Events Archive

Greetings, It is with sadness we announce the cancellation of the Meghan McCain town hall on November 14th. Ms. McCain is unable to be with us due to new contractual obligations with Fox News. While we are disappointed, we wish her the best in her new position. We hope to schedule another speaker in early 2017. We encourage all interested parties to consider attending our upcoming lecture with Prof. Robert Kaufman "Obama's Dangerous Doctrine" on 11/10/2016. For more information, please see: https://www.colorado.edu/cwctp/2016/11/10/obamas-dangerous-doctrine-1110...

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy presents: "Obama's Dangerous Doctrine" with 2017-8 Candidate for the position of Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at CU Boulder, Prof. Robert Kaufman (Pepperdine) Thursday, 11/10/2016 5:30:00 PM-7:00:00 PM University Memorial Center, Glenn Miller Ballroom West University of Colorado Boulder Free and open to the public Featuring: Robert Kaufman, Pepperdine University

As the most contentious presidential campaign in recent memory approaches its climax, CU Visiting Scholar, Dr. Francis Beckwith, will discuss how the unique Catholic view of complementarity between faith and reason can help us to better communicate and understand issues of deep moral, political, and societal disagreement.

With the election in just a few weeks, the very future of conservatism is a hot topic of discussion. Join us to hear Dr. Francis Beckwith, the newest Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado for the 2016-17 academic year. This event will be held at Colorado Christian University.

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy is proud to co-sponsor: Selling Imaginary Russia Thursday, 11/10/2016 5:00:00 PM-6:30:00 PM Eaton Humanities 190 University of Colorado Boulder A symposium on contemporary Russia. Free and open to the public. Featuring: Yelena Minyonok, Institute of World Literature, Moscow Sponsored by: Center for...

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy is proud to co-sponsor: Mystical Materialism Tuesday, 10/18/2016 6:00:00 PM-8:00:00 PM Eaton Humanities 270 University of Colorado Boulder The set of ideas and approaches gathered under the heading “new materialism” is highly varied. Among the constants, however, is a firm rejection of...

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy is proud to co-sponsor: John Birch, China and the Cold War Thursday, 10/13/2016 5:00:00 PM-6:30:00 PM Eaton Humanities 250 University of Colorado Boulder

Thursday, October 13, 2016 Eaton Humanities 350 3:00PM Marcion was one of the most significant "heretics" of the second century C.E. as evidenced both by the number of church fathers that wrote against him and the amount that they wrote against him. Though there is widespread agreement that a fundamental...

Gathering signs of dysfunction in the spheres of electoral politics, governance, the economy, education, civil society, and the environment suggest that the crisis faced by the modern West is systemic, not merely a set of discrete and separately solvable problems. After roughly 250 years, it appears the philosophic errors of liberalism are now being manifested in our life world. Are we facing the end of liberalism, and if so, what's next?

Thomas Frank is a journalist whose articles have appeared in the Financial Times, Harper’s Magazine, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Salon, The American Prospect, The Guardian, The Nation, and Wall Street Journal. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas? His most recent book, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People, was published in March 2016.