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2000-2001
ARCHIVED EVENTS

 

David Brooks
(Weekly Standard  and Newsweek)

“Bobo Politics”

 

William Kristol
(The Weekly Standard)
and David Rohde
(Michigan State University)
“Parties and Partisanship in the Wake of the Clinton Presidency and the Election of 2000”

 

Rogers M. Smith
(Yale University)
“Whither the Supreme Court – and Does It Matter?”

 

CONFERENCES
 

“Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History: A Reassessment”

“Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History: Contexts and Subtexts”

 

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THEME

“Politics after
the Election of 2000”

2001 CONFERENCE:
 
Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History:
A Reassessment
(at Michigan State University)

Conferences organized with the John M. Olin Center, University of Chicago, and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich, Germany.

Paper: Susan Shell (Boston College), “Natural Right and the Historical Approach”

Paper: Nasser Behnegar (Boston College), “Natural Right and the Distinction Between Facts and Values”

Paper: Christopher Bruell (Boston College), “On the Place of the Treatment of Classical Philosophy in the Plan of Natural Right and History

Paper: David Bolotin (St. John’s College), “The Two Chapters on Classical Philosophy in Natural Right and History

Paper: David Leibowitz (Michigan State University), “Modern Natural Right: Hobbes”

Paper: Thomas Pangle (University of Toronto), “Modern Natural Right: Locke”

Paper: Victor Gourevitch (Wesleyan University), “The Crisis of Modern Natural Right: Rousseau”

Paper: Harvey C. Mansfield (Harvard University), “The Crisis of Modern Natural Right: Burke”

Paper: Pierre Manent (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), “The Whole and Its Parts: Experiences and Hypotheses”

 

Conference: Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History:
Contexts and Subtexts
(at the University of Chicago)

Paper: Hillel Fradkin (American Enterprise Institute), “The Enchanted Forest: Natural Right and History and Leo Strauss’s Engagement with Medieval Jewish and Islamic Thought”

Paper: Steven Smith (Yale University), “The Situation of Modern Judaism in Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History

Paper: David Janssens (Tilburg University), “Leo Strauss’s Thought before Natural Right and History: Natural Right and the Socratic Question”

Paper: Daniel Tanguay (University of Ottawa), “Natural Right and History in Preparation: Secularization as a Case Study”

Paper: James Ceaser (University of Virginia), “The American Context for Natural Right and History

Paper: James Nichols (Claremont McKenna College), “On Leo Strauss’s Engagement with Alexandre Kojeve and its Relation to Natural Right and Historyv

Paper: Mark Lilla (University of Chicago), “Leo Strauss, Vico and Natural Right and History

Paper: Richard Velkley (Catholic University of America), “Natural Right and History as a Response to the Challenge of Martin Heidegger”

   
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