Archive for the ‘Miller Program News’ Category
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Summer Institute Seminar by Thomas Pangle based on a reading of Monstesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws.
Faculty Bio:
Thomas Pangle
- Holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
- Earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and completed a dissertation that was published in revised form by the University of Chicago Press as “Montesquieu’s Philosophy of Liberalism: A Commentary on the SPIRIT OF THE LAWS”
- Held the University Professorship in the Dept. of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a visiting professorship at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris
- Has authored nine books and numerous journal articles, and edited four volumes on topics in political philosophy; his most recent text, The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu’s “Spirit of the Laws”, was published in 2010. Other works include a study of political theory’s dialogue with the Bible and an introduction to the teaching of Leo Strauss
Tags: Montesquieu, Political philosophy, Spirit of the Laws, Thomas Pangle, University of Texas at Austin
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Michael Zuckert receives ASFI award for Distinguished Scholarship on the Nature of a Free Society
Tags: Jack Miller Center, Michael Zuckert, Natural law, Political philosophy, Political Science
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
The theme for this year’s two Jack Miller Center Faculty Development Summer Institutes is, “Liberty and Enterprise: The American Founding and the Birth of the Modern Commercial Republic.”
Tags: American Founding, Free Enterprise, Free market, Humanities, Jack Miller Center, Liberty, Undergraduate education
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
The Jack Miller Center’s new Quarterly Report is now available. Click here to download the PDF version.
Thousands of individuals across the United States have already received the JMC Quarterly Report. If you would like to receive the electronic or print editions version of the newsletter, please send an email to Nathan Fortner at nfortner@gojmc.org.
Tags: Newsletter, Program News
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
The Center for Jewish Law and Judaic Studies (JLJS) at DePaul University College of Law (Chicago) will host a conference on May 13 to compare and contrast the fundamental conceptual underpinnings of the founding principles of the American Republic with those of Judaism. The conference, Founding a Nation /Constituting a People, is supported by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History thanks to a $75,000 gift from a leading Chicago philanthropic foundation that wishes to remain anonymous.
Tags: American Founding, DePaul, DePaul University College of Law, Jewish Law, Judaism
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Professor Carl J. Richard will address how the ideas of the Greeks and Romans inspired America’s Founding Fathers.
Tags: Carl J. Richard, Carl Richard, Northwood University, University of Louisiana
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Protecting liberty is the perpetual task of an engaged citizenry.
“Students need to think about the meaning of liberty so they can appreciate the sacrifices that have been made in the past and those that will be needed to protect that liberty in perpetuity,” says Professor Elizabeth Busch, who along with her husband, Professor Nathan Busch, [...]
Tags: Christopher Newport University, civic education, Elizabeth Busch, Elizabeth Kaufer, Elizabeth Kaufer-Busch, Jack Miller Center, Nathan Busch
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
from the Indiana Daily Student
By KATIE DAWSON
Ten panelists from three different continents spoke about one influential Frenchman.
Alexis de Tocqueville scholars from around the world gathered in the Indiana Memorial Union Walnut Room on Friday to celebrate the publication of a bilingual, French and English, edition of “Democracy in America.”
“The best work on American democracy was written [...]
Tags: Alexis de Tocqueville, Aurelian Craiutu, civic education, Jack Miller Center, Liberty Fund, University of Indiana
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions offers dramatic reading series at UCLA Law School.
Tags: Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions, Mark Twain, UCLA Law School
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