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The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy is proud to co-sponsor: Selling Imaginary Russia Thursday, 11/10/2016 5:00:00 PM-6:30:00 PM Eaton Humanities 190 University of Colorado Boulder A symposium on contemporary Russia. Free and open to the public. Featuring: Yelena Minyonok, Institute of World Literature, Moscow Sponsored by: Center for...

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy is proud to co-sponsor: Mystical Materialism Tuesday, 10/18/2016 6:00:00 PM-8:00:00 PM Eaton Humanities 270 University of Colorado Boulder The set of ideas and approaches gathered under the heading “new materialism” is highly varied. Among the constants, however, is a firm rejection of...

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy is proud to co-sponsor: John Birch, China and the Cold War Thursday, 10/13/2016 5:00:00 PM-6:30:00 PM Eaton Humanities 250 University of Colorado Boulder

Thursday, October 13, 2016 Eaton Humanities 350 3:00PM Marcion was one of the most significant "heretics" of the second century C.E. as evidenced both by the number of church fathers that wrote against him and the amount that they wrote against him. Though there is widespread agreement that a fundamental...

Gathering signs of dysfunction in the spheres of electoral politics, governance, the economy, education, civil society, and the environment suggest that the crisis faced by the modern West is systemic, not merely a set of discrete and separately solvable problems. After roughly 250 years, it appears the philosophic errors of liberalism are now being manifested in our life world. Are we facing the end of liberalism, and if so, what's next?

Thomas Frank is a journalist whose articles have appeared in the Financial Times, Harper’s Magazine, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Salon, The American Prospect, The Guardian, The Nation, and Wall Street Journal. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas? His most recent book, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People, was published in March 2016.

Please join the Center for Western Civilization, Thought & Policy, and the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures for a public lecture given by Andrew Kahn (Oxford University).

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy is proud to co-sponsor: Islamic Philosophy: A Death Greatly Exaggerated? The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy is proud to co-sponsor: Islamic Philosophy: A Death Greatly Exaggerated? Friday, 9/30/2016 3:00:00 PM-5:00:00 PM UCB 386 University of Colorado Boulder Free and open to the public

Why are college professors liberal? Popular belief has it that college campuses are islands of liberalism, with hardly a conservative to be found among the ranks of the faculty. Leading experts on the subject will consider the extent to which this popular belief is true, and what the implications are for the students who attend these colleges.

A discussion of the evidence of whether individuals from certain political and religious groups face academic bias. Dr. George Yancey will outline the results of his research and the research of others to show the evidence of this bias. Quantitative research will be used to illustrate the strength of the bias and qualitative work will be used to document some of the rationalizations of scholars who engage in academic bias.