The American Experience

Drawing upon the wisdom embodied in the liberties of Englishmen, republican government, and reformed Christian communities, the American Founders debated the means necessary to limit government for posterity. ISI cultivates an appreciation of limited government, the U.S. Constitution, federalism, and the importance of individual liberty.

	Name	Possible Lectures
	William Allen Emeritus Dean and Professor, Michigan State University Havre De Grace, Maryland	The American Founding George Washington's Legacy An American Future
	Virginia Arbery Adjunct, Professor of Politics, Assumption College Dallas, Texas	George Washington and the American Founding Liberal Education and its Enemies The Family and the Political Order
	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
	James Ceaser Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Professor of Politics, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia	American Exceptionalism The 2012 Elections
	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
	Daniel Dreisbach Professor, American University Washington, District of Columbia	How Thomas Jefferson's 'Wall of Separation' Redefined Church-State Law and Policy Religion's Contributions to the American Political and Legal Traditions The Great Themes of Religious Liberty in the American Experiment
	Amy Kass Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Washington, District of Columbia	Sympathy, Love, and Marriage: Effective Reform in 'Middlemarch' The Homecoming of Penelope Autobiography and American Identity
	Bill Kauffman Writer Elba, New York	Look Homeward: Why Your Place Matters The Drunk Who Wouldn't Shut Up: Luther Martin vs. the Constitution
	Paul Kengor Professor of Political Science, Grove City College Grove City, Pennsylvania	What Is a Reagan Conservative? Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century The Crusader: Ronald Reagan & the Fall of Communism
	Peter Lawler Dana Professor of Government, Berry College Rome, Georgia	Tocqueville and Individualism Indefinite Longevity and the Birth Dearth Walker Percy
	Wilfred McClay SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	The Persistence of Guilt in the Modern World Why Place Matters Tocqueville's Dilemma....and Ours
	Jeffry Morrison Associate Professor of Government, Regent University Virginia Beach, Virginia	Education and the American Enlightenment George Washington's Constitutionalism Religion and Early American Political Culture
	William Murchison Syndicated Columnist Dallas, Texas	There's More to Life Than Politics The Secularist Delusion What's Wrong with the Media?
	Charles Murray WH Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Washington, District of Columbia	Coming Apart: The Rise of Cultural Inequality Why the BA Is the Work of the Devil and What to Do About It
	George H. Nash Senior Fellow, Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal South Hadley, Massachusetts	Reconsidering FDR, World War II, and the Cold War: The Perspective of Herbert Hoover Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism Ronald Reagan's Vision of America
	Star Parker Founder and President, Center for Urban Renewal Education Washington, District of Columbia	How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It
	Barry Alan Shain Professor of Political Science, Colgate University Hamilton, New York	The Declaration of Independence in Context
	Christina Hoff Sommers Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Washington, District of Columbia	The Case for Conservative Feminism The War Against Boys: Is It Over?
	Tim Stanley Associate Fellow, Oxford University	A Conservative History of America: a Guide to Stripping the Liberal Fat Out of Historical Studies The Myth of the Separation of Church and State: How It Came About and How to Correct It Paleocons, Neocons, Confederates and Libertarians: the Breakup of the Conservative Family from 1945 to the Present Day
	Lee Trepanier Assistant Professor, Political Science Dept, Saginaw Valley State University University Center, Michigan	Mormonism and America Eric Voegelin and Christianity Russian Literature
	Bradley Watson Philip M. McKenna Chair, Dept. of Politics; Co-Director, Center for Political & Economic Thought, St. Vincent College Latrobe, Pennsylvania	Progressivism and the U.S. Constitution Civic Education and the University Courts and the Culture Wars
	Thomas West Paul Ermine Potter and Dawn Tibbetts Potter Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College Hillsdale, Michigan	The Economic Theory of the Founding The Founders' Conception of Virtue The Ground of Locke's Law of Nature: A Revisionist Account
	Bradford Wilcox Director, National Marriage Project	When Marriage Disappears: Why Marriage is Disappearing Among Americans Without College Degrees, and Why It Matters Wandering to the Altar: Successful Strategies for Contemporary Courtship The Kids Aren't All Right: How Family Breakdown Hurts Contemporary Children