CWCTP Newsletter - April 2018

The election and presidency of Donald Trump seem to represent a significant break with established public policies, political parties, and presidential practices.  How significant are these changes compared to the past?  What are the implications for the future of American politics, in terms of both domestic and foreign policy?

Robert G Kaufman will interview Elizabeth and Matthew Spalding ---two renowned experts with impeccable academic credentials to address these subjects--- in a robust and freewheeling panel discussion.  

A reunion of the first five Visiting Scholars in Conservative Thought & Policy as they reflect on their time in Boulder, the position of Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought, and the state of American conservatism.

In November 2016, Colorado voters approved Proposition 106, permitting people with terminal illnesses to be prescribed medication that allows them to end their lives. This panel explores the circumstances under which Colorado law permits medical aid in dying and discusses whether it’s morally wrong for people to take of advantage of the law and end their lives.

James Ceaser is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including Presidential Selection (Princeton University Press, 1979), Reconstructing America (Yale University Press, 1997), and Nature and History in American Political Development (Harvard University Press, 2006) ), and Designing a Polity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010). He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Princeton University, Oxford University, the University of Basel, and the University of Bordeaux. He is a frequent contributor to the popular press, most recently the Weekly Standard and the National Review.

World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya.

Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory.

Followed by a book signing of "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won" with the author and speaker, Victor Davis Hanson