
Multi-Day Seminars
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In March 2015, we launched our multi-day seminar program, allowing students the opportunity to have intensive and fruitful academic engagement with topics and thinkers neglected in their Yale classrooms. Held over three days during winter, spring, summer, and fall breaks, topics and professors have included:
Past Topics
- Lincoln and the Crisis of American Democracy with Peter Ahrensdorf
- Free Market Fairness with John Tomasi
- Aristotle on The Good Life with Robert Bartlett
- The Federalist Papers and the American Founding with Charles Kesler
- Tocqueville's Democracy in America with Patrick Deneen

Upcoming Seminars
The Pros and Cons of Classical Liberalism in Hume’s Essays
March 22, 2023, 10:00 am – March 24, 2023, 3:30 pm
Today classical liberalism is under attack—from the left on the grounds that it is inattentive to historical injustices, from the “national conservative” right on the grounds that it is hostile to the common good. In this seminar, led by American University Professor Thomas W. Merrill, we will think about the viability of classical liberalism by considering one of its founding thinkers.

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