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| American Culture and Democracy |
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| Fall 2004 Lecture Series |
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The Ethics and Public Policy Center is pleased to announce its Fall 2004 lecture series, which brings together major public voices to discuss subjects related to the theme "American Culture and Democracy."
The inaugural lecture was delivered on September 20 by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, on the subject of "The Courts and Democracy." Subsequent lectures have dealt with such timely subjects as terrorism, and marriage. (Visit the lecture pages below to download audio recordings of each talk.)
The next lecture relates to bioethics, and the final lecture -- shortly before Election Day -- relates to the presidency.
The complete list of lecture titles, dates, and participants appears below. These events are all free, but space is limited, so please be sure to register early.
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| Past Conferences |
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| American Culture and the Presidency |
| George W. Bush's Evangelical Conservatism: Or, How the Republicans Became Red |
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
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| President Bush's remarkable second inaugural address seems to mark a point of departure for American conservatism's next generation. But how great a departure? What are its chief intellectual |
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| The Bioethics Debate and the American Character |
| A Lecture by Eric Cohen, with comments from Leon Kass |
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
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| Embryonic stem cells and human cloning have emerged as defining issues in American public life. But why? Is there a divide between religion and science? Are opponents of embryo research "rational"? |
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| The War Against Terrorism |
| Remarks by George Weigel and Bill Kristol |
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
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| EPPC Senior Fellow George Weigel lectured on the war against terrorism and America's place in the world. His lecture was followed by comments from William Kristol, editor of The Weekly |
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| The Question of Marriage |
| A Lecture by Hadley Arkes |
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Friday, October 8, 2004
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| EPPC's Fall lecture series continued this week with a lecture by Hadley Arkes on "The Question of Marriage." Dr. Arkes, an EPPC Senior Fellow and a leading expert on American political |
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| The Unresolvable Conflict: Religion, Politics, and Morality |
| Fr. Richard John Neuhaus speaks at EPPC |
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Monday, September 27, 2004
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| Father Richard John Neuhaus -- a respected Catholic theologian, a member of EPPC's Board of Directors, and the editor of First Things -- spoke at EPPC on the intersection of |
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| Justice Antonin Scalia Launches EPPC Lecture Series |
| Supreme Court Justice speaks on "The Courts and Democracy" |
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Monday, September 20, 2004
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| What is the appropriate role of the federal judiciary in our republic? What would the Framers of the Constitution think of today's activist judges? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia helped launch |
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| Technology and Society |
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The Age of Neuroelectronics
For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics.
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.
Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:
 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."
From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog: "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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