Law and Politics
Is Promoting Democracy Abroad Bad for Maintaining Democracy at Home?
“Is Promoting Democracy Abroad Bad for Maintaining Democracy at Home?” a discussion with John Yoo (UC Berkeley) and Michael Desch (ND)
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Future of Liberalism
“The Future of Liberalism After Trump: Economic Inclusion, Cultural Conciliation, Political Reform” by William Galston (Wall Street Journal, Brookings Institution). Presented...
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On Protests, Abraham Lincoln, and Tupac
Lisa Mueller is an assistant professor of political science at Macalester College who is spending the 2018–19 academic year as a residential fellow at Notre Dame’s Institute...
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Euthanasia of Patients with Non-Terminal Mental Disorders
Full title of the talk: “Physician Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia of Patients with Non-Terminal Mental Disorders: An Emerging Ethical Crisis.” The speaker Dr. Mark S. Komrad,...
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Racism, Xenophobia, and the Rise of the Far Right at Home and Abroad: Navigating the Call of Justice
On A November 27, 2018, a panel discussed strategies for understanding, naming, and confronting the rise in far-right populism in the United States and beyond. Featuring David...
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Was Women’s Suffrage a Failure?
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 granted American women the right to vote. Critics almost immediately decried women’s suffrage as a failure. This talk...
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The Role of Latinos in American Politics
As the dust settles on the 2018 midterm elections, how the Latino community is shaping the American political landscape. Our guest is Luis Fraga, Director of Notre Dame’s...
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Dealing with North Korea and Iran in a Complex World: Diplomacy, Sanctions, or War?
Each year, the Jacksonville University Public Policy Institute partners with the Notre Dame Club of Greater Jacksonville to present a public policy lecture. On November 8, 2018,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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