Events: 2018

Bringing an end to a tumultuous year in politics, the midterm elections have been fascinating, consequential, and sometimes downright weird. John Hood, syndicated columnist and chairman of the John Locke…

There will be no Shaftesbury Society meeting on Monday, November 5th. Alternatively, we will have our Jefferson-Adams Living History Debate that evening at the NC Museum of Sciences at 6:30pm.

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Shane Harris will explain how and why cyberspace has become the most important battlefield for the United States and how the Trump administration is responding to new and expanding national…

Duke Professor Edward Balleisen will discuss his recent book, “Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff,” which traces the evolution of American institutions dedicated to curbing deception in the…

Nadine Strossen, Professor of Constitutional Law at New York Law School and the first woman national President of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she served from 1991 through 2008,…

Founding Father and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is said to have imposed a tax on whiskey “before the ink on the U.S. Constitution was dry”. Motivated as much by a…

Are electric vehicles good for the environment?  In this presentation, Professor Yates will compare the air pollution effects of driving an electric vehicle to a conventional vehicle and evaluate the…

Professor Jacobs’ presentation will include data that shows why the only two growing counties in North Carolina that lost minority population in the last decade, Orange and Buncombe (Asheville), are…

North Carolina surgeon, Dr. Gajendra Singh, opened an imaging center to provide safe, affordable imaging services to patients at transparent prices. He is allowed to have an X-ray machine, ultrasound…