THE ROBERT J. GIUFFRA ’82 CONFERENCE ON

LAW AND THE CULTURE OF LIBERTY

Cosponsored by

The Association for the Study of Free Institutions, Texas Tech University

The Bouton Law Lecture Fund

May 18-19, 2015Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

July 4th, 2015 marks the 15th Anniversary of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions

at Princeton University.

THE ROBERT J. GIUFFRA ’82 CONFERENCE ON LAW AND THE CULTURE

OF LIBERTY

What is the relationship among law, culture, and human freedom? Is freedom to be found primarily where law is kept to a minimum and culture is therefore mostly the spontaneous reflection of the choices of

largely autonomous individuals? Or does true freedom require law to provide a kind of moral discipline, a habituation in the virtues, with a view to promoting a culture in which freedom is directed toward the flourishing of our nature, and not just toward whatever may appear desirable to the individual? To what extent can law shape culture in this way, and to what extent is it rather shaped by a culture that already exists?

In order to foster reflection on these issues, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and the Association for the Study of Free Institutions are pleased to announce a conference entitled “Law and the Culture of Liberty.” The program includes scholars from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. We seek to address a number of questions. What is the proper relationship between law and liberty in the natural-law jurisprudence of John Finnis and his colleagues? To what extent does our flourishing according to nature require freedom from legal constraint, and to what extent does it require the discipline of legal sanctions? How does contemporary American popular culture shape our understanding of law and liberty? Is pop culture a powerful force for freedom, or does it undermine the virtues of character and mind necessary for the preservation of the free society? What is the role of marriage in fostering a culture of liberty? To what extent does a healthy marriage culture require the support of law? What is the role of freedom of thought and speech in maintaining a free and decent culture? Should law permit an untrammeled right of self-expression, or must it rather set limits on what may be said in order to protect civility and other important social values? Most fundamentally, can we attain rational knowledge of the true character of law, of culture, and of liberty, and of their proper relation to one another?

The James Madison Program would like to thank Robert J. Giuffra ’82 and the Earhart Foundation for their generous support of this conference.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Monday, May 18, 2015

10:30 a.m. – Noon Presentation of the 2015 James Q. Wilson Award for Distinguished Scholarship on the Nature of a Free Society to John Finnis, on behalf of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions

Keynote Address by John Finnis, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame; Professor Emeritus of Law and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford

1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Natural Law, Law, and Liberty Gerard V. Bradley, Professor of Law, University of Notre

Dame Samuel Gregg, Director of Research, Acton Institute Daniel Mark, Assistant Professor of Political Science,

Villanova University Chair: James R. Stoner, Jr., Professor of Political Science,

Louisiana State University

3:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Popular Culture and the Culture of Liberty Mark Bauerlein, Professor of English, Emory University Martha Bayles, Visiting Associate Professor of the Practice

of the Humanities, Boston College Charles T. Rubin, Garwood Visiting Fellow, James

Madison Program, Princeton University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Duquesne University

Chair: Carson Holloway, Visiting Fellow in American Political Thought, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, The Heritage Foundation; Associate Professor

of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Marriage and the Culture of Liberty Ryan T. Anderson, William E. Simon Fellow in Religion

and a Free Society, The Heritage Foundation Melissa Moschella, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America W. Bradford Wilcox, Associate Professor of Sociology,

University of Virginia Chair: Christopher Kaczor, William E. Simon Visiting

Fellow, James Madison Program, Princeton University; Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University

11:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Freedom of Thought and Speech

James W. Ceaser, Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics, University of Virginia

Michael P. Moreland, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law

Christopher Tollefsen, Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina

Chair: Jesse D. Covington, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program, Princeton University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Westmont College

2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Roundtable on Law, Liberty, and Culture in the Thought of John Finnis

Joseph M. Boyle, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Richard Ekins, Associate Professor of Law, University of Oxford Sherif Girgis, Princeton University and Yale Law School Grégoire C. N. Webber, Canada Research Chair in Public

Law and Philosophy of Law, Queen’s University (Canada) John Finnis, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, University

of Notre Dame; Professor Emeritus of Law and Legal Philosophy University of Oxford

