The Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America
Mallory Factor, the John C. West Professor of International Politics and American Government, brings the Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America to The Citadel in an exciting new course being offered in the spring of 2012. A survey of the political tradition of modern conservatism in the United States, the course features a veritable who’s who of guest lecturers from conservative political circles, including former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
This seminar is intended to serve as an introduction to conservative thought, connecting the tradition to other political, economic, and philosophical themes in Western culture and will feature both lecture and discussion.
Watch videos of the lectures here.
CLASS SCHEDULE
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January 18 |
Introduction to the Conservative Intellectual Tradition |
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January 25 |
Edmund Burke and the Origins of Modern Conservatism |
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February 1 |
The Conservative Tradition and the American Experiment |
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February 8 |
The Fragility of Ordered Liberty: Tocqueville and Conservative Conceptions of Liberty, Equality, and Community |
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February 15 |
New Deal Progressivism, the Jeffersonian Revival, and the Agrarian Tradition |
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February 22 |
The Emergence of Libertarianism |
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February 29 |
The Reagan Revolution |
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March 7 |
William F. Buckley, Jr., Fusionism, and the Three-Legged Stool of Conservatism |
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March 14 |
The Cold War, Anti-Communism, and Neo-Conservatism |
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March 21 |
Economics and Conservatism |
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April 4 |
Cultural Conservatism and the Religious Right |
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April 11 |
The Bush Doctrine, Compassionate Conservatism, and the War on Terror |
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April 18 |
The Future of the Conservative Movement |
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