Provocation and Civility: Free Speech in Wisconsin High Schools
The Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy is hosting a two-day conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 20–22, on “Freedom of Speech in Wisconsin’s High Schools.” The purpose of the conference is to provide high school principals the knowledge to understand the free speech rights and limitations of students, teachers, and administrators in the high school context.
September 6: Civil-military affairs in the United States
Please join us for a noontime talk on the past, present, and future of civil-military relations in the United States with Dr. Richard H. Kohn, Professor Emeritus of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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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 …