Chair: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program,

Princeton University

About the James Madison Program

Founded in the summer of 2000, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University is dedicated to exploring enduring questions of American constitutional law and Western political thought. The Program is also devoted to examining the application of basic legal and ethical principles to contemporary problems. To realize its mission, the James Madison Program implements a number of initiatives. The Program awards visiting fellowships and postdoctoral appointments each year to support scholars conducting research in the fields of constitutional law and political thought. The Program supports the James Madison Society, an international community of scholars, and promotes civic education by its sponsorship of conferences, lectures, seminars, and colloquia. The Program’s Undergraduate Fellows Forum provides opportunities for Princeton undergraduates to interact with Madison Program Fellows and speakers. The success of the James Madison Program depends on the support of foundations and private individuals who share its commitment in advancing the understanding and appreciation of American ideals and institutions.

About the Association for the Study of Free Institutions

The Association for the Study of Free Institutions is a scholarly organization seeking to promote multi-disciplinary inquiry into the free society – its philosophic, cultural, and institutional conditions, its character, its strengths and limitations, and the challenges it faces. ASFI works to unite scholars from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities – political science, history, law, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, theology, classics, education – in order to revive the study of freedom as a major concern of American higher education. Mindful that the questions to which freedom gives rise are often controversial, that freedom carries certain costs, and that we have things to learn even from its most determined critics, ASFI welcomes intellectual diversity. It seeks the participation of scholars representing not only a variety of intellectual disciplines, but also a diversity of moral and philosophical positions. Ultimately, ASFI aims to revitalize higher education and our public discourse by encouraging scholarship and teaching that will contribute to the preservation and improvement of our free civilization.

PARTICIPANTS

Ryan T. Anderson ’04 is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and the founder and editor of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the co-author, with Princeton’s Robert P. George and Sherif Girgis, of the book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense. Justice Samuel Alito cited this book twice in his dissenting opinion on the federal Defense of Marriage Act case. He has made appearances on Piers Morgan Live, CNN Newsroom, FOX News and MSNBC. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, First Things, the Weekly Standard, National Review, the Claremont Review of Books, the New Atlantis, Touchstone, Books and Culture, Christianity Today, The City and the Human Life Review. He received his B.A. from Princeton University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, and he received his Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was titled: “Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights.”

Mark Bauerlein is Professor of English at Emory University and Senior Editor at First Things Magazine. He is the founder of the Program in Democracy and Citizenship at Emory. From 2003-05 he served as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the 2010-11 Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. His books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997), The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief (1997), and The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008). His commentaries and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, Yale Review, Partisan Review, Wilson Quarterly, and many other national periodicals. He received his Ph.D. in English from UCLA.

Martha Bayles is Visiting Associate Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at the Boston College Arts & Sciences Honor Program. Between 1997 and 2003 she was professor of humanities at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Prior to that, she taught public school in Philadelphia, Boston, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Institute in Los Angeles, a Fulbright Lecturer in Poland, and arts correspondent for the PBS program, “Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.” She writes and lectures frequently

about the arts, music, media, and public diplomacy. Her latest book, Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad (Yale, 2014) was described by the Weekly Standard as “a brilliant and courageous meditation on the difficulty of communication between modern and traditional societies”; and by American Diplomacy as “the freshest and most original treatment of U.S. Public Diplomacy in many years.” Her television column for the Wall Street Journal first established her as a significant critical voice. Her book, Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music (Free Press, 1994) was praised by jazz legend Sonny Rollins as “an illuminating look at where American culture is today, and how it got there.” Former literary editor of the Wilson Quarterly, she has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsweek, and many other publications. Today she writes regularly for the Boston Globe and the Weekly Standard. And since 2006 she has written the “Shadow Play” column on film and television for the Claremont Review of Books. She is a graduate of Harvard University.

