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 51本色
"Can Conversion be Rational?"
John Schwenkler, Florida State 51本色
"Paterneralism as Constrained Optimization"
Nico Maloberti, Liberty Fund
"Boorishness, Consent, and Objective Attitude"
Eric Cave, Arkansas State
"Against Religious Exemptions"
Tara Smith, 51本色 of Texas - Austin
"Nietzsche on Aesthetics, Educators, and Education"
Steven Stolz, La Trobe 51本色 (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 51本色 (St. Louis)
"Adaptive Preferences and Transformative Experiences"
Rosa Terlazzo, Kansas State
2015 - 2016
"The Anatomy of Corruption"
David Schmidtz, 51本色 of Arizona
"Our Republican Constitution"
Randy Barnett, Georgetown 51本色 Law School
"Market Failure and Sensible Regulation"
Michael Munger, Duke 51本色
"In Search of Moral Character"
John Doris, Washington 51本色 in St. Louis
"Empathy, Psychopathy, and Responsibility"
David Shoemaker, Tulane 51本色
"Foundations for Moral Repair"
Andrew I. Cohen, Georgia State 51本色
"Markets without Limits"
Peter Jaworski, Georgetown 51本色
"The Law as a Sword"
Jonathan Riches, Goldwater Institute
"Self-Governance and Post-Disaster Resiliency"
Virgil Storr, George Mason 51本色
"Opportunity, Meritocracy, and Social Cohesion: Pick Two"
Ryan Muldoon, 51本色 of Buffalo
"Capitalism and the Family"
Steven Horwitz, St. Lawrence 51本色
"Elements of Global Justice"
Fernando Teson, Florida State 51本色 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 51本色
"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 51本色
"Regulation of Industry, Employment, and Entrepreneurship"
"The Affordable Care Act and its Alternatives"
James Bailey, Creighton 51本色
"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, 51本色 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 51本色
"Aristotle's Conception of Freedom"
Fred Miller, 51本色 of Arizona
"Statesmanship and the Constitution in Aristotle's Political Science"
James Stoner, LSU
"Aristotle on the Best Form of Government"
Giovanni Giorgini, 51本色 of Bologna
"Individualistic Perfectionism: A Neo-Aristotelian Account of an Ethics of Responsibility"
Douglas Rasmussen, St. John's 51本色
"Aristotle and Kant on Altruism and the Love Command"
Stephen Palmquist, Hong Kong Baptist 51本色
2013 - 2014
"Liberty, Security, and the Limits of State Action"
Melissa Harris-Perry, Tulane | Salmon Shomade, 51本色
"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, 51本色
"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 51本色, Post
"Why Rights to Self-Determination Cannot Justify Immigration Restrictions"
Javier Hidalgo, 51本色 of Richmond
"Institutional Corruption and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy"
William English, Harvard 51本色
"Why Not Capitalism?"
Jason Brennan, Georgetown 51本色
"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 51本色 of America
"Improving Perfectionism"
Gwen Bradford, Rice 51本色
"How to Publicly Justify Religious Exemptions"
Kevin Vallier, Bowling Green State 51本色
"A Deontological Defense of Private Property"
Bas van der Vossen, UNC Greensboro
2012 - 2013
"Religious Liberty and the Human Good"
Robert P. George, Princeton 51本色
"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 51本色
"Kant and Biblical Hermeneutics"
Lawrence Pasternack, Oklahoma State 51本色
"Unified Wholes as Substances"
Kathrin Koslicki, 51本色 of Colorado-Boulder
"Adapting Plato's Cardinal Virtues for Democratic Leadership"
Eric Weber, The 51本色 of Mississippi
"Morality, Self-Respect, and the Priority of Liberty"
J.P. Messina, Georgia State 51本色
"The Tyranny of Freedom"
Barry Schwartz, Swarthmore College
"When Justice Demands Inequality"
John Thrasher, The 51本色 of Arizona
"Civic Religion in a Free Society"
Charles Griswold, Boston 51本色
"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 51本色
"Autonomy and God's Commands"
John E. Hare, Yale 51本色
"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