Short Video: Sophia Aguirre on the Family and Economic Growth
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Sophia Aguirre gives an account of the importance of the institution of the family for an economy's growth.
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Sophia Aguirre gives an account of the importance of the institution of the family for an economy's growth.
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Randall Strahan reflects on political parties as part of the American political process, and speaks to today's intense partisanship.
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Walter McDougall reflects on how early American leaders' understanding of America's unique role in the world shaped their foreign policy.
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This summer the Lehrman Center recorded 32 short videos of scholars talking about a host of different topics. Here's the first in what will be a series of short, pithy introductions to important subjects.
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An exclusive with the newly beatified Cardinal Newman.
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Lehrman Fellow Steven McGuire interviews J. Budziszewksi, Professor, Departments of Government and Philosophy about the natural law.
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Phil Hamilton interviewed Walter A. McDougall last month about American history, his work as a teacher and writer, and about the profession of history in general. Dr. McDougall is Professor of History and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of seven books, including most recently Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 (2008). In 1986, Dr. McDougall won the Pulitzer Prize for The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. He was a Teaching Fellow at the Lehrman American Studies Center’s 2009 Summer Institute at Princeton University.
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Andrew Yuengert is an economist. But he's also steeped in the philosophy of his discipline and is well known as one of the few who think deeply into its foundations and its proper relation with ethics . A Professor of Economics at Pepperdine with a PhD from Yale (and a past-President of the Association of Christian Economists), he has written The Boundaries of Technique: Ordering Positive and Normative Concerns in Economic Research, from Lexington Books, and Inhabiting the Land: the Case for the Right to Migrate, published by the Acton Institute for Religion and Liberty. He is currently researching a book on relationship between economic theories of choice and the Aristotelian concept of practical wisdom, and graciously agreed to answer a few questions about the love of his (intellectual) life.
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This winter, George H. Nash, an authority on the life of President Herbert Hoover and author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 and Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism, agreed to allow me to interview him. Dr. Nash is an independent scholar, historian, and lecturer, with specialties in twentieth century American political and intellectual history. He is a senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in Mecosta, Michigan, and guest lecturer at the Lehrman American Studies Center's summer institute at Princeton University.
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