Joseph M. Boyle is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The University of Toronto (retired in 2013), Retired Fellow and Principal Emeritus (1991-2002) at St. Michael’s College, and a Member of the University’s Joint Centre for Bioethics. He was a college teacher in residence at Brown University from 1975-76, where he worked with Professor Roderick Chisholm. He was a Visiting Fellow in 2010-11 in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He does research in the area of moral philosophy, particularly in the Roman Catholic moral tradition. He has collaborated with Germain Grisez and John Finnis in developing and applying a distinctive version of natural law theory. His focus in this current work is on just war theory, end of life issues, and the double effect rule. He received his B.A. from LaSalle University in Philadelphia (1965) and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University (1970). Germain Grisez was his supervisor.

Gerard V. Bradley is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches Legal Ethics and Constitutional Law. At Notre Dame he directs (with John Finnis) the Natural Law Institute and co-edits The American Journal of Jurisprudence, an international forum for legal philosophy. Bradley has been a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and is a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 2008-09 Visiting Research Scolar in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He also served for many years as President of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. Early in his career, after serving in the Trial Division of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, he joined the law faculty at the University of Illinois. He moved to Notre

Dame in 1992. Bradley has published over one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. His most recent books are an edited collection of essays titled, Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century (2012); Essays on Law, Religion, and Morality (2014); and Unquiet Americans: U.S. Catholics and the Common Good (2015). He is currently working on a book about regulating obscenity in the Internet Age. Bradley received his B.A and J.D. degrees from Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude from the law school in 1980.

James W. Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1976, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has held visiting professorships at Princeton University, the University of Florence, the University of Basel, Oxford University, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Rennes. He was a 2007-08 Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is the author of several books on American politics and political thought, including Presidential Selection, Liberal Democracy and Political Science, Reconstructing America, Nature and History in American Political Development, and Designing a Polity: America’s Constitution in Theory and Practice. He has also coauthored a series on American national elections since 1992. Professor Ceaser is a frequent contributor to the popular press, and he comments regularly on American Politics for La Voix de l’Amérique. He earned his B.A. from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Jesse D. Covington is 2014-15 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the James Madison Program at Princeton University and Associate Professor of Political Science at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA, where he teaches and writes in the fields of political theory and constitutional law. His research interests focus on the First Amendment, political theology, and the foundations of political liberalism. He recently co-edited Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought, to which he contributed a chapter on St. Augustine and natural law. As a visiting fellow with the James Madison Program, he is working on a manuscript provisionally titled Taken on Faith: The Concept of Religion in First Amendment Jurisprudence. He is also engaged in an ongoing collaborative project on evangelical political thought. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and an MAR in Religion at Westminster Theological Seminary.

Richard Ekins is a Tutorial Fellow in Law at St John’s College and Associate Professor in the University of Oxford. He has worked as a Judge’s Clerk at the High Court of New Zealand at Auckland, and a Lecturer at Balliol College. He was a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland before moving back to Oxford in 2012. He is the author of The Nature of Legislative Intent (2012) and editor of

Modern Challenges to the Rule of Law (2011). He received his BA, LLB (Hons) and BA (Hons) degrees from The University of Auckland, before going on to read for the BCL, MPhil and DPhil at Oxford.

John M. Finnis is Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus in the University of Oxford, where he was a Tutorial Fellow of University College and a teaching member of the Faculty of Law from 1966 to 2010. He was a member of the Sub-Faculty of Philosophy from 1987 to 2010. Since 1995 he has also been the Biolchini Family Professor of Law and adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Known for his work in moral, political and legal theory, as well as constitutional law, Professor Finnis teaches courses in Jurisprudence, in the Social, Political, and Legal Theory of Thomas Aquinas, and in the Social, Political and Legal Theory of Shakespeare. He has served as associate in law at the University of California at Berkeley (1965-66), as professor of law at the University of Malawi in Africa (1976-78), and as the Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the Boston College Law School (1993-94). He is admitted to the English Bar (Gray’s Inn). His service has included the Linacre Centre for Health Care Ethics (governor since 1981), the Catholic Bishops’ Joint Committee on Bioethical Issues (1981-88), the International Theological Commission (1986-92), the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (1990-95), and the Pontifical Academy Pro Vita. He has published widely in law, legal theory, moral and political philosophy, moral theology, and the history of the late Elizabethan era. His books include Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980, 2011), Fundamentals of Ethics (1983), Nuclear Deterrence, Morality & Realism, with Joseph Boyle and Germain Grisez (1987), Moral Absolutes (1991), Aquinas: Moral, Political & Legal Thought (1998), and five volumes of Collected Essays (2011). He earned his LL.B. from Adelaide University in 1961 and his doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1965.

