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Western Civilization

The following online lectures are related to Western civilization:

William B. Allen, Daniel B. Barnhizer, Robert A. Sedler and Thomas E. Weisskopf, Should a Free Society Allow Affirmative Action Preferences in Higher Education?
Elizabeth Ashamu, Catherine Herman and Jordan Hylden, 2006 Simon Fellowship Awards
Doug Bandow and Victor Davis Hanson, What is America's Role in the World: Preemption and the War on Terror?
Derek Beales, A Lost Society: Monasteries in Post-Reformation Europe
Bradley J. Birzer, The True King: Tolkien and the Medieval
Bradley J. Birzer, Tolkien, Wagner, Nationalism, and Modernity
Bradley J. Birzer, The Legacy of 20th Century Ideologues
Christopher Olaf Blum, Robert Nisbet and the French Conservative Tradition
Patricia Bode and David Schaefer, Is Multiculturalism Good for Higher Education?
James E. Bond, The Meaningless of "Liberal" and "Conservative" In Contemporary American Politics
Donald Boudreaux and Thea Lee, Is Free Trade Good for America?
M. E. Bradford, Professor Oakeshott and the American Identity: An Alternative Overlay
Cleanth Brooks, A History of the Southern Review
Josiah Bunting, Tocqueville, Newman, and 21st Century America
William F. Campbell, Gerhart Niemeyer, Peter J. Stanlis and Stephen Tonsor, The Meaning of a Liberal Education — Panel Discussion
Allan C. Carlson, Russell Kirk, Northern Agrarian
Frank Chodorov, Debunking the State
David Cole and John J. Miller, Can a Free Society Tolerate Warrantless Spying in the War on Terror?
Alberto Coll, Reconciling National Security with Liberty: A Key Challenge for the United States Today
Ward Connerly and Tim Wise, Is Affirmative Action Good for America?
Louise Cowan, Scripture Teaching
T. Kenneth Cribb, Giving Higher Education a Higher Purpose
John Davenport, The Flowering of Enterprise
Leo Paul S. de Alvarez, Nature of Community
Leo Paul S. de Alvarez, History of Modern Political Theory
Chantal Delsol, Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World
Patrick Deneen, On Vocation
Patrick Deneen, Manners and Morals; Or, Why You Should Not Eat the Person Sitting Next to You
Martin Diamond, Two Cheers for the American Republic: Ancient Virtue and Modern Republican Decency
Rod Dreher, Crunchy Conservatism
Dinesh D"Souza and David L. Holmes, Religion and the Campus: Should the Wren Cross be Reinstated in Wren Chapel
William Y. Elliott, The Exemplar of Civilization
M. Stanton Evans, Revolt on the Campus Part 2 Q&A
M. Stanton Evans, Student Body Speech
M. Stanton Evans, Conservatism and the Reagan Administration
M. Stanton Evans, Reflections on a Life in the Movement
M. Stanton Evans, The New Left and the New Right
Michael P. Federici, Russell Kirk and the Conservative Constitution
Milton Friedman, The Inflationary Recession - Its Causes and Cure
Bruce Frohnen, The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism
Maggie Gallagher, Jonathan Rauch, William Galston and Harvey C. Mansfield, Will Same-Sex Marriage Hurt America?
Adam Garfinkle, "Fear Gives Bad Advice": The Tragedy of Post-9/11 U.S. Anti-Terrorism Policy
Vigen Guroian, Moral Imagination
Vigen Guroian, G.K. Chesterton and Christian Humanism
Victor Davis Hanson and Benjamin Powell, Should a Free Society Limit Immigration?
Darryl Hart, Transformed? Protestants and American Culture
Darryl Hart, Wendell Berry's Unlikely Case for Conservative Christianity
Steven Hayward, Churchill on Leadership
Mark C. Henrie, Culture: High, Low, Middlebrow and Popular
Will Herberg, What is the Moral Crisis of Our Time?
Will Herberg, What is Philosophy and What is its State or Condition in Present Day America
Eugene W. Hickok, Citizenship and Higher Education
Russell Hittinger, American Constitutionalism
Albert H. Hobbs, Orwells Utopia and Economic Planning
David Hoeveler, Richard B. Hovey, T. John Jamieson, Virgil P. Nemoianu, Thomas R. Nevin and George A. Panichas, Irving Babbitt Panel Discussion
Paul Hollander, Reality of Utopia - Consequences of the Divergence Between Theory and Practice
John A. Howard, Twenty Years of the Ingersoll Prizes: A Retrospective
Bill Kauffman, Restoring American Regionalism
Bill Kauffman, Wendell Berry on War and Peace: Or, Port William Versus the Empire
Russell Kirk and E. Christian Kopff, Roman History Q&A
Russell Kirk, The Idea of Order
Russell Kirk, Civilization without Religion
Russell Kirk, Fiction and the Armed Doctrine
Russell Kirk, The Purpose of a University
Russell Kirk, The Achievement of Eric Voegelin
Israel M. Kirzner, Competition Really Means
Israel M. Kirzner, Price System
Alan C. Kors, Is This Still the Age of Socialism?
Peter Kreeft, The Mystery of Mankind's Love Affair with the Sea
James Kurth, Conflicts in Liberalism and Security Issues
Peter Augustine Lawler, Does Human Nature Have a Future?
