1998-1999
ARCHIVED EVENTS

Alan Wolfe
(Boston University)
“The Politics of Moral Freedom and The Debate About Moral Decline”

Peter Berkowitz
(Harvard University)
“Liberal Democracy and the Moral Virtues”

Robert B. Pippin
(University of Chicago)
“Relativism, Nihilism, and Modern Moral Meaning”

Glenn C. Loury
(Boston University)
“The Moral Poverty of the Welfare Debate”

 

CONFERENCE

“Is America in Moral Decline?”

Theme

“Is America in Moral Decline?”

1999 CONFERENCE:

Is America in Moral Decline?

Papers: Peter Gay (Yale University), "Sexuality Then and Now: Are We More Victorian Than the Victorians?"

Edward Laumann (University of Chicago), "Love, Sex, and Public Morality In the United States: Moving to the Right?"

Response: Robert Licht (Center for Jewish Community Studies)

Papers: Harvey Mansfield (Harvard University), "Feminism and Manliness"

William Galston (University of Maryland), "The Debate Over Marriage and The Family: Why Economics and Culture Both Matter"

Responses: Sharon Krause (Wesleyan University) and Stephen Salkever (Byrn Mawr College)

Paper: Diana Schaub (Loyola College in Maryland), "The Situation, Condition, and Character of Young People: Ruination or Renewal?"

Responses: David Brooks (The Weekley Standard) and Stephen Elkin (University of Maryland)

Paper: Wilson Carey McWilliams (Rutgers University), "Religion and the Renewal of Civic Life"

Responses: Hillel Fradkin (American Enterprise Institute) and Peter Steinfels (The New York Times)

Paper: Clifford Orwin (University of Toronto), "Princess Diana and Mother Theresa: Compassion versus Christian Charity"

Response: Jean Yarbrough (Bowdoin College)