Western Civilization

The American Founders understood the frailty of human nature, a perspective necessary for securing ordered liberty and domestic tranquility. ISI has a commitment to sharing with students and faculty the inherited tradition of Western Civilization that informed the Founders.

	Name	Possible Lectures
	Richard Allen Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Washington, District of Columbia	National Security Stewardship of Western Civilization
	Glenn Arbery d'Alzon Professor of Liberal Education, Assumption College Worcester, Massachusetts	Why Literature Matters What Makes a Classic? Poetry and the Education of Feeling
	Hadley Arkes Ney Professor of Jurisprudence, Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts	A Natural Law Manifesto The Natural Law Challenge Natural Rights and the Right to Choose
	Philip Bess Professor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana	Human Habitat and Metaphysical Realism Are the Suburbs a Mistake?' Reflections on Urbanism and Natural Law Being Smart About Cities and Baseball Parks
	Zachary Calo Associate Professor of Law, Valparaiso University School of Law Valparaiso, Indiana	Law, Religion, and the Secular: Comparative and International Perspectives Religion, Pluralism, and Human Rights Religion and Moral Economy
	Allan Carlson Visiting Professor of History, Hillsdale College; President, Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society Rockford, Illinois	Who Owns America? Agrarian Responses to Economic Troubles of Yesterday...and Today The Natural Family in an Unnatural Age Servile World: How the 'Business Government'--The 'Loathsome Thing Called Social Service'-- and Other Distributist Nightmares All Came True
	David D. Corey Associate Professor of Political Philosophy, Baylor University Waco, Texas	What is a Liberal Education and Why Does it Matter? The Just War Tradition Socrates and the Sophists
	Patrick J. Deneen David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Constitutional Studies, University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana	Tocqueville and the American Founding Vision Education in the Mass Age: Why Scale Matters Civil Religion and American Democracy
	Steve Ealy Senior Fellow, Liberty Fund Indianapolis, Indiana	The Political Leadership of Willie Stark: a Discussion of Robert Penn Warren's Novel All the King's Men Publius on 'Liquidation' and the Meaning of the Constitution Jack-the-Bear's Grandfather and the American Dream: a Discussion of Ralph Ellison's Novel Invisible Man
	Hank Edmondson Professor, Georgia College Augusta, Georgia	'Wingless Chickens': Flannery O'Connor on the Threat of Nihilism What Would Publius Do? Leadership Principles From the Federalist Papers John Dewey and the Collapse of American Education
	Anthony Esolen Professor of English, Providence College Providence, Rhode Island	The Dislocation of Knowledge and Love Dante's Divine Comedy: Faces in Paradise Whatever Happened to a Boy's Life?
	John Evans Professor Emeritus of English, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona	Beyond Pragmatism: Friendship as a Transnational Resource The Paradox of Suffering in the Writings of Alexander Sozhenitsyn and Viktor Frankl Charter Schools and Renewal of Western Culture
	James Gaston Assistant Prof. of History, and Director of the Humanities and Catholic Culture Program, Franciscan University of Steubenville	The Work and Legacy of Christopher Dawson. The Importance of Geography to the Liberal Arts. The Nature and Importance of a Liberal Arts Education.
	Robert George McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey	Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity Immigration and American Exceptionalism Science, Philosophy, and Religion in the Embryo Debate
	David Goldman President, Macrostrategy LLC New York, New York	The Arab Winter: Civilizational Collapse in the Muslim World Faith and Fertility: How the Decline of Faith is Killing the Industrial World
	Mark Henrie Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Intercollegiate Studies Institute Wilmington, Delaware	Rethinking American Conservatism Understanding the Core Curriculum: How You Are Being Short-Changed in Your College Education The Tradition of Catholic Social Thought
	Joshua Hochschild Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Mount St. Mary's University Emmitsburg, Maryland	John Henry Newman and Liberal Education The Politics of Local Community Art and the Liberal Arts
	Carson Holloway Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska	John Paul II and the Challenge of Liberal Modernity Hamilton and Jefferson: Clashing Constitutional Visions All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics
