“American Faith: Going Strong, Going Down, or Going to the Mall?”

Virginia Club of New York Hosts Institute Faculty Fellow Charles Mathewes

When: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | 6:30 p.m.

Where: Virginia Club of New York at The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, NYC

Join University of Virginia Associate Professor of Religious Studies Charles Mathewes for dinner and discussion. There is limited seating. Please contact Ashley Berner to make a reservation ($35 suggested donation) and for further details.

On Thursday, October 2, 2008 Jean Bethke Elshtain, of the University of Chicago, presented a lecture, “The Myth of the Sovereign Self,” to a packed house at the Institute’s Watson Manor. The lecture was based on Professor Elshtain’s 2006 Gifford Lectures, “Sovereign God, Sovereign State, Sovereign Self,” which are published by Basic Books under the title Sovereignty: God, State, and Self.

Listen to lectures by Samuel Huntington, Lionel Jospin, and Robert Kaplan from the Institute’s Labrosse-Levinson Lectures on “America in the World,” newly posted at the Institute’s Media Archive. Would you rather read their essays? They’re available free online in The Hedgehog Review’s “America in the World” issue.

Renewal season is well underway at the Institute’s journal, The Hedgehog Review. Our 2009 season will address timely cultural issues through lively essays, interviews, and reviews. Our 2009 topics are: Youth Culture, The Moral Life of Corporations, and Cosmopolitanism. Renew your subscription today, sign up for a new subscription, or give a subscription to a friend!
 

The Hedgehog Review (Order here)

“What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen?” That’s what The Hedgehog Review seeks to answer in its latest issue, Fall 2008. With the election over and the President-elect’s call to citizen participation, the topic could hardly be more timely.

Read the introduction, purchase the issue for yourself, and then, send a copy to a friend!

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Culture (Order here)

In the Fall 2008 issue of Culture, Institute fellow Amy Gilbert proposes the virtue of practical wisdom, or prudence, as the solution to evils caused by thoughtlessness. As she writes, “it allows us to sound out the depths of our situations and imaginatively connect to the effects of our actions on others.” Read “Vigilance and Virtue: In Search of Practical Wisdom.”