Year: 2019

The Strategy Bridge Podcast recently featured CSLD’s Associate Director Scott Mobley and his prize-winning book, Progressives in Navy Blue. Scott’s work examines U.S. naval culture, professionalization, and civil-military relations at the end of the 19th …

Recently CSLD Director Richard Avramenko and Associate Director Scott Mobley sat down with the Wisconsin State Journal editorial board to talk about the state of Free Speech in academia.  You can hear their conversation on …

Thanks to all who attended the October 30 debate on Trumpism with Max Boot, Stephen Moore, and Marc Thiessen. Missed the event or would like to watch again? A recording is now available.

CSLD is pleased to announce a new partnership with the academic journal VoeglinView.  Edited by former CSLD Scholar-in-Residence Lee Trepanier, VoeglinView is an online publication dedicated to interdisciplinary and international scholarship and public commentary on …

The Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites submissions for its annual First Book Manuscript Workshop.  The book selected will be the subject of a day-long conference at which …

Applications for academic year and visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellowships at CSLD are now being accepted! The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2020. These appointments offer excellent opportunities for research and teaching that promotes …

The journal Federal History recently published an article authored by CSLD associate director Scott Mobley. Entitled “‘By the Force of Our Arms’: William D. Leahy and the U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua, 1912,” the piece sheds …

Every year the Center runs an essay competition, encouraging undergraduate students to thoughtfully engage with a controversial topic. This year the competition’s prompt was: “Should social media platforms be permitted to censor controversial speech?” The …