	Thomas "Tal" Howard Stephen Phillips Chair of History and Director of Honors Program, Gordon College Georgetown, Massachusetts	Virtue and Liberal Education Imago Dei: Human Dignity in Christian Perspective Jacques Maritain and America
	James Kalb Attorney and Independent Scholar Brooklyn, New York	God in the Liberal State Liberalism's Self-Demolition After Liberalism: Toward Reconstruction
	Roger Kimball Editor and Publisher, The New Criterion and Encounter Books New York, New York	Thoughts on the Present Discontents Retaking the University The Perils of Multiculturalism
	Robert Koons Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas Austin, Texas	The Logic of Federalism: Why Small is Better A Conservative Primer: Axioms of Conservative Philosophy The Metaphysics of Middle Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a World and Changed Ours Humanists vs. Humanitarians: Irving Babbitt, C. S. Lewis and the Recovery of Learning
	E. Christian Kopff Associate Director, Honors Program, University of Colorado, Boulder Louisville, Colorado	Why America Needs the Classical Tradition The Traditionalism of the American Founding Grammar: The Basis of Thinking, Persuading and Creating
	Joseph Koterski, S.J. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University Bronx, New York	Dante's Divine Comedy and the Western Canon Natural Law Theory: Perennial Questions Thomas More on Conscience and Statecraft
	Paul Marshall Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute Washington, District of Columbia	Free Speech and Insults to Islam The Contemporary Worldwide Persecution of Christians Blind Spot: When Journalists Don?t Get Religion
	Jennifer Roback Morse President, Ruth Institute San Marcos, California	The Definition of Marriage: The Importance of Marriage Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village Smart Sex: Finding Lifelong Love in a Hook-up World
	James Panero Managing Editor, The New Criterion New York, New York	Secrets of The Dartmouth Review The Lessons of William F. Buckley Jr The Future of Conservative Journalism
	R. R. Reno Editor, First Things New York, New York	Piety: An Intellectual Virtue Resisting the Empire of Desire Conservative Cosmopolitanism
	Robert Royal President, Faith & Reason Institute Washington, District of Columbia	The God that Did Not Fail: How Religion Sustains the West The Use and Abuse of Religion in Environmental Debates Columbus and the Discovery of the World
	Fr. Paul Scalia Pastor; Bishop's Delegate for Priests McLean, Virginia	Faith and Culture Liturgy and Worship Human Sexuality
	David Schindler Associate Professor, Villanova University Villanova, Pennsylvania	Freedom: Ancient and Modern
	Christopher Shannon Associate Professor of History, Christendom College Front Royal, Virginia	Christopher Dawson and Christian Diversity Catholicism and the American Founding What G.K. Chesterton Saw in America
	Lee J. Strang Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law Sylvania, Ohio	Originalism v. The Living Constitution Originalism 101: An Introduction to Originalism The Declaration of Independence: A Unique Role in Constitutional Interpretation?
	Bruce S. Thornton Professor of Classics and Humanities, California State University, Fresno; Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Fresno, California	Appeasement and Obama's Foreign Policy The Greek Roots of the American Order The Collapse of 'EU'-topia
	James Tonkowich Senior Vice President, Oxford House Research, and Scholar, Institute on Religion & Democracy Washington, District of Columbia	Image is Everything: Bioethics and the Image of God Religion and the Federal State: Making Sense of Religious Freedom and the Place of Faith in the Public Square Picking Up the Pieces: the Building Blocks of a Deeply-Rooted Christian Worldview
	David Whalen Professor of English, Hillsdale College Hillsdale, Michigan	'Then Sing Him Home': Shakespeare the Contemplative Liberal Education in Newman's Idea of a University Lost in the Educated Cosmos: A Guide for the Educated Perplexed
	James Matthew Wilson Assistant Professor of Literature, Villanova University Villanova, Pennsylvania	The Drama of Cultural Conservatism What Is the Western Tradition? Retelling the Story of Reason
	Gregory Wolfe Writer in Residence, Seattle Pacific University Seattle, Washington	Why I Am a Conscientious Objector in the Culture Wars What Good Is Modern Art? Tradition and Innovation in the Arts A Faith for All Seasons: The Legacy of Christian Humanism

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