Classical Liberalism Seminars

The Classical Liberalism seminar series is open to faculty of different backgrounds and perspectives, spanning the arts, sciences, and humanities who are willing to debate ideas and policy issues with rigor, even when doing so may challenge orthodoxy.

Classical liberalism seminars are held bi-weekly on Thursday, unless otherwise indicated.

Schedule

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
09 Oct 2020 2:00pm Zoom	Ayaan Hirsi Ali Hoover Institution	I Will Pay Your Student Debt, If You Give Me Your Freedom
12 Nov 2020 10:30am Zoom	Bruce Caldwell Duke University	F.A Hayek Life and Ideas
10 Dec 2020 10:30am Zoom	Glenn Loury Brown University	Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?
17 Dec 2020 10:30am Zoom	Jonathan Haidt New York University Stern School of Business	Why It Is So Hard To Find the Truth, and Why Viewpoint Diversity Is Essential for the Search
14 Jan 2021 10:30am Zoom	Bjorn Lomborg Copenhagen Consensus Center	Inequality, Climate Change and the Cost of Climate Policy Related Reading: Climate Policy Without Wasting Trillions
22 Jan 2021 10:30am Zoom	Harvey Silverglate Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP	Free Speech in Academia in the USA — Its Current Status and Its Prospects for the Future
28 Jan 2021 10:30am Zoom	Deirdre McCloskey University of Illinois at Chicago	Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
04 Feb 2021 10:30am Zoom	Josiah Ober Stanford University	Democracy Before Liberalism
11 Feb 2021 10:30am Zoom	Ian Morris Stanford University	How Democracies Die: A Very Long-Term View
11 Mar 2021 10:30am Zoom	Stephen Kotkin Princeton University	Modern Authoritarianism: What Is It, What Can We Do About It?
19 Mar 2021 10:30am Zoom	Steven Pinker Harvard University	An (Unnecessary) Defense of Reason and a (Necessary) Defense of Universities’ Role in Advancing It
25 Mar 2021 10:30am Zoom	Daniel Jacobson University of Colorado Boulder	Mill Does Not Have A Harm Principle (and Why it Matters for Liberalism)
08 Apr 2021 1:00pm Zoom	John Staddon Duke University	Fact vs. Passion: Science in an Age of Unreason
22 Apr 2021 10:30am Zoom	William Nordhaus Yale University	The Ethics of the Invisible Hand
29 Apr 2021 10:30am Zoom	Leonidas Montes CEP	The Morality of Markets: Self-interest and Sympathy
06 May 2021 10:30am Zoom	Eric Kaufmann University of London	Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship
27 May 2021 10:30am Zoom	Peter Arcidiacono Duke University	Studying Race and Higher Education in a Woke Climate
04 June 2021 10:30am Zoom	Niall Ferguson Hoover Institution	Classical Liberalism, Public Health and the Public Sphere
10 June 2021 10:30am Zoom	Michael Levitt Stanford University	Lessons from 500 Days Studying Covid-19
17 June 2021 10:30am Zoom	Heather Mac Donald Manhattan Institute	The Diversity Delusion
15 July 2021 10:30 am Zoom	Geoffrey R. Stone University of Chicago	Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court
5 Aug 2021 10:30 am Zoom	Amy Wax University of Pennsylvania	Can the Family Survive Liberalism?
19 Aug 2021 10:30 am Zoom	Daniel Klein George Mason University	Liberalism Emerges
30 Sep 2021 10:30 am Zoom	Alison McQueen Stanford University	T. Hobbes Arguments on Religion
14 Oct 2021 10:30 am Zoom	Debra Satz Stanford University
28 Oct 2021 10:30 am Zoom	Jennifer Pan Stanford University
4 Nov 2021 10:30 am Zoom	Barry Weingast Stanford University	Liberty in Economics and Politics: The Clash between Classical and Neoclassical Views
11 Nov 2021 10:30 am Zoom	Steven Koonin New York University	Unsettling Climate Science
18 Nov 2021 10:30 am Zoom	Virginia Postrel