberal Arts Education
- November 15, 2010
Love and Fidelity Network event
- October 26, 2010
Economics at the Crossroads: A Forum Roundtable
- October 20, 2010
The Digital Age: Great Promise and Great Peril
- September 23, 2010
Constitutional Morality? A Constitution Day Roundtable
- September 17, 2010
Understanding the Core Curriculum
- September 8, 2010
Spring 2010
Alumni Reunion Weekend Roundtable: An Assessment of the Obama Presidency
- June 5, 2010
3rd Annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. Award Lecture: Constitutional Morality and the Crisis of Our Time
- April 29, 2010
Are the Suburbs a Mistake? Reflections on Urbanism and Natural Law
- April 20, 2010
Presidents, Parties and the Constitution of the People: What the Jeffersonian Opposition of the 1790s Can Teach Us About Democratic Leadership in a Constitutional Regime
- April 7, 2010
Student Conference on the American Polity
- March 27, 2010
Founders Day Celebration
- March 25, 2010
"Red Toryism" Roundtable: A Response to Phillip Blond
- March 19, 2010
Red Toryism and the Associative State
- March 18, 2010
Reimagining the 50's: Psychology, Sex, and Secularization in the Age of Eisenhower
- February 23, 2010
4th Annual Carroll Lecture: Catholicism: Last Hope for a Dying Culture
- February 4, 2010
Honorable Ambition -- and Its Critics
- January 20, 2010
Fall 2009
Ecological Decline and Wendell Berry's Vision of Hope
- November 18, 2009
The Moral Dimensions of the Economic Crisis
- November 12, 2009
America and the World
- November 9, 2009
Freedom, the Human Vocation, and the Catholic University
- September 24, 2009
Constitution Day Lecture: Is the Constitution Relevant Today?
- September 17, 2009
What is College For?
- September 9, 2009
Spring 2009
Solidarity and the Future of Democratization
- May 19, 2009
American Political Thought: Ideas and Institutions
- April 25, 2009
Jack Miller Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Lecture: That Unequalled Spirit of Enterprise: The Link Between Political Economy and Strategy in the Federalist
- April 16, 2009
International Religious Freedom – How Important is it to America?
- April 15, 2009
The End of American Exceptionalism: 1941-2008 as the Short American Century
- April 2, 2009
Economic Freedom and Moral Virtue: Does the Free Market Produce Captive Souls?
- April 1, 2009
2nd Annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. Award Lecture: Defending Human Dignity: What It Is and Why It Matters
- March 23, 2009
Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered
- March 3, 2009
2nd Annual Lincoln Day Lecture: Of Ballots and Bullets: Lincoln, the Union and the Fate of Democracy in the World
- February 12, 2009
Kennedy and Lincoln: A Tale of Two Tragedies
- February 3, 2009
Natural Rights and the American Constitutional Experience
- January 30, 2009
What, If Anything, Did We Learn From Iraq?
- January 27, 2009
Tocqueville and the American Tradition Series (Lecture 7) Alexis de Tocqueville and John Paul II on the Moral Trajectory of Modern Democracy
- January 14, 2009
Fall 2008
3rd Annual Carroll Lecture: Education for Ordered Liberty: The Founders' Conception of Civic Life
- December 3, 2008
The 2008 Presidential Election and the Future of the American Republic
- November 20, 2008
Tocqueville and the American Tradition Series (Lecture 6) Philosophy and the Common Good: What Tocqueville Might Have Taught Heidegger and Strauss
- November 6, 2008
Can Islam Tame Islamist Radicalism?: Muslim Sources in the West
- October 28, 2008
Bioethics, Technology and the Human Person: Prospects for the Future of American Democracy
- October 11, 2008
Public Theology in America
- September 30, 2008
How to Make the Most of Georgetown's Core Curriculum
- September 9, 2008
Spring 2008
2nd Annual Carroll Lecture: Natural Law, God, and Human Rights
- April 24, 2008
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
- April 14, 2008
1st Annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. Award Lecture: There Was a Man! On Learning to be Free
- April 10, 2008
The American Polity
- April 5, 2008
Adam Smith and the Culture of Enterprise
- April 3, 2008
Tocqueville and the American Tradition Series (Lecture 5) Tocqueville and the Prophecy of Democratic Gentleness
- March 27, 2008
Living With the Dead: Why Cities Need Cemeteries and Nations Need Memorials
- March 17, 2008
How Could Anyone Defend Slavery?: Moral Crisis in Antebellum America
- March 13, 2008
1st Annual Lincoln Day Lecture: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
- February 12, 2008
America: Republic or Empire?
- January 29, 2008
Tocqueville and the American Tradition Series (Lecture 4) Tocqueville on Greatness and Justice: Reflections on the Realistic Christian Correction of Classical Magnanimity
- January 24, 2008
Fall 2007
Tocqueville and the American Tradition Series (Lecture 3) Tocqueville's New Political Science: A Theory from Practice
- December 7, 2007
Revisiting 'The Regensburg Lecture' of Pope Benedict XVI
- November 26, 2007
Tocqueville and the American Tradition Series (Lecture 2) Questions About Tocqueville
- November 8, 2007
Natural Rights, Constitutionalism, and the Law
- October 12, 2007
Tocqueville and the American Tradition Series (Lecture 1) Modernity and its Prospects: Tocquevillian Thoughts
- September 20, 2007
Spring 2007
Conservatism as Conservation
- April 18, 2007
1st Annual Carroll Lecture: Republicanism and Orthodoxy: The Contribution of John Carroll
- March 22, 2007
Closing of the American Mind
- March 12, 2007
Fall 2006
John Stuart Mill’s Idea of a University, and Our Own
- November 16, 2006
Religion and Politics in America, Past Present and Future: On Michael Kazin’s A Godly Hero
- October 26, 2006
Constitutional Government and Civic Education in America
- October 20, 2006
"I presume that your fellow-citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their Revolution, and the establishment of their Government." (Letter of His Excellency, President George Washington, Founder of our Country, to his Excellence, Bishop John Carroll, Founder of our College, 1790)
