yt:channel:UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2012-11-09T15:51:21+00:00 yt:video:GhK7lz4gZLI GhK7lz4gZLI UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2017-06-13T20:41:41+00:00 2017-06-17T01:41:02+00:00 Russ Muirhead on “Democracy and Demagoguery” James Russell Muirhead ’88, a former Rhodes Scholar, got his BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University and his PhD in Government at Harvard. He is the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Professor of Government at Dartmouth. He is currently teaching Government 1080 on American Political Thought as a Visiting Professor in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard. He has written numerous articles. His books are Just Work (2004) and The Promise of Party in a Polarized Age (2014). Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on April 14, 2017. yt:video:-WlN49vdxI4 -WlN49vdxI4 UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2017-06-13T20:34:26+00:00 2017-06-21T02:52:31+00:00 Barton Swaim, on “Donald Trump and the War on Expertise.” Barton Swaim is a writer. He attended the University of South Carolina and the University of Edinburgh. From 2007 to 2010 he worked for Mark Sanford, South Carolina’s governor, as a communications officer and speechwriter. He writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement and The Washington Post. The Speechwriter (2015) on his experience with Governor Sanford is his highly acclaimed first book. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on April 7, 2017. yt:video:bKiCfhY6trE bKiCfhY6trE UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2017-06-13T20:29:03+00:00 2017-06-22T03:30:32+00:00 Irwin Stelzer on “The New Domestic and World Orders: The Meaning of ‘America First’” Irwin Stelzer is an American economist who is the U.S. economic and business columnist for The Sunday Times and The Courier-Mail in Australia. He has been a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard and writes for numerous other publications. He has been at the American Enterprise Institute and senior director and fellow at the Hudson Institute. Stelzer is a consultant on market strategy, pricing and antitrust issues, and regulatory matters for U.S. and United Kingdom industries. He received his PhD in economics from Cornell University and has held teaching appointments at various universities. His published papers are on taxes, energy, and antitrust. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 31, 2017. yt:video:Qd0QsxBj1JE Qd0QsxBj1JE UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2017-06-13T20:22:16+00:00 2017-07-31T20:01:03+00:00 Ruth Wisse on “Anti-Semitism and Why It Matters" This talk is based on a paper to be published in the upcoming Summer issue of National Affairs. A link to the article will be added once available. Ruth Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor Emeritus of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Among her books are If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992); The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture (2000); Jews and Power (2008), and No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Jewish Review of Books and a frequent contributor to Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 24, 2017. yt:video:YTpote4c_QU YTpote4c_QU UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2017-06-13T20:13:20+00:00 2017-06-27T04:28:30+00:00 Allen Guelzo on “The Lovely, Fair, Judicious and Democratic Meaning of the Electoral College” Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era, and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, which won the Lincoln Prize for 2000, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, which won the Lincoln Prize for 2005, and Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, which won the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize for 2008. His most recent works on Lincoln are Abraham Lincoln As A Man of Ideas, and Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction (both 2009). Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013) was a best-seller. He has also served on the National Council on the Humanities. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 10, 2017. yt:video:nhlzUUm5lIA nhlzUUm5lIA UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2017-06-13T20:09:39+00:00 2017-06-19T07:55:59+00:00 Christopher DeMuth on “Congress and the Dilemma of Fiscal Restraint" Christopher DeMuth ’68 is a Distinguished Fellow at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He was President of the American Enterprise Institute from 1986-2008 and Senior Fellow thereat from 2008-2011. DeMuth was Staff Assistant to President Nixon, working for Daniel P. Moynihan in the Nixon White House on urban policy matters and as Chairman of the White House Task Force on Environmental Policy. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, he practiced law, then lectured at the Kennedy School. In Reagan’s first term DeMuth was Administrator for Information and Regulatory Affairs in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief. He has recently written influential articles on Congress and the Constitution for The Wall Street Journal. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on February 10, 2017. yt:video:Er9faDoqwSY Er9faDoqwSY UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2016-12-22T23:29:17+00:00 2017-03-01T07:43:25+00:00 Dennis Hale on “Debating the American Jury” Dennis Hale has taught in the Political Science Department at Boston College since 1978. He has published essays on local government, American political thought, public administration, and the modern experience of citizenship. With Marc Landy, he has edited two volumes of essays by the French political scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Nature of Politics, and Economics and the Good Life: Essays on Political Economy. He is the author, most recently, of The Jury in America: Triumph and Decline (University Press of Kansas, 2016). Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on December 2, 2016. yt:video:x0jXuDStbmY x0jXuDStbmY UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2016-12-22T23:29:02+00:00 2017-07-03T02:53:49+00:00 Mark Blitz on “Natural Limits and The Origin of Political Concepts” Mark Blitz is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy and director of the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World at Claremont McKenna College. He received his BA and PhD from Harvard. He is the author of Plato’s Political Philosophy; Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life, and Heidegger’s Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on December 1, 2016. yt:video:9IIDE9ssNvg 9IIDE9ssNvg UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2016-12-22T23:28:47+00:00 2017-06-19T12:29:25+00:00 Christopher Caldwell on “The Election: What Just Happened?” Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, as well as a regular contributor to the Financial Times and Slate. He writes for, among others, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He is the author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West (2009). He received his BA in English literature from Harvard. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on November 18, 2016. yt:video:3WGXebiiYs4 3WGXebiiYs4 UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2016-12-22T23:28:29+00:00 2017-07-10T18:58:12+00:00 David Azerrad on “How Equal Should Opportunities Be?” David Azerrad is the director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation and the AWC Family Foundation Fellow. He received his PhD from the University of Dallas with a dissertation on the foundations of John Locke’s political thought. He writes for a variety of publications and currently teaches a class on conservative political thought at the American University in D.C. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on November 4, 2016. yt:video:EqUtgFBWezE EqUtgFBWezE UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2016-12-22T23:28:17+00:00 2017-08-05T20:16:53+00:00 Jonathan Haidt on “Two Incompatible Values at American Universities.” Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. He received his BA in philosophy from Yale and his PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Haidt is the author of two books: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006) and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012). Together with Greg Lukianoff he published the much-discussed article “The Coddling of the American Mind” in the September 2015 issue of The Atlantic. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on October 14, 2016. yt:video:lmomSGi7p0w lmomSGi7p0w UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2016-12-22T23:28:01+00:00 2017-05-11T13:04:55+00:00 John Judis on "The Populist Explosion" John Judis on “The Populist Explosion. How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics.” John B. Judis is a journalist and author. He received his M.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley, is a former senior editor at The New Republic and currently a senior writer at The National Journal and editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo. He co-authored The Emerging Democratic Majority, named one of 2002’s best books by The Economist, and wrote Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origin of the Arab/Israeli Conflict (2014). He will speak about his forthcoming book The Populist Explosion. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on October 7, 2016. yt:video:eTX90COIQBQ eTX90COIQBQ UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2016-12-22T23:27:44+00:00 2017-05-12T20:27:39+00:00 Jeb Bush on “Conservative Policy Solutions for 21st Century Challenges.” Jeb Bush was a Republican presidential candidate in the 2016 presidential race. He was the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. In 2011 he received a Bradley Prize for his leadership in educational policy. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on September 30, 2016. yt:video:9-ofBk-8DJk 9-ofBk-8DJk UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2016-11-16T16:25:20+00:00 2017-08-04T09:05:28+00:00 Biennial Post-Election Analysis with William Galston and Bill Kristol Galston and Kristol met for the thirteenth time in their much-anticipated biennial debate, offering the perspectives of two reflective political participants and shrewd observers, both of them experts gifted with what might be called partisan objectivity. We invited Susan Shell of Boston College to add her comments to the mix. Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on November 10, 2016. yt:video:UjMhu3ESMnY UjMhu3ESMnY UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K73Sgkxuup3v00lYACtTQ 2016-06-30T02:06:20+00:00 2016-11-18T15:12:28+00:00 Tod Lindberg: The Politics of Heroism Tod Lindberg is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A 1982 graduate of the University of Chicago, he is the author of The Political Teachings of Jesus (2007), Means to an End: U.S. Interest in the International Criminal Court (2008), and, most recently, The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern (2015). Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 4, 2016.