Spring 2012
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FEBRUARY
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
George Washington and U. S. Foreign Policy
William B. Allen, Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Emeritus Dean, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Author of Rethinking Uncle Tom: The Political Thought of Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Washington: America's First Progressive, and Editor of George Washington: A Collection
James Madison Program Annual Black History Month Event
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture in Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Government Against Itself: Public Employee Unions and American Democracy
Daniel DiSalvo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, The City College of New York; Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Author of Government Unions and the Bankrupting of America (2011) and Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, 1868-2010 (forthcoming, 2012)
Stuart Lecture Series on Institutional Corruption in
America
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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MARCH
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Where Did All the Ethics Go? An Examination of the Recent Financial Boom and Bust
Gretchen C. Morgenson, Assistant Business and Financial Editor;
Columnist, The New York Times
Author, with Joshua Rosner, of Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon (Times Books, 2011), a New York Times bestseller about the origins of the 2008 financial crisis
Book Sale and Signing after Lecture
Stuart Lecture Series on Institutional Corruption in America
4:30 p.m., Friend Center 101
Flyer Flash Mp3
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Free Market Fairness
John Tomasi, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Political Theory Project, Brown University
Author of Free Market Fairness (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory (Princeton University Press, 2001)
Book Sale and Signing after Lecture
An America's Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
Flyer Flash Mp3
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Progress and Pleasure: Clubbing in the American Enlightenment
Darren M. Staloff, Professor of History, City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Director, Hertog Scholars Program, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY
Author of Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding (2007), and The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Alpheus T. Mason Lectures in Constitutional Law and
Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Fifth Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference on the American Polity
Hosted by Georgetown University’s Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, and cosponsored by the James Madison Program at Princeton University, the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, and the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religious and American Public Life, The University of Notre Dame
See Schedule for Session Times, Georgetown University
Program
Saturday–Sunday, March 17-18, 2012
Slavery, Race, and Gender in Islamic Societies: A Comparative Perspective
Organized by the Department of Religion, and cosponsored by the James Madison Program
See Symposium Program,
211 Dickinson Hall
Program 
More Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~slavery/
APRIL
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
CANCELLED Proposition 8 and the Distractions of Social Science
Daniel N. Robinson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Georgetown University; Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
Author of How Is Nature Possible?: Kant's Project in the First Critique (Continuum, 2012)
Cosponsored by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
A Panel Discussion of Stephanos Bibas's The Machinery of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Stephanos Bibas, Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
Discussants: John J. DiIulio, Jr., Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society; Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Anne Piehl, Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, and John McDonald, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
Organized by the Fox Leadership Program, University of Pennsylvania, and cosponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The New Regulatory State
Christopher DeMuth, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute; former President, American Enterprise Institute
An America's Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
Flyer Flash Mp3
Friday–Saturday, April 13–14, 2012
Governing Science: Technological Progress, Ethical Norms, and Democracy
A public conference
Cosponsored by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund, the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, and the University Center for Human Values
See Schedule for Session Times, Lewis Library 120
Program
Monday, April 16, 2012
Keeping Faith: A Panel Discussion with Princeton Faculty
Paul W. Cuff, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering; Eric S. Gregory, Professor of Religion; Amaney A. Jamal, Associate Professor of Politics; Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History and International Affairs, Director, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society; Martha Himmelfarb, William H. Danforth Professor of Religion; Shivaji L. Sondhi, Professor of Physics. Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
7:30 p.m., McCosh 10
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Making the Moral Case for Free Enterprise
Arthur Brooks, President, American Enterprise Institute
Author of Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America – and How We Can Get More of It (Basic Books, 2008), and The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise (Forthcoming, May 2012)
An America's Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
Flyer Flash Mp3
MAY
Thursday, May 3, 2012
The Constitution and the Future of Marriage
Stephen J. Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics
and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Principal co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (Brookings, 2005); and co-author and co-editor of American Constitutional Interpretation, with W. F. Murphy, J. E. Fleming, and S. A. Barber (Foundation Press, fourth edition 2008)
Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American
Constitutionalism
Cosponsored by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund and the Program in Law and Public Affairs
4:30 p.m., Friend Center 101
Flyer Flash Mp3
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People, Particularly Intellectuals, Are Divided by Politics
Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia, and Visiting Professor of Business Ethics, NYU-Stern School of Business
Author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Basic Books, 2006); and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon, 2012)
Commentators:
Christopher Achen, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Russell Nieli, Lecturer in Politics, Princeton University
Book Sale and Signing after Lecture
An America's Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
Flyer Flash Mp3
Monday-Tuesday, May 21-22, 2012
American Constitutionalism and the Legacy of Progressivism
Sixth Annual Conference
Cosponsored by the Association for the Study of Free
Institutions, University of Nebraska at Omaha
See Schedule for Session Times, Lewis Library 120
Program