The Classical Liberalism seminar series is open to faculty of different backgrounds and perspectives, spanning the arts, sciences, and humanities who are willing to debate ideas and policy issues with rigor, even when doing so may challenge orthodoxy.
Classical liberalism seminars are held bi-weekly on Thursday, unless otherwise indicated.
Schedule
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09 Oct 2020 2:00pm Zoom |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Hoover Institution |
I Will Pay Your Student Debt, If You Give Me Your Freedom |
| 12 Nov 2020 10:30am Zoom |
Bruce Caldwell Duke University |
F.A Hayek Life and Ideas |
| 10 Dec 2020 10:30am Zoom |
Glenn Loury Brown University |
Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? |
| 17 Dec 2020 10:30am Zoom |
Jonathan Haidt New York University Stern School of Business |
Why It Is So Hard To Find the Truth, and Why Viewpoint Diversity Is Essential for the Search |
| 14 Jan 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Bjorn Lomborg Copenhagen Consensus Center |
Inequality, Climate Change and the Cost of Climate Policy Related Reading: |
| 22 Jan 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Harvey Silverglate Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP Â |
Free Speech in Academia in the USA — Its Current Status and Its Prospects for the Future |
| 28 Jan 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Deirdre McCloskey University of Illinois at Chicago |
Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All |
| 04 Feb 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Josiah Ober Stanford University |
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| 11 Feb 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Ian Morris Stanford University |
How Democracies Die: A Very Long-Term View |
| 11 Mar 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Stephen Kotkin Princeton University |
Modern Authoritarianism: What Is It, What Can We Do About It? |
| 19 Mar 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Steven Pinker Harvard University |
An (Unnecessary) Defense of Reason and a (Necessary) Defense of Universities’ Role in Advancing It |
| 25 Mar 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Daniel Jacobson University of Colorado Boulder |
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| 08 Apr 2021 1:00pm Zoom |
John Staddon Duke University |
Fact vs. Passion: Science in an Age of Unreason |
| 22 Apr 2021 10:30am Zoom |
William Nordhaus Yale University |
The Ethics of the Invisible Hand |
| 29 Apr 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Leonidas Montes CEP |
The Morality of Markets: Self-interest and Sympathy |
| 06 May 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Eric Kaufmann University of London |
Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship |
| 27 May 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Peter Arcidiacono Duke University |
Studying Race and Higher Education in a Woke Climate |
| 04 June 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Niall Ferguson Hoover Institution |
Classical Liberalism, Public Health and the Public Sphere |
| 10 June 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Michael Levitt Stanford University |
Lessons from 500 Days Studying Covid-19 |
| 17 June 2021 10:30am Zoom |
Heather Mac Donald Manhattan Institute |
The Diversity Delusion |
| 15 July 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Geoffrey R. Stone University of Chicago |
Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court |
| 5 Aug 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Amy Wax University of Pennsylvania |
Can the Family Survive Liberalism? |
| 19 Aug 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Daniel Klein George Mason University |
Liberalism Emerges |
| 9 Sep 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
John M. Ellis University of California, Santa Cruz |
The Crisis of Higher Education |
| 23 Sep 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Charles Murray AEI |
The Chasm Between Scientific Consensus and Elite Doctrine on Gender, Race, and Class |
| 30 Sep 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Alison McQueen Stanford University |
T. Hobbes Arguments on Religion |
| 14 Oct 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Debra Satz |
What’s Wrong with Inequality |
| 21 Oct 2021 10:30 am E103/Hybrid |
Persis Drell Stanford University |
Stanford’s IDEAL Initiative |
| 28 Oct 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Jennifer Pan Stanford University |
Ideological Configuration and Constraint under Authoritarian Rule |
| 4 Nov 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Barry Weingast Stanford University |
Liberty in Economics and Politics: The Clash between Classical and Neoclassical Views |
| 11 Nov 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Steven Koonin New York University |
Unsettling Climate Science |
| 18 Nov 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Virginia Postrel  |
The Purity Problem |
| 2 Dec 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
David Hirsh University of London |
Antisemitism: A Form of Appearance of Anti-Democratic Thinking, Politics and Movements |
| 9 Dec 2021 10:30 am C106/Hybrid |
Jayanta Bhattacharya Stanford University |
Stanford’s Intolerance of Academic Dissent |
| 16 Dec 2021 10:30 am Zoom |
Martin Z. Bazant Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Guidelines to Limit COVID-19 Transmission and Misinformation |
| 6 Jan 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Axel Kaiser Adolfo Ibáñez University (UAI) |
The Tomb of Neoliberalism: Chile’s Socialist Counter Revolution |
| 13 Jan 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Peter Boghossian  |
How to have Impossible Conversations |
| 20 Jan 2022 10:30 am P107/Hybrid |
Richard Epstein New York University |
An Critical Explication of the Harm Principle |
| 27 Jan 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Gad Saad Concordia University |
The Parasitic Mind |
| 10 Feb 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Richard Muller University of California, Berkeley |
The Origin of Covid-19 |
| 17 Feb 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Michael Sandel
Harvard University |
The Tyranny of Merit |
| 24 Feb 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Brian Leiter University of Chicago |
Academic Freedom:Â What Is It and What Is It Good For? |
| 3 Mar 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Zlavoj Zizek  |
Beyond Capitalism: Feudalism or Communism? |
| 17 Mar 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Nils Karlson Ratio Institute |
Liberal Reform in Sweden |
| 24 Mar 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Jason Brennan Georgetown University |
Laissez-Faire Democracy: Reasons to Regulate Votes |
| 31 Mar 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Lawrence Summers Harvard University |
Reflections on Academic Freedom |
| 14 April 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Norman Naimark Stanford University |
Lessons from the War in Ukraine |
| 20 April 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Jordan B. Peterson University of Toronto |
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| 28 April 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Scott Atlas Stanford University |
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| 19 May 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Richard Shweder University of Chicago |
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| 26 May 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
John Tomasi Brown University |
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| 15 Sep 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Angus Deaton Princeton University |
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| 22 Sep 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Richard Lowery University of Texas, Austin |
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| 29 Sep 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Adrian Wooldridge Bloomberg |
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| 6 Oct 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
David Romps University of California, Berkeley |
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| 13 Oct 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Douglas Murray | The War on the West |
| 27 Oct 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Tyler Cowen George Mason University |
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| 3 Nov 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Peter Thiel Thiel Capital |
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| 17 Nov 2022 10:30 am Zoom |
Roland Fryer Harvard University |
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Seminar Organizers
Professor of Finance (by courtesy) and of Economics (by courtesy)
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences
Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Associate Professor of Accounting
Robert and Marilyn Jaedicke Faculty Scholar for 2020–2021
The James C. Van Horne Professor of Finance