Higher Education & the Liberal Arts

The university is the uniquely Western institution which both transmits our cultural patrimony and cultivates habits of critical reflection in the constant quest for truth. In recent years, however, the great tradition of liberal learning has come under siege---from politicized faculty who abuse the classroom, from administrators advancing diversity agendas, from academic nihilists who mock "truth" as a form of oppression, and even from those who would reduce university education to mere preparation for a career. In the face of such challenges, ISI strives to defend and recover the truly higher purposes of higher education.

	Name	Possible Lectures
	John Agresto Academic Chair, American University of Iraq Santa Fe, New Mexico	Democracy, Liberty, and American Foreign Policy The Corruption of American Higher Education
	William Allen Emeritus Dean and Professor, Michigan State University Havre De Grace, Maryland	The American Founding George Washington's Legacy An American Future
	Michael Behe Professor of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania	Chance or Purpose? The Argument for Intelligent Design in Biology Answering Objections to the Argument for Intelligent Design in Biology Should Intelligent Design Be Taught as a Science?
	H. Lee Cheek Professor of Political Science and Religion, University of North Georgia Gainesville, Georgia	American Federalism and Public Administration Rethinking Liberty The Western Tradition
	Dinesh D'Souza Author and Speaker New York, New York	Why America Is Loved, Why America is Hated The Moral Case for Capitalism Has Science Refuted Religion?
	William Dembski Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute Riesel, Texas	Why Science Supports Belief in God Intelligent Design: Yesterday's Orthodoxy, Today's Heresy The Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design
	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
	Carl Ellis Assistant Professor of Practical Theology, Redeemer Seminary Dallas, Texas	The African-American Cultural Crisis Dynamics of Diversity
	Prof. Charles L. Glenn Professor, Boston University Boston, Massachusetts	How Other Countries Support Family Choice of Schools Challenges of a Post-secular Age: Muslim Students in Western Educational Systems The American System of State and Schools: How It Developed and Why It Should Change
	Gary Gregg Director, McConnell Center and Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership, University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky	Conservative Leadership and the Moral Imagination The Temptation of Washington: The End of the Revolution and the Birth of Constitutional Statesmanship Cato: The Play that Made America
	Vigen Guroian Professor of Religious Studies in Orthodox Christianity, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia	The Moral Imagination in the Age of Sentiments Why Should Businessmen Read Great Literature? Dorm Brothel: The New Debauchery and the Colleges That Let It Happen
	Ralph Hancock Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah	Faith and Reason in the Public Square Reason, Rationalism and Morality Has the Tocquevillean Moment Passed?
	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
	Thomas Hibbs Honors College Dean, Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture, Baylor University Waco, Texas	The University in Crisis (Again): Why Faith-Based Institutions are the Last, Best Hope for Liberal Education Democratic Nihilism: A Lecture on Film and Philosophy Recovering Virtue: Aquinas and Our Contemporaries
	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
	David Horowitz CEO, David Horowitz Freedom Center Sherman Oaks, California	The Islamic Jihad Against the West Why Israel is the Victim The One Party State of American Campuses
	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
	Daniel Lowenstein Director, UCLA Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions Los Angeles, California	Law and Mercy in "The Merchant of Venice"; Sex, Chastity, Marriage, Justice, Mercy, Corruption: Is "Measure for Measure" a Comedy? What's the Point of an Undergraduate Education? The Case for the Traditional Liberal Arts
	Heather Mac Donald Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research New York, New York	Policing and Racial Profiling The Costs of Affirmative Action and the Diversity Bureaucracy
	Glenn Moots Professor, Northwood University (Michigan) Midland, Michigan	America and Christendom John Locke's Appeal to Heaven Good Work: Recovering the Call of Vocation
	Gerald O'Driscoll Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Washington, District of Columbia	The Fed and Monetary Policy The Economic Crisis and Its Aftermath The European Debt Crisis
	Robert Paquette Executive Director, Alexander Hamilton Institute Clinton, New York	Slavery in the History of the Americas Liberal Arts and Higher Education History of the Old South
	Naomi Riley Affiliate Scholar, Institute for American Values New York, New York	The Case Against Tenure The Rise of Religious Colleges: How the Missionary Generation is Changing America The Rise of Interfaith Marriage in America
	John Tomasi Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Director of the Political Theory Project, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island	Free Market Fairness
	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
	Peter Wood President, National Association of Scholars Princeton, New Jersey	Is College Still Worth It? The Higher Education Bubble and Student Debt Critiquing the Campus Sustainability Movement Pre-Occupied: Higher Education, Anger and the Wall Street Protests
	Jonathan Yonan Dean of Templeton Honors College, Eastern University St Davids, Pennsylvania	Majoring in Servility: Liberal Arts and the Formation of Citizens The Liberal Arts: Orthodoxies and Heresies of Human Nature The Idea of the University in the Digital Age