A four-part seminar with Ross Douthat
A four-part seminar for Yale undergraduates; by invitation.
Luncheon will be served. Readings subject to change.
For more information, contact Patrick Hough.

Session 1: Has Liberalism Failed?
12:00pm / Thursday, January 31
Readings:
Selections, Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed (Yale University Press, 2018)

Session 2: The Virtue of Nationalism
12:00pm / Thursday, February 14
Readings:
Selections, Yoram Hazony, In Defense of Nationalism (Basic Books, 2018)

Session 3: Further Critiques
12:00pm / Thursday, February 28
Readings (Tentative):
Yanis Varoufakis, “Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out,” The Guardian (April 20, 2018)
Adrian Vermeule, “Integration from Within,” American Affairs (Spring 2018 Vol. 2, No. 1)
Adrian Vermeule, “Liberalism’s Fear,” The Josias (May 9, 2018)

Session 4: Liberalism Reconsidered
Co-led with Bryan Garsten
12:00pm / Thursday March 28
Readings (Tentative):
Bryan Garsten, “A Challenge, Not an Epitaph” Commonweal (December 3, 2018)
Bryan Garsten is Professor of Political Science and Humanities, and Chair of the Humanities Program at Yale University. More…