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Spring 2023

• "Industrial Conservation and the Energy Transition" with Emmet Penney, March 16th, 2023. 
• "Interest Groups, Police Unions, and American Local Democracy" with Daniel Disalvo, February 16th, 2023.
• "The Rule of Law and Western Civilization: Origins, Influence, Impact" with Todd Zywicki, February 9th, 2023.
• "Reducing polarization and fighting extremism in Colorado" with Bernie Buescher, Laureen Boll, Martín Carcasson, and Leah Sprain, and Matthew Burgess, February 2nd, 2023.
• "Moral Grandstanding: Why Status-Seeking Destroys Public Discourse and What We Can Do About It" with Brandon Warmke, January 24th, 2023.

Fall 2022

• "Richard Avramenko: Tocqueville, Law, and the High Priests of Democracy" with Richard Avramenko, October 19, 2022.
• "The Justice Argument Against Catholic Integralism" with Kevin Vallier, October 6, 2022.
• "Abominations: Why hasn't Lionel Shriver been cancelled already?" with Lionel Shriver and Benjamin Teitelbaum, August 31, 2022.

Spring 2022

• "Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism" with Alan S. Kahan, April 27, 2022.
• "Conformity in the Cathedral: Causes and Consequences of Groupthink in American Univserities" with Jonathan Anomaly and Daniel Jacobson, April 11, 2022.
• "Vilfredo Pareto, the Moralist" with Alberto Mingardi and Alan S. Kahan, April 7, 2022.
• "Benjamin Constant and Alexis de Tocqueville" with Gianna Englert and Alan S. Kahan, March 8, 2022.
• Steamboat Institute Campus Liberty Tour: "Should America Rapidly Eliminate Fossil Fuel Use to Prevent Climate Catastrophy?" with Alex Epstein, General Wesley K. Clark (RET), and Amber Athey, March 2, 2022.
• "Identity Politics and Color-Blind Principles" with Andre Archie and Daniel Jacobson, February 9, 2022.

Fall 2021

• "The Banker Who Brought Down the Old Regime: The Political Economy of Jacques Necker (1732-1804)" with Helena Rosenblatt and Alan S. Kahan, November 30, 2021.
• "Baker v. Carr and the Power to Vote" with Bradley Smith and Daniel Jacobson, November 16, 2021.
• "Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right . . . – The challenge of addressing ‘Live Rail’ moral questions in an age of political tribalism" with James Mumford and David McPherson, November 15, 2021.
• "How the Internet Made Freedom into Unfreedom" with Lisa Nelson, November 11, 2021.
• “Ethics and Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Philanthropy” with Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan, November 5, 2021.
• "Defending Economic Liberalism Against Populist Assault" with Michael Strain and Taylor Jaworski, October 18, 2021.
• "'Capitalism' Exhibits the Seven Primary Virtues" with Deirdre McCloskey and Alan S. Kahan, October 5, 2021.
• "What Should We Do About Slow Growth" with Matthew Burgess, Taylor Jaworski, and Shilo Brooks, September 21, 2021.

Spring 2021

• "Liberty and Justice for All: A Conversation on Social Justice and Identity Politics" with Jason Riley, Donna Brazile, and Patrice Onwuka, April 26, 2021.
• "The Disciplinary Corporation" with Kevin Williamson, April 19, 2021.
• "From the Culture of Repudiation to the Cancel Culture: How Self-Loathing Gave Way to the Specter of Intellectual Tyranny" with Daniel J. Mahoney, April 13, 2021.
• "Hitler’s Willing Business Partners and the Search for Post-Holocaust Justice in the United States" with Michael Bazyler, April 6, 2021.
• "The Challenge Posed to American Pluralism by Non-Pluralistic Ideologies" with Robert R. Reilly, March 16, 2021.
• "The Church, the State, and the Emergence of Religious Freedom" with Noel Johnson, March 11, 2021.
• "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Behind the Musical" with Markas Henry, Elizabeth Eastman, Taylor Jaworski, and Shilo Brooks, March 3, 2021.
• "The Problem of Self-Censorship in American Public Discourse" with Glenn Loury, February 8, 2021.
• "At Home and Abroad: Forms of Community in American Foreign Relations" with Elizabeth Spalding, January 26, 2021.

Fall 2020

• "The Liberal Arts in an Illiberal Age" with Jon Peede, December 9, 2020.
• "Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion" with Alan S. Kahan, December 7, 2020.
• "From Shadows on the Wall to the Sun: Liberal Education and the Ascent from the Cave" with Elizabeth Eastman, November 17, 2020.
• "Cancellation and Its Discontents" with Joshua Katz, November 12, 2020.
• "The 1619 Project as Missed Opportunity" with Lucas Morel, October 27, 2020.
• "The United States as Independent Community: A Particular Rooted in the Universal" with John Eastman, October 6, 2020.
• "On the Classical Idea of Political Community, as Set Forth by Aristotle and Cicero" with Hayden W. Ausland, September 15, 2020.