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and is the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is vice chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). He has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He has also served on UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology, of which he continues to be a corresponding member. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. He is the author of In Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis, Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the

Dogmas of Liberal Secularism, and co-author of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics, What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, and Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters. His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and the Review of Politics. Professor George is a recipient of many honors and awards, including the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Sidney Hook Memorial Award of the National Association of Scholars, the Philip Merrill Award of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, and the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award from Princeton’s Department of Politics. He has given honorific lectures at Harvard, Yale, University of St. Andrews, and Cornell University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds honorary doctorates of law, ethics, science, letters, divinity, civil law, humane letters, and juridical science. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, he also received a master’s degree in theology from Harvard and a doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford University.

Sherif Girgis ’08 was born in Cairo and grew up in Delaware. He majored in philosophy at Princeton University, where he won several academic prizes, including the 2007 Dante Prize for the nation’s best undergraduate essay on Dante. His senior thesis on sex ethics won the Princeton prizes for best thesis in ethics and best thesis in philosophy. Upon graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 2008, he went on to earn a master’s degree in moral, political and legal philosophy at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is now a philosophy Ph.D. student at Princeton and a law student at Yale Law School, where he is an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Girgis has written on social issues in academic and popular venues, including Public Discourse, National Review, Commonweal, the New York Times, the Yale Law Journal, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the Wall Street Journal. He is coauthor of the book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, cited by Justice Alito in United States v. Windsor, on which he has spoken in more than 70 lectures, conferences, and debates.

Samuel Gregg is research director at the Acton Institute. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, ethics in finance, and natural law theory. He is the author of several books, including On Ordered Liberty (2003); The Commercial Society (2007); The Modern Papacy (2009); Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy (2010); and Becoming Europe (2013). He has co-edited books such as Natural Law, Economics and the Common

Good (2012). He has also written on the thought of Thomas More. He publishes in journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy; Journal of Markets & Morality; Moreana; Economic Affairs; First Things; Law and Investment Management; Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy; Ave Maria Law Review; Communio; and Journal of Scottish Philosophy. He writes opinion-pieces which appear in publications such as the Wall Street Journal Europe; Foreign Affairs; American Banker; Investor’s Business Daily; National Review; Public Discourse; American Spectator; and the Australian Financial Review. In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford.

Carson Holloway is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he has taught since 2002, and is Executive Director of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions. He is the author of The Way of Life: John Paul II and the Challenge of Liberal Modernity (Baylor University Press), The Right Darwin? Evolution, Religion, and the Future of Democracy (Spence Publishing), and All Shook Up: Music, Passion and Politics (Spence Publishing). His most recent book, Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He was a 2005-06 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life of the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is currently Visiting Fellow in American Political Thought in the Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics. He received a B.A. in political science from the University of Northern Iowa in 1991 and a Ph.D. in political science from Northern Illinois University in 1998.

Christopher Kaczor is 2014-15 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the James Madison Program at Princeton University, and Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of The Gospel of Happiness, The Seven Big Myths about Marriage, A Defense of Dignity, The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church, The Ethics of Abortion, Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues, and Proportionalism and the Natural Law Tradition. Professor Kaczor’s research on issues of ethics, philosophy, and religion has been in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, BBC, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, MSNBC, and the Today Show. An undergraduate at Boston College, he earned a Ph.D. four years later from the University of Notre Dame. He then did postdoctoral work in Germany as von Humbolt Federal Chancellor Fellow and returned to Germany as a Fulbright Scholar.

