de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
Stability, Conversion, and Obedience
This talk features Christopher Fisher (Portsmouth Abbey) on “A True ’Benedict Option’: The 10th Century English Benedictine Reform and the Poetic Kingdom of Edgar the...
watch video
From the Ideological Lie to Freedom as Self Restriction
This talk features Professor Daniel J. Mahoney (Assumption College). Session Chair: Gladden J. Pappin (University of Dallas, American Affairs). Presented at the Center for Ethics...
watch video
Beyond the Soul and Barbed Wire: The Continuing Legacy of Solzhenitsyn
With Ralph Wood (Baylor University) on “The Uniquely Orthodox Character of Solzhenitsyn’s Literary Imagination,” David Deavel (St. Thomas University) on “Life, Liberty,...
watch video
Authority, Rights, and Responsibilities
This session features Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard Law School) on “Can the Modern Human Rights Project Be Saved?” and Patrizia Giunti (University of Florence) on “The...
watch video
Belief in the Modern World
This session features Wilfred McClay (University of Oklahoma) on “Guilt in the Immanent Frame,” and John Waters on “The Importance of Not Being God: A Higher Power Is...
watch video
Down From the Mountaintop: Authorities and Structures of Power
This session features Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University) on “As American as the Declaration of Independence? Social Structure and Higher Powers,” Rev. Eugene Rivers...
watch video
Rev. Javier Prades on Post Secularity, Post Modernity, and Pluralism
This session features Rev. Javier Prades, the Rector of the University of San Damaso, Madrid. Presented at the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2018 Fall Conference, “Higher...
watch video
Religion, Science, and Technology in Dialogue
This session features Diana Schaub (Loyola University) on “Lincoln Reads the Bible: Science and Morality in the ‘Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions'”, and Bill Hurlbut...
watch video
Higher Powers Catholicism and the American Project
This colloquy features Patrick Deneen (University of Notre Dame), V. Phillip Muñoz (University of Notre Dame), Gladden Pappin (University of Dallas, American Affairs), and Adrian...
watch video
The Power of Images: Art in the Public Square
This video discusses “The Art of Good Government: Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena” by Elizabeth Lev, and “Mistuned Chords of Memory: Display and...
watch video
Shield or Spear? The Power of Speech
Marc DeGirolami (St. John’s University) on “Higher Purposes of Free Speech”, and Michael Moreland (Villanova University) on “The State and Freedom of Speech.” Session...
watch video
Fr. John Wauck: Mightier than the Sword: St Thomas More and Alexander Solzhenitsyn
This lecture features Fr. John Wauck, a professor at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome. Keynote address at the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2018 Fall...
watch video