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The John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy


The John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy

presents a lecture series

Democracy in America Today: A Tocquevillian Perspective

Winter and Spring 1984

George Will
January 4: "Individualism and the Moral Foundations of Democratic Government"

Ambassador Alan Keyes
U.S Representative to the Economic and Social Committee of the United Nations
January l8: "Black Statesmanship and the American Regime"

Christopher Lasch
Professor of History, University of Rochester
February 2: "The Discourse on Mass Death: 'Lessons' of the Holocaust"

Samuel Huntington
Professor of Government, Harvard University
Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution
February l5: "Tocqueville's Armies and Ours"

William Bennett
Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities
February 21: "The Shame of the Graduate Schools Revisited"

Ernest Fortin
Professor of Philosopy and Theology, Boston College
March 27: "Dante as Reformer: The Politics of the Divine Comedy"

Michael Walzer
Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies
April l2: "Liberalism and the Art of Separation"

Walter Berns
Distinguished Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Visiting Professor, John M. Olin Center
April 25: Lecture (no title)

Harvey Mansfield, Jr.
Professor of Government, Harvard University
May 23: "Machiavelli and the Modern Executive"


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