Upcoming Events
Guest Speakers
Glenn Loury
Professor of Economics - Brown University
Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. Professor Loury has published mainly in the areas of applied microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality. Loury hosts The Glenn Show with John McWhorter, often addressing questions of race and education.
He will discuss “The Case for Black American Patriotism" on January 23rd, location will be announced soon.
Yeonmi Park
North Korean Defector
Born in North Korea, Park grew up in a punishing society devoted to the worship of Kim Jong-Il. But at the age of 13, she and her family made a daring escape to China in search of a life free of tyranny. There, Park and her mother were sold to Chinese human traffickers. In 2009, Park and her mother crossed the Gobi Desert to Mongolia from China in -40-degree weather, finding their freedom in South Korea. She recounts this story in her memoir In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom.
Park will discuss her experiences and the importance of the rule of law on February 19th, location will be announced soon.
Jeffery Rosen
President and CEO - National Constitution Center
Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts “We the People,” a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. He was previously the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Rosen will discuss his new book, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America on February 24th, location will be announced soon.
Charles C.W. Cooke
Senior Writer - National Review
Cooke is a Senior Writer at National Review and the host of the Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast. He is the author of The Conservatarian Manifesto and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He has been described by The Atlantic as “perhaps the most confident defender of conservatism younger than George Will” and “a principled conservative who is allergic to anything resembling groupthink.” Charles moved to the United States in 2011, became an American citizen in 2018, and lives in Florida.
Cooke will discuss the tension between free speech and efforts to stop “misinformation" with Alexander Tsesis on March 19th, location will be announced soon.
Alexander Tsesis
D’Alemberte Chair, Constitutional Law - Florida State University College of Law
Alexander Tsesis is the D’Alemberte chair in constitutional law at the Florida State University College of Law. He is also the general editor of the Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Oxford Theoretical Foundations in Law. Tsesis’ scholarship and teaching focus on a breadth of subjects, including constitutional law, civil rights, constitutional reconstruction, interpretive methodology, free speech theory, and legal history.
Tsesis will discuss the tension between free speech and efforts to stop “misinformation" with Charles C.W. Cook on March 19th, location will be announced soon.
Beth Akers
Resident Fellow - American Enterprise Institute
Beth Akers is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Her work focuses on labor economics and the economics of higher education. Previously, she was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, the Brookings Institution, and a staff economist with the Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush. Akers is the coauthor of Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt.
Akers will discuss “The Economics of Higher Education" on March 25th, location will be announced soon.