Upcoming Events

Midwest Premiere: Indoctrinate-U, a documentary about politics in the classroom. For details, click here.

Publication: Larry Purdy’s Getting Under the Skin of “Diversity.” A treatisê on the search for the color-blind ideal in college and university administrations. For details, click here.

Tocqueville Speaker Series. For details, click here.

MAS Annual Banquet. Keynote speaker Peter Wood, new Executive Director of the National Association of Scholars.

Recent Events

Mostly Through the Tocqueville Center at the University of Minnesota.

Victor Davis Hanson Lecture
Our Tocqueville Center’s Victor Davis Hanson lecture on the Iraq War was a great success, drawing a standing-room-only crowd of nearly 200.

"Muslims and the West in the Age of Globalization"
Ahmed Samatar
Macalester College
Thursday November 9, 2006 at 12:15pm
Coffman Memorial Union, President's Room
(Map and Parking, Directions via mapquest)

"Shakespeare's Tempest and the Miseducation of American Youth"
Anthony Esolen
Professor of English, Providence College
October 10, 2006

"The Iraq War: Staying the Course"
Victor Davis Hanson
Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow,
Hoover Institution
September 19, 2006
Location: Room 25, Walter F. Mondale Hall (Law School), University of Minnesota, 229 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

"The Clash of Orthodoxes"
Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University April 19, 2005
Place: TBA

"America's Promise Realized: Getting Beyond Race."
Ward Connerly, former University of California Regent and founder of the American Civil Rights Institute, spoke on
Wednesday, March 29, 2006.

Scott Johnson , co-founder of Powerline Blog, and Eric Black , reporter for the Star Tribune debated "The Blogosphere and
the Future of Journalism."
Wednesday, February 15, 2006.

Jonah Goldberg , nationally syndicated columnist and editor of National Review Online , spoke on"The Federal Government
and Natural Disasters"
Tuesday, January 31, 2006.

Alan Kors , University of Pennsylvania professor, co-author of The Shadow University , and founder of the Foundation for
Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) spoke on "The Betrayal of Freedom on America's Campuses."
Tuesday, October 18, 2005.