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JOHN M. OLIN LECTURE SERIES

The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Politics

1986-1987

October 8Vladimir Bukovsky, Author, "To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter."
Evil Systems and Evil Men: The Case of the Soviet Union
October 22Robert Conquest, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Stalinism and the Morality of Terror
November 5Emil Fackenheim, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
The Holocaust and Philosophy
January 12James Q. Wilson, Department of Government, Harvard University, Department of Management, UCLA
Crime and Character
January 28Leonard Garment, Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin
Back to the Future: Watergate's Legacy in American Public Life
February 25Julius Lester, Department of Afro-American Studies and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Program,University of Massachusetts
Racism and Evil
March 11Jan Strzelecki, Institute of Sociology, Polish Academy of Science
Understanding the Holocaust?
April 8Frederick J. Crosson, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Christian Teaching about Evil
April 22Jean-Claude Casanova, Commentaire
Are There Still French Intellectuals?
May 6H. Donald Forbes, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Freud and Aggression
May 20Werner Dannhauser, Department of Government, Cornell University
Belief, Unbelief, and Evil


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