Past Events and Participants
Many of our public events listed below have been recorded and can be viewed on .
2016 - 2017
"Inequality in America" (panel discussion)
Benjamin Berger, Swarthmore
Jarvis DeBerry, Times-Picayune
"Free Speech in US Universities" (panel discussion)
Thomas Cushman, Wellesley
Peter Wood, National Association of Scholars
"America's Impending Debt Disaster" (panel discussion)
James Harrigan, Strata Policy
Antony Davies, Duquesne
"Republican Healthcare"
Kyle Swan, Sacramento State
"Ethics and Entrepreneurship"
Alexei Marcoux, Creighton
"Salience, Imagination, and Luck"
Nathan Stout, Tulane
"Justice, Coordination, and Instiutions"
Chad van Schoelandt,Tulane
"Against Pay Secrecy"
Jeffrey Moriarty, Bentley 快播导航
"Can Conversion be Rational?"
John Schwenkler, Florida State 快播导航
"Paterneralism as Constrained Optimization"
Nico Maloberti, Liberty Fund
"Boorishness, Consent, and Objective Attitude"
Eric Cave, Arkansas State
"Against Religious Exemptions"
Tara Smith, 快播导航 of Texas - Austin
"Nietzsche on Aesthetics, Educators, and Education"
Steven Stolz, La Trobe 快播导航 (Melbourne)
"Why We Need More Government and Less Personal Liberty"
Sarah Conly, Bowdoin
"Is the US Legal System a Crime Against Humanity?"
Christopher Wellmon, Washington 快播导航 (St. Louis)
"Adaptive Preferences and Transformative Experiences"
Rosa Terlazzo, Kansas State
2015 - 2016
"The Anatomy of Corruption"
David Schmidtz, 快播导航 of Arizona
"Our Republican Constitution"
Randy Barnett, Georgetown 快播导航 Law School
"Market Failure and Sensible Regulation"
Michael Munger, Duke 快播导航
"In Search of Moral Character"
John Doris, Washington 快播导航 in St. Louis
"Empathy, Psychopathy, and Responsibility"
David Shoemaker, Tulane 快播导航
"Foundations for Moral Repair"
Andrew I. Cohen, Georgia State 快播导航
"Markets without Limits"
Peter Jaworski, Georgetown 快播导航
"The Law as a Sword"
Jonathan Riches, Goldwater Institute
"Self-Governance and Post-Disaster Resiliency"
Virgil Storr, George Mason 快播导航
"Opportunity, Meritocracy, and Social Cohesion: Pick Two"
Ryan Muldoon, 快播导航 of Buffalo
"Capitalism and the Family"
Steven Horwitz, St. Lawrence 快播导航
"Elements of Global Justice"
Fernando Teson, Florida State 快播导航 School of Law
"The Limits of Toleration"
Kevin Stuart, Austin Institute
"The Myth of US Prosperity during WWII"
Robert Higgs, Independent Institute
"Markets without Limits"
Jason Brennan, Georgetown 快播导航
"Entrepreneurship as Experiment"
John Eden, iPiphany Group
2014 - 2015
"Entrepreneurship and the Human Good"
Edward Stringham, Texas Tech
"What's Faith Got to Do With It? Religion and Climate Change"
Andrew Szasz, UC Santa Cruz
"In Defense of a Democratic, Productivist Welfare State"
Michael Moehler, Virginia Tech
"Will America Remain 'One Nation, Indivisible?'"
Joseph R. Reisert, Colby College
"Libertarianism and Parental Licensing"
"Corporate Welfare and the Harm Principle"
Andrew J. Cohen, Georgia State 快播导航
"Regulation of Industry, Employment, and Entrepreneurship"
"The Affordable Care Act and its Alternatives"
James Bailey, Creighton 快播导航
"What Motivates Us To Be Good?"