Daniel Mark ’03 *13 is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. Appointed by Speaker John Boehner, he also serves on the nine-member bipartisan United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. He will spend the 2015-16 academic year as Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is associate editor of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, and a fellow of the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. At Villanova, he is a faculty associate of the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good, and he holds the rank of Battalion Professor in the university’s Navy ROTC unit. He works with the Hertog Foundation in Washington, DC and The Tikvah Fund in New York, and he has taught at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. He holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where he wrote his dissertation under Professor Robert P. George.

Michael P. Moreland is Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law. His scholarly interests focus on law and religion, torts, and bioethics. Following law school, Dean Moreland clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was an associate at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Villanova faculty, he served as Associate Director for Domestic Policy at the White House under President George W. Bush. He was the 2010-11 Forbes Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, his M.A. and Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College, and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Melissa Moschella *12 is the 2014-2015 Myser Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, where her teaching and research focus on natural law, bioethics, and the moral and political status of the family. She was a 2012-13 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. Her book manuscript, currently under review, is tentatively titled: To Whom Do Children Belong? Parental Rights, Civic Education, and Children’s Autonomy. Among her recent and forthcoming academic publications are articles on parental rights in education, the ethics of reproductive technologies, sexual ethics, religious freedom, and brain death. Her work has also appeared in popular media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, and National Review. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received her Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Princeton University.

Charles T. Rubin is the 2014-15 Garwood Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University, and Associate Professor of Political Science in the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University. Prior to teaching at Duquesne, he taught at Kenyon College. His book The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism (1994) is a critical look at key figures of the environmental movement, including Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, and Paul Ehrlich. In 2000 he published an edited collection of essays titled Conservation Reconsidered: Nature, Virtue and American Liberal Democracy, containing fresh looks at key figures in the conservation movement and those who influenced them. Since then he has published essays on a variety of topics at the intersection of science, public policy and political philosophy, e.g., the problem of global climate change, the difficulty of applying the precautionary principle to measures dealing with Earth/asteroid collisions, and conceptual flaws in the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He has also written about literary figures ranging from Henry Adams and Flannery O’Connor to Neal Stephenson and Karl Cepak. His latest book, Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress (2014), is a critical look at advocates of redesigning human beings. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Case-Western Reserve University, and his Ph.D. from Boston College.

James R. Stoner, Jr., is Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. In 2013-14 he was Garwood Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He served on the National Council on the Humanities in 2002-2006, chaired his department at LSU in 2007-2013, and served as acting dean of the LSU Honors College in Fall 2010. He is the author of Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 2003) and Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 1992), as well as a number of articles and essays. A Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, he has co-edited two books the Institute published, The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of Papers (with Donna M. Hughes, 2010), and Rethinking Business Management: Examining the Foundations of Business Education (with Samuel Gregg, 2007). He earned a B.A. from Middlebury College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.

Christopher Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He has twice been a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of six books, including most recently Lying and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is

a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and Christian Bioethics, and is the editor of the Springer book series, Catholic Studies in Bioethics. He earned a B.A. from Saint Anselm College and a Ph.D. from Emory University.

Grégoire C. N. Webber is Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen’s University (Canada) and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics, where he was an Associate Professor until 2014. He researches in the areas of public law, constitutional theory, and jurisprudence. He clerked for Justice André Rochon of the Quebec Court of Appeal and Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada. Prior to joining the academy, he was senior policy adviser with the Privy Council Office (the civil service department supporting the Prime Minister of Canada). He is the author of The Negotiable Constitution: On the Limitation of Rights (Cambridge, 2009) and joint editor of Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Justification, Reasoning (Cambridge, 2014). He is a graduate of McGill University with bachelors of civil law and common law, and of the University of Oxford with a doctorate in law.

W. Bradford Wilcox ’92 is Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. He has held research fellowships at Princeton University, Yale University, and the Brookings Institution. The coauthor of Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives (Columbia, 2013, with Kathleen Kovner Kline), Professor Wilcox’s research has focused on marriage, fatherhood, and cohabitation. Currently he is exploring the contribution that families make to the economic welfare of individuals and societies. He also is the author of Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands (Chicago, 2004), and coauthor of Whither the Child?: Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility (Paradigm, 2013, with Eric Kaufmann). As an undergraduate, Wilcox was a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia (’92) and later earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

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