Past Events
Spring 2025
Feb. 27: Conservatism vs. Populism with Mr. Trey Gowdy
Jan. 30: Israel's Moral War with Yaron Brook, Ph.D.
Fall 2024
Nov. 7: Benjamin Franklin: British Subject, American Constitutionalist with Brendan McConville, Ph.D.
Oct. 17: How the Soviets Kept a Nation in Chains with Mr. Michael Malice
Spring 2024
March 28: Recovering the Purpose of Liberal Education with Larry P. Arnn, Ph.D.
Fall 2023
Oct. 10: Why Athens? Character and the Cultural Revolution with Loren J. Samons, Ph.D.
Sept. 12: The Roberts Court and the Administrative State with Mr. Adam White.
Spring 2023
April 6: Beyond Gridlock: Constructive Majorities and the Separation of Powers with Alex Hindman, Ph.D.
Feb. 23: Lincolnomics: How Abraham Lincoln Created a New Economy for America with Allen C. Guelzo, Ph.D.
Fall 2022
Oct. 14: The Future of Education Freedom: A Conversation with Neal McCluskey, Ph.D., and Ian V. Rowe
Sept. 20: Slavery and the Constitution with Michael Zuckert, Ph.D.
Spring 2022
March 10: On a Certain Human Passion: Regulating Hatred On Campus and Beyond with Robert C. Bartlett, Ph.D.
Feb. 22: Václav Havel and the Problem of Dissent with Flagg Taylor, Ph.D.
Fall 2021
Sept. 14: Reimagining the Great Emancipator with Ralph Lerner, Ph.D.
Spring 2021
April 7: The Political Chemistry of The Federalist with Jean Yarbrough, Ph.D.
March 9: A Conversation about Lincoln's Second Inaugural with Diana Schaub, Ph.D.
Feb. 17: One Big Unhappy Family: Aristophanes' Comic Critique of Communism with Derek Duplessie, Ph.D.
Fall 2020
Dec. 1: Crony Capitalism and the American Constitution with Michael Munger, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at Duke University
Sept. 23: A Conversation in Honor of Constitution Day with Yuval Levin, Ph.D., Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at AEI
Spring 2020
March 4: Is Western Civilization Worth Saving? with Andrew Sullivan and Yaron Brook
Feb. 12: Persuasion and the Nature of Politics by Mark Blitz, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College
Jan. 23: Rome, Machiavelli's Discourses, and the Fate of Imperial Republics by Daniel Kapust, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fall 2019
Oct. 30: A Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University and Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Oct. 1: The Genius of Wealth Inequality and Free Markets by John Tamny, Vice President at FreedomWorks and Director of its Center for Economic Freedom
Sept. 20: Why Not Socialism? - Murray Bessette, Ph.D., Director of Academic Programs at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Sept. 5: Cicero and the Roman Crisis by Adam Thomas, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Lyceum Program at Clemson University and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science
Spring 2019
April 10: Aristotle on Economics' Need for Moral Philosophy by John Pascarella, Ph.D., Hayek Visiting Scholar at the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and teacher in the Lyceum Program
March 13: Political Economy of Terrorism and Economic Freedom as a Counter Measure by Anne Bradley, Ph.D., George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and the Academic Director at The Fund for American Studies
Feb. 27: The Left, the Right and the Contemporary Political Landscape by David Azerrad, Ph.D., director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics and an AWC Family Foundation Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Feb. 13: JFK to Trump: The Cultural Legacy of the 1960s by James Piereson, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and president and trustee of the William E. Simon Foundation
Fall 2018
Nov. 13: The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America by Roger Kimball, American art critic, social commentator and editor and publisher of The New Criterion
Spring 2018
March 15: Promo: Who Was John Adams? by C. Bradley Thompson, Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism
Jan. 30: Capitalism vs Socialism: Which is the Moral System? by Yaron Brook, chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute
Fall 2017
Oct. 19: The Death of Free Speech? with Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report, Jordan Peterson from the University of Toronto and Onkar Ghate from the Ayn Rand Institute
Spring 2017
March 8: Socialism: A Century Of Death And Destruction by Richard Ebeling, BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina
Fall 2016
Dec. 12: 100 Years of Communism with Mr. Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Spring 2016
June 28: The Relationship Between Government and Rights by Randy E. Barnett, director of the Georgetown University Center for the Constitution
June 1: Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People by Randy E. Barnett, director of the Georgetown University Center for the Constitution
March 9: [TEASER] -- The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses by Alan Charles Kors, co-founder of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
March 9: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses by Alan Charles Kors, co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
Feb. 29: The History of Moral, Political and Economic Thought by Eric Mack, Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University
Fall 2015
Aug. 25: PROMO -- Living Without Lies: On the Nature of a Liberal Arts Education by C. Bradley Thompson, Ph.D., Executive Director, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism
Aug. 25: Living Without Lies: On The Nature Of A Liberal Arts Education by C. Bradley Thompson, Ph.D., Executive Director, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism
Spring 2015
May 28: By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission by Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute
April 10: Free Speech Under Siege by Steve Simpson, Director of Legal Studies, Ayn Rand Institute
March: About CISC - C. Bradley Thompson, Ph.D., Executive Director, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism
Fall 2014
Oct. 15: Bootleggers and Baptists - Bruce Yandle, Dean Emeritus of the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clemson University
Sept. 17: Is ObamaCare Constitutional? A Debate with Steve Simpson and Neil Siegel
Spring 2014
Champion of the Market: The Life and Ideas of F.A. Hayek by Bruce Caldwell, Hayek scholar and general editor of the Collected Works of F.A. Hayek
Fall 2013
Nov. 7: Was Jesus a Socialist? with distinguished scholars Robert P. George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, and Ron Sider, Professor of Theology at the Palmer Theological Seminary
Spring 2013
Feb. 12: The Seven Principles of Economic Freedom by Lawrence Reed, President of FEE
Fall 2012
Free Market Revolution by Yaron Brook, Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute and the author of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government
Spring 2012
April 17: Why Marxism? With C Bradley Thompson, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University
April 17: Why Marxism Highlights with C Bradley Thompson, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University
[HIGHLIGHT] - The Legacy of Socialism by Alan Charles Kors, Ph.D., Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
Fall 2011
Sept. 8: The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen, Ph.D., in economics from Harvard University, professor of economics at George Mason University
Spring 2011
March 9: Socialism's Legacy: Lest We Forget by Alan Charles Kors, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
Fall 2010
The Higher Education Bubble and What Comes Next by Glenn Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee and the founder of Instapundit
Spring 2010
Feb. 24: The Right Kind of Rules: What Washington Can Learn from Twitter by Virginia Postrel
Fall 2009
Oct. 6: Leadership and Values by John Allison IV, chairman and former CEO of BB&T Corp.
Spring 2008
March 5: The Moral and Economic Foundations of Capitalism by Richard Epstein, University of Chicago law professor
