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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
7:30 PM
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The Madison Hotel
1177 15th Street NW
Washington, DC
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The Honorable Rick Santorum and The Ethics and Public Policy Center cordially invite you to attend the lecture "The Defense of the West: How to Respond to the Islamist Challenge" with Professor Roger Scruton on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 from 6:00- 7:30 p.m. at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C. A reception will follow the lecture.
Roger Scruton is currently Research Professor for the Institute for the Psychological Sciences where he teaches philosophy at their graduate school in both Washington and Oxford. He is a writer, philosopher and conservative public commentator on various political and cultural issues. Roger Scruton's most recent books are A Political Philosophy (Continuum Books, 2006), a thoughtful response to the development and decline of western civilization, The West and the Rest (ISI Books, 2001), an analysis of the values held by the ‘West' and how they are distinct from those held by other cultures and Culture Counts: Faith and Healing in a World Beseiged (Encounter Books 2007).
In the same vein as Scruton's The West and the Rest, this lecture will offer a consideration of the philosophical and political differences between the West and Islamic civilization, both historically and in the present time. Without taking a "blame the West" approach, he will suggest that some of our habits, beliefs, and prejudices need to be reexamined in order to offer a coherent alternative to the threats we face.
To reserve a seat or for more information, please e-mail events@eppc.org or call 202.715.3515.
From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."