Taking Rites Seriously Book by Francis Beckwith

Taking Rites Seriously: Liberalism, Religion, and Cultural Conflict (9/2/2016)

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 ÐßÐßÊÓƵ

Affirmative Action and Higher Education

Affirmative Action and Higher Education (8/10/16)

The "Western Civ Dialogue" series presents: Affirmative Action and Higher Education Wednesday, August 10, 2016 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eaton Humanities 150 ÐßÐßÊÓƵ Free and open to the public. For decades now, college campuses have been under scrutiny for the way in which race and various...

CU in Grand Junction

Domitrovic speaks in Grand Junction (4/14/16)

CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ scholar in conservative thought lectures on U.S. economic growth in Grand Junction America’s relatively slow economic growth can be accelerated, as it has been in the past, according to Brian Domitrovic, visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ. Domitrovic is scheduled to give...

The Moral Limits of Free Markets

The Moral Limits of Free Markets (4/4/16)

The "Western Civ Dialogue" series presents: The Moral Limits of Free Markets Monday, April 4, 2016 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. British and Irish Studies Room Norlin Library – 5th Floor ÐßÐßÊÓƵ Free and open to the public. If you may do it for free, may you...

Ilya Shapiro

Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute, discusses Supreme Court (3/30/16)

The Conservative Thought and Policy Program speaker series presents: Brave New World: The Supreme Court after Scalia Featuring Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute Wed., March 30 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ECCR Engineering Center Room 1B40 ÐßÐßÊÓƵ This event is free and open to the public. Ilya Shapiro...

Climate Change after Paris

Climate Change after Paris (2/22/16)

The "Western Civ Dialogue" series presents: Climate Change after Paris Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 7 p.m. Eaton Humanities Room 150 ÐßÐßÊÓƵ Free and open to the public. For 21 years, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been seeking to forge a global agreement to...

Brian Domitrovic

Supply-Side Economics: The Challenge of Overcoming Slow-Growth in this Millennium (2/17/16)

The Conservative Thought and Policy Program speaker series presents: Supply-Side Economics: The Challenge of Overcoming Slow-Growth in this Millennium Featuring Brian Domitrovic, CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought & Policy Wed., Feb. 17, 2016 7:00 p.m. Benson Earth Sciences Room 180 ÐßÐßÊÓƵ This event is free and...

Lily Williams

My Journey for Freedom: From Mao's Young Pioneer to Libertarian (2/18/16)

The Conservative Thought and Policy Program speaker series presents: My Journey for Freedom: From Mao's Young Pioneer to Libertarian Featuring Lily Williams, Libertarian Candidate for U.S. Senate Thurs., Feb. 18, 2016 7:00 p.m. Hale 270 ÐßÐßÊÓƵ This event is free and open to the public. (NOTE: This...

Brian Domitrovic

The lasting applicability of supply-side economics

This coming week, on Wed. Feb. 17 and then on Thurs. the 18th, the Conservative Thought and Policy lecture series presents two events. On the 17th, I myself shall give a public lecture, on the acute and ever-growing need for absorbing the historical lessons of supply-side economics, that of the...

Arthur Laffer

Economist Arthur B. Laffer

The Laffer curve--a bell curve looking like a "McDonald's arch on its side," as the great Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley described it--remains the most recognizable economics graph of the last fifty years. Economists and non-economists alike know or have heard of it: at some point, tax rates...

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