Audio Archive

Event Recordings

FALL 2009

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM

"Ecological Decline and Wendell Berry's Vision of Hope" (Text of Speech Only)

Featuring Jason Peters, Professor of English at Augustana College

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
"America and the World"
November 9, 2009
Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain
Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom, Georgetown University

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
"Freedom, the Human Vocation, and the Catholic University"
September 24, 2009
Dr. Mark Shiffman, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, Villanova University


TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
"Is the Constitution Relevant Today?"
September 17, 2009
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III

SPRING 2009

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM CONFERENCE
Co-sponsored by the American Polish Forum
and the Political Theory Colloquium in the Department of Government
at Georgetown University
"Solidarity and the Future of Democratization"
May 19, 2009

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM CONFERENCE
Co-sponsored by the Jack Miller Center
"American Political Thought: Ideas and Institutions"
April 25, 2009
Panel on Alexis de Tocqueville
Jonathan Clark, James Ceaser, Patrick Deneen, Wilfred McClay

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
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
Brian Smith, Georgetown University

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM ROUNDTABLE
Co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs
"International Religious Freedom – How Important is it to America?"
April 15, 2009
Tom Farr, Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs
Respondents:
Allen Hertzke, Visiting Senior Fellow, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Andrew S. Natsios, Distinguished Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Abkar Ahmed, Professor, Schoole of International Studies, American University

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
Co-sponsored by the Mortara Center and the Center for Peace and Security Studies
"The End of American Exceptionalism: 1941-2008 as the Short American Century"
April 2, 2009
Andrew Bacevich, Boston University

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM DEBATE
Co-sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
"Economic Freedom and Moral Virtue:
Does the Free Market Produce Captive Souls?"

April 1, 2009
Doug Bandow, Cato Institute vs.
David Schindler, John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family
Moderator: Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University

2nd ANNUAL TOCQUEVILLE FORUM REV. JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J. AWARD FOR TEACHING AND  HUMANE LETTERS
Recipient: Dr. Leon Kass, University of Chicago
Lecture: "Defending Human Dignity: What It Is and Why It Matters"
March 23, 2009

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
"Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered"
March 3, 2009
Joseph Pearce, Ave Maria University

A LINCOLN DAY LECTURE
Bicentennial Birthday Celebration of Abraham Lincoln
"Of Ballots and Bullets: Lincoln, the Union and the Fate of Democracy in the World"
February 12, 2009
Mr. Michael Lind, New America Foundation

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
"Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Killed American Liberalism"
February 3, 2009
James Piereson, William E. Simon Foundation
Respondents:
Joseph McCartin, Georgetown University
Steven Hayward, American Enterprise Institute

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM CONFERENCE
"Natural Rights and the American Constitutional Experience"
January 30, 2009
Panel One:
Brian Tierney, Emeritus, Cornell University
Robert Kraynak, Colgate University
Steven Brust, Georgetown University
Panel Two:
Robert George, Princeton University
Randy E. Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center
Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University
Lunch Keynote speaker:
Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute
Panel Three:
Christopher Wolfe, McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies
Charles Lugosi, Ave Maria School of Law
Phillip Muñoz, Tufts University

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
"What, If Anything, Did We Learn From Iraq?"
January 27, 2009
John Agresto, Princeton University

TOCQUEVILLE AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION SERIES (2007-2009), Lecture 7
January 14, 2009
"Alexis de Tocqueville and John Paul II on the Moral Trajectory of Modern Democracy"
Carson Holloway, University of Nebraska at Omaha
FALL 2008

3rd ANNUAL CARROLL LECTURE
(December 3, 2008)
"Education for Ordered Liberty: The Founders' Conception of Civic Life"
Daniel N. Robinson, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University;
Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus, Georgetown University

2008 Post-Election Roundtable:
Part One
Part Two
(November 20, 2008)

Tocqueville and American Tradition Lecture Series
(November 6, 2008)
"Philosophy and the Common Good: What Tocqueville Might Have Taught Heidegger and Strauss"
Part One
Part Two
Ralph Hancock, Professor, Brigham Young University

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
Can Islam Tame Radical Islamism? Muslim Sources in the West
(October, 28 2008)
Mr. Nawaz Maajid, Quilliam Foundation

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM ROUNDTABLE
Bioethics, Technology and the Human Person: Prospects for the Future of American Democracy
(October 11, 2008)
Peter Lawler, Professor of Government, Berry College
Gilbert Meilaender, Chair of Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University
William Saletan, National Correspondent, Slate.com

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM COLLOQUIUM
Public Theology
(September 30, 2008)
Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University Divinity School Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor in Chief of First Things
Daryl Hart, Residence in Scholar, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

SPRING 2008

Second Annual Carroll Lecture
(April, 25 2008)
"Natural Law, God, and Human Rights"
Robert George, McCormack Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program for American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University

Inaugural REV. JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J. AWARD FOR TEACHING AND HUMANE LETTERS
(April 10, 2008)
"There Was a Man! On Learning to be Free"
Ralph McInerny, Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame

Tocqueville and the American Tradition Lecture Series
"Tocqueville and the Prophecy of Democratic Gentleness"
(March 27, 2008)
Chantal Delsol, Professor of Philosophy, Universite de Marne-la-Valle

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM ROUNDTABLE
"Living With the Dead: Why Cities Need Cemeteries and Nations Need Memorials"
(March 17, 2008)
Part One
Part Two
Joseph Bottom, Editor, First Things
Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
Roger Kimball, Editor of The New Criterion
Denis McNamara, Assistant Director of the Liturgical Institute

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM LECTURE
"How Could Anyone Defend Slavery? Moral Crisis in Antebellum America"
(March 13, 2008)
Andrew Delbanco, Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies, Columbia University

"America: Republic or Empire? A Debate"
(January 29, 2008)
Michael P. Federici, Professor of Political Science, Mercyhurst College
vs.
James R. Stoner, Jr., Professor of Political Science, L.S.U.

FALL 2007

Tocqueville and the American Tradition Lecture Series
"Tocqueville's New Political Science--A Theory from Practice" (December 7, 2007)
Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, Harvard University

TOCQUEVILLE FORUM ROUNDTABLE
"Revisiting 'The Regensburg Lecture' of Pope Benedict XVI" (November 26, 2007)
Part One
Part Two

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.

Tocqueville and the American Tradition Lecture Series
"Modernity and its Prospects: Tocquevillian Thoughts"
(September 20, 2007)
Professor Joshua Mitchell, Department of Government, Georgetown University

FALL 2006

"Constitutional Government and Civic Education in America" (October 19, 2006)
The Honorable Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, The United States Supreme Court
Part One
Part Two
Part Three