Peter Augustine Lawler, Putting Locke Back in the Locke Box: Nisbet and the Emerging Communitarian Coalition in America
Peter Augustine Lawler, The Limits of American Utopian Imagination: Reflections on David Brooks, Poet of Our Middle Class
Peter Augustine Lawler, The Problem of Technology
Dwight R. Lee, The Inseparablility of Liberty and Markets
Bernard Lewis, Islam and the West
John Lukacs, Christopher Dawson's Historical Philosophy
John Lukacs, Last Rites
Roger Lundin, Memory and Love: Literature and Liberal Learning
Daniel J. Mahoney, Humanitarian Democracy and the Post Political Temptation
Daniel J. Mahoney, Teaching Greatness in an Egalitarian Age
Harvey C. Mansfield, Conservatism Today
Mychal Massie and Ronald Takaki, Is Affirmative Action Good for America
Ted McAlister, The Romance of Conservatism: Russell Kirk and a Conservative Aesthetic
Wilfred M. McClay, Historical Consciousness, Patriotism, and the American Experiment
Wilfred M. McClay, David Riesman and the Problem of Diversity in American Education
Paul McCracken, The Free Market and American Preeminence
David L. Meiselman, Inflation and Unemployment
David L. Meiselman, Money Supply Process
John J. Miller, Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America"s Disastrous Relationship with France
Thomas Molnar, The New Left
Marion Montgomery, Flannery O'Connor: Poet of Mystery & Manners
Thomas G. Moore, Deregulating the U.S. Economy: Part I
James Muller, Winston Churchill's Understanding of Politics
Ethan A. Nadelmann and James Q. Wilson, Drugs in a Free Society: Prohibition or Legalization
George H. Nash, Russell Kirk and the American Conservative Movement
George H. Nash, Books and the Founders
George H. Nash, Hayek and the American Conservative Movement
Gerhart Niemeyer, United Nations
Paul Niemeyer, Gerhart Niemeyer: A Life
Gerhart Niemeyer, Peaceful Coexistance: A Western Illusion
John Owen, St. Benedict
George A. Panichas, Babbit and Religion
Michael Platt, The Young, the Good, and the West
Robert A. Preston, American Catholicism
Robert A. Preston, Richard Weaver on Equality: A Metaphysical Perspective
Andrew Roberts, 2007 Paolucci/Bagehot Book Awards
James Rogers, Democratic Anarchy and American Constitutionalism
Herbert Romerstein, Communist Influence on the American Campus
Robert Royal, The Importance of Religion to the Development of the West
Claes G. Ryn, Babbit and the Problem of Reality
James V. Schall, S.J., Culture is Never Neutral
Roger Scruton, Culture Matters
Hans Sennholz, The Gross Market Rate of Interest
Arthur Shenfield, The Vindication of Capitalism, True or False
Mark Skousen, Why Did Milton Friedman Succeed While Other Free-Market Economists Failed?
Ted J. Smith, On Richard M. Weaver
Joe Sobran, The Totalitarian Temptation: The New Liberalism
Peter J. Stanlis, Literature as a Counter to Nihilism
Peter J. Stanlis, Frost's War with 20th Century Ideology
Lawrence Stepelevich, Meaning of Metaphysics
Lawrence Stepelevich, The Final View
Lawrence S. Stepelvich, Problem with Marx
Brad Lowell Stone, Robert Nisbet and Conservative Intellectual Tradition
James R. Stoner, Jr., A Harmonious and Consistent Whole: The Framing of the Constitution and the Common Law
Walter Sullivan, Renascence and Beyond a Speculation
Andrew A. Tadie, G. K. Chesterton: Darling of Liberals or Conservatives?
Terry Teachout, Does Chambers Matter?
Clarence Thomas, Remarks
Procter Thomson, Principles and Policies: From the Low Price of Natural Gas to the High Price of Heroin
Bruce S. Thornton, Hellenism, Hebraism, and Americanism
Stephen Tonsor, The Romantic Revolution and the Loss of Pride
Unknown Lecturer, Q&A
Harry C. Veryser, Conservatism and Humane Economics
Eliseo Vivas, On Self Government
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Sorcery
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Neo-Conservatism and Neo-Liberalism
Ludwig von Mises, Economic and Social Organization: The Free Market and Individual Liberty versus Socialism and the Fuehrer Principle
Richard M. Weaver, Relativism and the Crisis of Our Times
David M. Whalen, On John Henry Cardinal Newman
Gleaves Whitney, The Thought of Christopher Dawson
Frederick D. Wilhelmsen, Art and Religion Part 2
Walter E. Williams, The Role of Government in a Free Society
Walter E. Williams, Socio-Economic Progress of Minorities Part 1
Francis Graham Wilson, Liberal Arts
Bradford P. Wilson, Civic Education and Culture
Francis Graham Wilson, What Kind of Political Tactics Might Be Used By Conservatives?
Gregory Wolfe, Cult and Culture
Christopher Wolfe, Natural Law and Liberalism: Can this Marriage be Saved?
R. V. Young, At War With the Word
Donald Atwell Zoll, The Travails of the Philosophy of Science

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April 26, 2018

Western Civilization