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Boston College: Democracy and Enlightenment – The Challenge of Rousseau

On November 10-11, 2022, the John Marshall Project at Boston College, a JMC partner program, will host a two-day conference featuring leading scholars of the Enlightenment period who will present […]

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Rita Koganzon: Liberal States, Authoritarian Families

Faculty partner Rita Koganzon has recently published a book Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood & Education in Early Modern Thought.

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Benjamin Storey: Why We Are Restless – On the Modern Quest for Contentment

JMC fellow Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey have recently co-written a new book, Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment.

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Carthage College: Rousseau’s Gentle Madames and How Love Will Save Us All

On March 19, 2020, the Abraham Lincoln Forum for the Liberal Arts at Carthage College, a new JMC partner program, is hosting JMC fellow Andrea Kowalchuk for a lecture on Rousseau's view of women.

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Harvard University: Sex, Freedom and Education in Rousseau’s Emile

On February 7, 2019, the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University, a JMC partner program, hosted JMC fellow Rita Koganzon for a lecture examining Rousseau's view of women.

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The Founder of Founding

James Ceaser, a JMC board member and faculty partner, explores the concept of political foundings in his National Affairs article.

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Rousseau’s Effort to Secure Republican Sovereignty

JMC fellow Christopher Kelly recently published an article on Rousseau's view of sovereignty in the Acta Politologica.

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Rousseau and His Response to Modernity

JMC fellow John T. Scott visited Boise State's American Founding Initiative to discuss Rousseau's take on modernity.

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Podcast: Wilfred McClay on Civil Religion

The Tikvah Fund has released a podcast featuring JMC fellow and board member Wilfred McClay discussing American civil religion.

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“Rousseau and Smith’s Radical Resemblances”

Richard Tuck reflects on Hont's posthumously published "Politics in a Commercial Society," the textual version of the six Carlyle Lectures Hont gave in Oxford in 2009.

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At UC Davis: Rousseau and the Civil Religion Tradition

UC Davis Political Science, January 25

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