Join the Buckley Institute on Thursday, September 12, 2024, for our third annual Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize reception recognizing
this year's Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize winner, Dr. Gregory Collins. The reception will open at 4:30pm at the Elm City Club (155 Elm St, New Haven, CT) with a lecture by Collins, to be followed by a reception.
Collins' lecture will discuss the responsibility of the classroom instructor to expand the terms of intellectual debate, present competing perspectives in their best possible light, and use the Western canon as a fallible yet indispensable guide in the pursuit of truth.
Read the full 2024
faculty prize announcement here.
Gregory M. Collins is a Lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics and Department of Political Science at Yale University. His first book, Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy, examined Edmund Burke’s understanding of the connection between markets and morals. Greg has also published articles on Adam Smith, F.A. Hayek, Frederick Douglass, Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Britain’s East India Company. His additional writings and book reviews can be found in Modern Age, Law & Liberty, National Affairs, National Review, and University Bookman. Greg’s two current projects are a book manuscript exploring the idea of civil society in early black political thought and an anthology on the intellectual origins of liberalism and conservatism. He was the 2020 winner of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award. Greg lives with his wife and two daughters in central Connecticut and enjoys rooting for Boston professional sports teams and beating his students at pickup basketball.
