Events Archive

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…

To commemorate Labor Day, Shaftesbury Society will not meet Monday, Sept. 3. We will return on Monday, Sept. 10.  …

Shaftesbury Society is taking a summer vacation. We will not meet in August, or on Labor Day. Shaftesbury Society will return Monday, September 10. …

Most of us would say that we may not be saints, but we are still honest, kind, and mostly trustworthy. However, hundreds of recent studies in psychology suggest that character…