"The Moral Justification of Police Tactics"
Jennifer Baker, College of Charleston
"Absolutism in the United States"
"Thomas Hobbes and the Right to Healthcare"
Shane Courtland, 快播导航 of Minnesota, Duluth
"Should Doctors Care About the Cost of Healthcare?"
Walter Lane, UNO | James Diaz, LSU | Paul Salles, La. Hospital Association
"Family Values in the Age of Autonomy"
David Meyer, Tulane 快播导航
"Aristotle's Conception of Freedom"
Fred Miller, 快播导航 of Arizona
"Statesmanship and the Constitution in Aristotle's Political Science"
James Stoner, LSU
"Aristotle on the Best Form of Government"
Giovanni Giorgini, 快播导航 of Bologna
"Individualistic Perfectionism: A Neo-Aristotelian Account of an Ethics of Responsibility"
Douglas Rasmussen, St. John's 快播导航
"Aristotle and Kant on Altruism and the Love Command"
Stephen Palmquist, Hong Kong Baptist 快播导航
2013 - 2014
"Liberty, Security, and the Limits of State Action"
Melissa Harris-Perry, Tulane | Salmon Shomade, 快播导航
"The Welfare State"
Roger Pilon, Cato Institute | Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown Law
"Religious Liberty & Public Education"
Barbara Forrest, Southeastern LA | Stephen Harvey, Pepper Hamilton LLP | William Jeynes, CSU Long Beach
"The Morality of Capitalism"
Bradley Hobbs, Florida Gulf Coast | James Payne, 快播导航
"Federalism: The New Nationalism?"
Heather Gerken, Yale Law School | Hon. Stephen Higginson, US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
"Platonic Education and the Idols of the City"
Shawn Welnak, Long Island 快播导航, Post
"Why Rights to Self-Determination Cannot Justify Immigration Restrictions"
Javier Hidalgo, 快播导航 of Richmond
"Institutional Corruption and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy"
William English, Harvard 快播导航
"Why Not Capitalism?"
Jason Brennan, Georgetown 快播导航
"Why We Should Legalize a Market in Political Votes"
James S. Taylor, The College of New Jersey
"Donor Conception and the Right to Genetic Parents' Love"
Melissa Moschella, The Catholic 快播导航 of America
"Improving Perfectionism"
Gwen Bradford, Rice 快播导航
"How to Publicly Justify Religious Exemptions"
Kevin Vallier, Bowling Green State 快播导航
"A Deontological Defense of Private Property"
Bas van der Vossen, UNC Greensboro
2012 - 2013
"Religious Liberty and the Human Good"
Robert P. George, Princeton 快播导航
"An Amazing Year at the Supreme Court"
Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Irvine School of Law
"The Role of Incarceration in Tocqueville's America"
Daniel D'Amico, Loyola 快播导航
"Kant and Biblical Hermeneutics"
Lawrence Pasternack, Oklahoma State 快播导航
"Unified Wholes as Substances"
Kathrin Koslicki, 快播导航 of Colorado-Boulder
"Adapting Plato's Cardinal Virtues for Democratic Leadership"
Eric Weber, The 快播导航 of Mississippi
"Morality, Self-Respect, and the Priority of Liberty"
J.P. Messina, Georgia State 快播导航
"The Tyranny of Freedom"
Barry Schwartz, Swarthmore College
"When Justice Demands Inequality"
John Thrasher, The 快播导航 of Arizona
"Civic Religion in a Free Society"
Charles Griswold, Boston 快播导航
"The Real Fiscal Cliff"
Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital
"Selfishness, Selflessness, and Lives Worth Living"
Hon. Judge Jay C. Zainey, US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
2011 - 2012
"Slavery and the Rule of Law in Colonial Virginia"
David B. Lyons, Boston 快播导航
"Autonomy and God's Commands"
John E. Hare, Yale 快播导航
"Rousseau, Positive Freedom, and Party Government"
Joseph R. Reisert, Colby College
"The Extinction Crisis and the Limits of Human Freedom"
Elisabeth H. Ellis, Texas A&M