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 …
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Recording of Debate on Trumpism Available
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 Now Partnering with the VoegelinView Journal
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 …
First Book Manuscript Workshop Applications for 2019
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 …
CSLD Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellowships for AY2020-21
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 …
New Book Examines the Shifting Political Orientations of Thought Leaders
During his term as a CSLD Visiting Scholar, Lee Trepanier (Professor of Political Science, Saginaw Valley State University) co-edited a volume entitled Walk Away: When the Political Left Turns Right. The book examines key twentieth-century …
CSLD Affiliate Published in Federal History Journal
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 …
Undergraduate essay competition winners announced
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 …
New issue of The Political Science Reviewer available
A new issue of The Political Science Review is now available. Volume 42, No. 2 is focused on a symposium on the political thought of Robert Nisbet. The issue also includes two of the Reviewer’s signature “Author …
CSLD affiliates published in American Journal of Political Science
CSLD director Richard Avramenko and graduate fellow Michael Promisel’s piece “When Toleration Becomes a Vice: Naming Aristotle’s Third Unnamed Virtue” has recently been published in leading political science journal, the American Journal of Political Science. They suggest …