Events Archive

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...

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

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.

Conservatives and Liberals in the Academy: Two Upcoming Events at CU this Week This week the Center of Western Civilization, Thought, and Policy (CWCTP) is hosting two events. The first is a talk by George Yancey, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. He will be speaking on “Conservatives in Academia: Is There Bias Against Them?”. The next day CWCTP will be hosting a panel discussion, “Why Are College Professors Liberal?” Moderated by CWCTP director, Robert Pasnau, the panel will feature Professor Yancey, Joshua Dunn (Professor and Chair of Political Science, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) and David S. Brown (Professor and Chair of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder).

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy invites you to a speaking engagement of the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy: Taking Rites Seriously: Liberalism, Religion, and Cultural Conflict with Francis Beckwith Friday, 9/2/2016 12:00:00 PM-1:00:00 PM Hellums 269 University of Colorado Boulder