On September 29, 2021, the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University, a JMC partner program, will host William Ruger to speak on "The War Powers and the End of the War in Afghanistan."

On March 25, 2020, the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University, a JMC partner program, will host JMC fellow Michael Poliakoff to speak on the role of sport in ancient Greek culture.

On February 13, 2020, the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University, a JMC partner program, will host William Cavanaugh and Jay Richards for a debate on religion's relationship to economics.

On January 22, 2020, the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University will host Paul Cantor, Isaac Butler, and Nichole Miller for a discussion panel on Shakespeare and politics.

On November 14, 2019, the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University will host Yoram Hazony and Aurelian Craiutu for a debate on the virtue of nationalism.

On October 28-29, 2019, the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University will host John von Heyking for two lectures about friendship: one focusing on Augustine, the other on Winston Churchill.

On September 25, 2019, the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University, a JMC partner program, will host Akhil Reed Amar and JMC faculty partner Allen Guelzo for a debate on the electoral college.

On March 29, 2019, the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University, a JMC partner program, will host Matthew J. Franck for a lecture on the state of religious liberty.

JMC fellow Dr. James Piereson will discuss hostility to campus free speech at Villanova's Ryan Center, a JMC partner program.

Archbishop Chaput will visit Villanova University's Ryan Center to discuss Catholicism and the cultural landscape.

Professors Robert George and Cornel West will deliver a lecture on liberal arts education at Villanova on January 19, 2018.

Henry Olsen's op-ed on Ronald Reagan's love of the Constitution and his understanding of it in the Philadelphia Enquirer.

"Defending What We Are"
The Second Annual Russell Kirk Lecture