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    You Can Say That: Preserving Free Speech From Political Correctness

    Featuring David French: Senior Writer, National Review; Senior Fellow, National Review Institute
    on December 11, 2018
    At a time of unprecedented legal freedom, individual Americans feel less free to speak than any time in recent history. Online shame campaigns, economic boycotts, firings, and even physical threats…
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    The Market For Neighborhoods

    Featuring Salim Furth: Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center
    on December 10, 2018
    Salim will present an understanding of housing markets and land use regulation grounded in institutional economics. Instead of viewing housing as an interchangeable commodity, Mercatus Center research emphasizes the overlapping institutions…
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    James Wilson and the Moral Psychology of American Constitutionalism

    Featuring Dr. Jim Zink: Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, North Carolina State University
    on December 3, 2018
    In this presentation, Dr. Zink will use James Wilson’s institutional science of politics as a lens for examining his broader understanding of American constitutionalism. Wilson accepted the Madisonian view that…
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    Will Brett Kavanaugh Destroy The Constitution?

    Featuring Greg Wallace: Professor, Campbell University School of Law
    on November 26, 2018
    Critics of President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court have expressed varying degrees of concern about Kavanaugh’s views and impact on the high court. Sen.
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    What Just Happened? A Look at the 2018 Midterms

    Featuring John Hood: President, John William Pope Foundation
    on November 12, 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…
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    NO SHAFTESBURY SOCIETY MEETING

    on November 5, 2018
    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.