5240, UW Law School @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ilya Shapiro (The Manhattan Institute) UW Law School, Room 5240 April 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm Talk on Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites. Open to all. Co-sponsored by the UW Law School Federalist Society. …
Prof. Luke Foster (Hillsdale College)
Law School, Room 7200 @ 12:00 pm
The American Founding era saw widespread agreement that highly-educated leaders would be necessary for the new republic, but also intense debates about the appropriate setting for elite education (state or Federal), what elites should know, and the proper relationship between elites and people. These debates produced models of elite education that remain decisive in America today. Jefferson’s vision of a skeptical, scientific elite who would be reliably elevated by their local fellow-citizens for their technical ability looks very different from Benjamin Rush’s ideal of a corps steeped in self-discipline whose statecraft would steer the federal government. John Adams’ account of emulation helps explain why Jeffersonian meritocracy has proved so unappealing in practice and why today’s initiatives for higher-education reform would benefit from a Rushian civics.
Pyle Center, Room 325/326 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Join expert faculty from UW-Madison and beyond to explore the UW’s new rules on campus speech and their implications for dissent on campus.
Casey Mattox
Law School, Room 5246 @ 12:00 pm
Join CSLD and the Federalist Society for a free lunch lecture by Casey Mattox, Vice President for Legal Strategy at Stand Together and Senior Advisor at Americans for Prosperity, to discuss the state of free …
Professor Derek Webb
University of Wisconsin Law School, Room 7200 (975 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI) @ 12:00 pm
"The Spirit of Amity: The Constitution's Forgotten Cover Letter and the Original Meaning of Civility." Drawing on his forthcoming book about George Washington’s letter transmitting the U.S. Constitution to Congress, Professor Derek Webb will discuss what Washington meant by "the spirit of amity"--a disposition Washington asserted was indispensable to the creation of the Constitution. Professor Webb will explore what that concept meant to the founding generation; how it played out at a few key moments during the debates over the creation and ratification of the Constitution; and how it differs in some ways from contemporary understandings of civility.
Law School 2260 @ 7:00 pm
Conservative Political Thought Lecture Series Featuring Patrick Deneen from Notre Dame University
4850 Grainger @ 2:25 pm
Conservative Political Thought Lecture Series Featuring Joshua Mitchell from Georgetown University
4850 Grainger @ 2:25 pm
Conservative Political Thought Lecture Series Featuring Rachel Lu from Liberty Fund
