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The McConnell Center Podcast offers thought-provoking conversations with authors, scholars, leaders in the U.S. military, and political professionals focusing on leadership, literature, history, education, politics and life.

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Apr 23, 2024

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Trey Dimsdale to deliver a lecture titled "Rights Inflation? Can We Talk Too Much About Rights?"

Mr. Dimsdale, Director of the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, speaks as part of the "Tocqueville's America - and...


Apr 16, 2024

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Luke C. Sheahan, Ph.D., to deliver a lecture titled "Why Associations Matter."

Dr. Sheahan, a professor of political science at Duquesne University and a non-resident scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, speaks as part of the "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" series.

Long...


Apr 10, 2024

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Aurelian Craiutu, Ph.D., to deliver a lecture titled "Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals."

Dr. Craiutu, a political science professor at Indiana University and adjunct professor in the American Studies Program and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropic Studies at IUPUI,...


Jan 25, 2024

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. Brad Birzer to deliver a lecture titled 
"Robert Nisbet - The 20th Century's Tocqueville?"

Bradley J. Birzer (born 1967) is an American historian. He is a history professor and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College, the author of five books and the...


Nov 30, 2023

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Tracy McKenzie, PhD, to deliver a lecture titled 
"Alexis de Tocqueville on Christianity and the Peril and Promise of Democracy."

Dr. McKenzie, the Arthur F. Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning at Wheaton College, speaks as part of the "Tocqueville's America - and Ours"...