Spring 2020

• "Down with Diversity" with William B. Allen, April 13, 2020.
• "National Leadership, Policy Choices and American Character" with Stephen Cambone, February 25, 2020.
• "A Supermajority for Democracy: How to Rebuild a Society of Free and Equal Citizens" with Danielle Allen, February 18, 2020.
• "American Politics: Is a Better Future Possible?" with Ruy Teixeira, February 3, 2020.
• "The Market for Victimhood" with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, January 27, 2020.

Fall 2019

• "Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" with Jason Brennan and Larry Temkin, November 14, 2019.
• "Born in the U.S.A.? Revisiting the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause" with John Eastman, November 11, 2019.
• "Antigone and Socrates: Model Citizens or Rebels?" with Elizabeth Eastman, November 5, 2019.
• "American Friendship" with Colleen Sheehan, October 28, 2019.
• "The Coddling of the American Mind" with Jonathan Haidt, October 15, 2019.
• "America's Problematic Meritocratic Elite" with Robert Merry, October 1, 2019.
• "Booker T. Washington and the Lessons of Lincoln" with Diana Schaub, September 19, 2019.
• "In Praise of a Forgotten Virtue: Moderation in the Twenty-First Century" with Aurelian Craiutu, September 18, 2019.
• "The Virtues of Democratic Citizenship, Ancient and Modern" with Ryan Balot, September 12, 2019.
• "Freedom of Speech and Harmful Speech: Lessons from Mill" with Daniel Jacobson, September 5, 2019.
• "Western Finance, Eastern Development?" with Kris Mitchener, August 27, 2019.

Spring 2019

• "Last Moments: Death and our Animal Companions" with Cheryl Abbate, Fr. Dan Edwards, Jessica Pierce and Ross Taylor, May 2, 2019.  Note: This video contains images that show raw grief and grieving. Some may find these images challenging to view.
• "Why Not Capitalism?" with Jason Brennan, April 9, 2019.
• "The First Weaponization of the First Amendment" with Laura Weinrib, March 20, 2019.
• "The Exploitation of Labor and Other Myths" with Mark Pulliam, March 14, 2019.
• "Shattered Consensus" with James Piereson, March 7, 2019.
• "National Conservatives and Traditional Conservatives: A Call for Unity" with Mattias Karlsson, Feb. 25, 2019.
• "Fear of White Demographic Suicide" with Tukufu Zuberi, Feb. 15, 2019.
• "The Diversity Delusion" with Heather Mac Donald, Feb. 13, 2019.
• "Truth, Politics, and the Press: A Panel Discussion" with Amy Westfeldt, Roderick Hart and Kelsey Harkness, Feb. 7, 2019.
• "The Theater of War, What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today" with Bryan Doerries, Jan. 31, 2019.
• "Why Culture Matters Most" with David C. Rose, Jan. 17, 2019.

Fall 2018

• "Rulers, Religion, and Riches" with Jared Rubin, Nov. 29, 2018.
• "Impeachment: A Panel Discussion" with Stephen Presser, Michaele Ferguson and William B. Allen, Oct. 29, 2018.
• "Imagination Rules the World: Russell Kirk and Conservatism" with Gerald Russello, Oct. 11, 2018.
• "Civic Friendship in America" with Colleen Sheehan, Oct. 4, 2018.
• "Conservatism in the Age of Trump" with Francis Buckley, Sept. 25, 2018.
• "President Trump: A Danger to the Republic?" with Stephen Presser, Sept. 13, 2018.

Spring 2018

• "World War Two-Then and Now" with Victor Davis Hanson, May 2, 2018.
• "James Madison: Founder of the American Founding" with James Ceaser, April 23, 2018.
• "Medical Aid in Dying in Colorado: Is it morally acceptable to do what the law allows?" with Martin Gunderson, Craig Konnoth, and Christopher Tollefsen, April 10, 2018.
• "A 'Bold Experiment': Five Years of Conservative Thought in Boulder" with Steven Hayward, Brian Domitrovic, Francis Beckwith, Robert Kaufman, and Stephen Presser, April 9, 2018.
• "Assessing the Trump Presidency: Revolution, Realignment, or Chaos?" with Robert G Kaufman, Elizabeth Spalding, and Matthew Spalding, April 5, 2018.
• "Responsibilities to Refugees" with Jovana Davidovic, Yasemin Sari, and Christopher Heath Wellman, March 12, 2018.
• "Tocqueville's Philosophy of Moderation and America's Need to Rediscover It" with Paul Carrese, February 19, 2018.
• "Media Against Fascism, Then and Now" with Fred Turner, February 15, 2018.
• "Two Provisional Cheers for Trump's Foreign Policy" with Robert Kaufman at the Steamboat Institute, February 7, 2018.
• "The Measure, Dimension, and Intersectionality of Truth" with The Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, February 1, 2018
• "Conscience: The Basis of Liberty, Character, and Civilization" with William B. Allen, January 25, 2018.

Fall 2017

• "Civil-Military Relations in The Trump Era" with Dr. Mackubin Thomas Owens, December 7, 2017.
• "The Demographics of Red and Blue America" with Michael Franc, November 29, 2017.
• "Do Law Professors Understand American Law?" with Stephen Presser, November 16, 2017.
• "The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age" with James Kirchick, November 15, 2017.
• "What is Academic Freedom?" with Brian Leiter, Regina Rini, Peter Wood, Michele Moses, November 9, 2017.