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Why You Should Read Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower with Dr. David Anderson
Nov 27, 2024
Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. David Anderson for a conversation about the work of Octavia Butler.
David Anderson received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and has published on American and African American poetry. He is currently editing an anthology of African American writing about the sea,...
Nov 24, 2024
Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. Aurelein Craiutu for a conversation regarding John Stuart Mill’s book On Liberty.
Aurelian Craiutu (Ph.D. Princeton, 1999) is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Adjunct Professor in the Lilly Family School of...
Nov 20, 2024
Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. Carson Holloway for a conversation about C.S. Lewis' book The Abolition of Man and exactly why reading it is important.
Carson Holloway is a Washington Fellow at The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. His research focuses on American constitutionalism...
Nov 20, 2024
Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. Carson Holloway for a conversation regarding the work of Joseph Story.
Carson Holloway is a Washington Fellow at The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. His research focuses on American constitutionalism and the liberal nationalism of the American...
Nov 19, 2024
Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. John Kleber for a conversation regarding the work of Neil Postman.
Now one of Kentucky’s most respected historians, John Kleber was a member of the third graduating class of Trinity High School in 1959. Four years later he earned a history BA at Bellarmine College, graduating...