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Podcast title	Ashbrook Events Podcast
Website URL	http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas...
Description	The Ashbrook Events Podcast provides audio from recent events held at the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs as well as events from our extensive library of archived speeches.
Updated	Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:04:47 -0500
Category	Politics
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1. Gordon Lloyd on Political Economy (November 4, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: The basic spectrum of public policy, certainly in the Western World, over the last four centuries reflects one of two rival and opposite points of departure. The first, the liberty narrative, is grounded in the work of John Locke and subsequently "corrected" by Adam Smith, the American Founding, John Stuart Mill and in the twentieth century by such thinkers as F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman. The second, the equality narrative, is grounded in the work of J.J. Rousseau and subsequently "corrected" by the French Revolution, the early socialists, Karl Marx and in the twentieth century by popular social economists like John Kenneth Galbraith and Michael Harrington. The liberty narrative emphasizes the importance of the "liberty basket" and political economy: private property as a reward for entrepreneurship, the wisdom of market forces, limited government, and the capacity of humans to govern themselves in the political, economic, and religious realms. The equality narrative emphasizes the importance of the "equality basket" or social economy: private property is the result of theft, the anarchy of market forces and the need for the wisdom of planners, a centralized administration expressing the general will, and the victimization and alienation of ordinary human beings. Gordon Lloyd is professor of public policy at Pepperdine University.
2. Steven Hayward on Political Economy (October 25, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Steven Hayward is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as Thomas W. Smith Senior Fellow in Political Economy and Thomas and Mabel Guy Professor of American History and Government at Ashland University. This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
3. Mackubin T. Owens on Civil-Military Relations (September 30, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Civil-military relations describe the interactions among the people of a state, the institutions of that state, and the military of the state. At the institutional level, there are "two hands on the sword." The civil hand determines when to draw it from the scabbard and thence guides it in its use. This is the dominant hand of policy, the purpose for which the sword exists in the first place. The military’s hand sharpens the sword for use and wields it in combat. From the time of the Revolution to the present, US civil-military relations essentially have constituted a bargain among the aforementioned parties--the people, the civil government, and the military establishment--concerning the allocation of prerogatives and responsibilities between the government and the military in answer to five questions: Who controls the military instrument? What is the appropriate level of military influence on society? What is the role of the military? What pattern of civil-military relations best ensures military success? Who serves? Mackubin T. Owens, Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College in Newport, RI.
4. Christopher Burkett on James Madison (September 16, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Christopher Burkett, assistant professor of political science at Ashland University, provided a lecture on "Rediscovering James Madison as the Father of the Constitution." This speech was given in the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as the 13th annual Robert E. Henderson Constitution Day Lecture.
5. John Boehner on the Future of America (June 11, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: John Boehner is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. This speech was given as the keynote address at the 26th Annual John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio.
6. Josh Mandel on Standing Up to the Establishment (April 19, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Josh Mandel is the Ohio Treasurer of State. This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
7. Robert Reilly on the Closing of the Muslim Mind (March 25, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: "The Closing of the Muslim Mind" tells the extraordinarily dramatic story of the struggle within Islam over the relationship between God and reason--in other words over who God is--and of the dreadful effects of embracing a conception of God without reason. The deformed theology that resulted from this produced a dysfunctional culture. It has also produced a spiritual pathology that seeks success in death. Reilly attempts to relate not so much how the decline of the Muslim world happened, but why it happened; what its devastating consequences have been, and how the Muslim mind might possibly be reopened (as suggested by Muslims themselves), an endeavor fraught with repercussions for the West, as well as for the Islamic world. Robert Reilly is senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.
8. William Batchelder on Economic Growth in Ohio (March 14, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: William Batchelder is the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
9. Richard Reinsch on Whittaker Chambers (February 25, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Whittaker Chambers's famous conversion from Communism to Christianity and his witness to truth in the early Cold War period were made possible because he wrestled with the question that modern rationalism was unable to pose to itself: What can be hoped for with this life? In the opportunity for transcendence, a need felt by every man, exists the possibility for man to finally understand himself. Chambers knew that the answer could not be found in our banal humanism. The West still accepts, more or less, the Enlightenment's fundamental conceit that man makes his own reality. Communism now stands discredited. However, our philosophical confusion from which the ideology emerged remains too much with us. Richard Reinsch is a program officer at Liberty Fund, Inc. He is the author of the recently released book "Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary."
10. Edith Foster on Thucydides (January 28, 2011) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Why would anyone write yet another book on a famous ancient author, for instance, Thucydides? Why are so many books written about such authors? What are some of the issues and values being negotiated by the people who write them? Edith Foster will discuss these questions and her own recent book about Thucydides. Thucydides wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (431—404 BCE). In this history, he brings many famous characters to life through displaying their actions and speeches. Probably the most famous of these characters is the Athenian statesman Pericles. Dr. Foster’s book ("Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism", Cambridge University Press, 2010), advances an argument that we should not identify Thucydides with his vivid portrayal of Pericles’ characteristic imperialism. That is, we should not think that Thucydides was necessarily an imperialist because he was capable of such a vivid portrait. Instead, the book argues that Thucydides’ description of Pericles, and particularly of his doomed imperialism, is meant as a lesson and a mirror for subsequent generations. Edith Foster is Assistant Professor of History at Ashland University.
11. Matthew Spalding on Realigning American Politics (October 26, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Matthew Spalding is Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is author of "We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future." This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
12. Peter Schramm, David Foster, Jeff Sikkenga, Chris Burkett and Michael Schwarz on Election 2010 (October 14, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: The Republicans suffered disastrous defeats in both the elections of 2006 and 2008. The GOP lost both the U.S. Senate and the House in 2006, and not only did the Democrats add to their numbers in both houses of Congress in 2008, but their candidate Barack Obama was elected president. The Democrats, now fully in control in Washington, worked hard on their promised agenda and were able to make good on many of their promises, including the passing of the health care legislation. But politics continued and the Republicans stood firm on many issues. Opposition to Democrats began to solidify and harden, especially in a grass-roots movement that called itself a Tea Party. The Democrats now find themselves in an unenviable position—according to polls just weeks before the elections—of losing somewhere around 50 seats in the House and seven to eight seats in the Senate (and also losing seven to eight gubernatorial races). Is this tidal wave against the Democrats for real? And if it is, what caused it, and what will be the political consequences for President Obama and the Democrats, as well as for the Republicans. Our distinguished panel considered all this in a conversation to which the public was invited.
13. William Voegeli on Downsizing Government (October 8, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: William Voegeli is a visiting scholar at Claremont McKenna College's Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, and a contributing editor for the Claremont Review of Books. His essays and reviews have appeared in City Journal, First Things, In Character, the Los Angeles Times, National Review, and The New Criterion. He posts regularly on No Left Turns, the Ashbrook Center's blog. Voegeli is the author of Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State, published by Encounter Books. After receiving a doctorate in political science from Loyola University in Chicago he was a program officer for the John M. Olin Foundation.
14. Jonah Goldberg on Liberalism and the Moral Equivalent of War (September 29, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Jonah Goldberg was the founding editor of National Review Online and is currently editor-at-large of NRO. He is a Pulitzer-nominated columnist for The Los Angeles Times. This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
15. Robert Alt on the 10th Amendment (September 16, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Robert Alt, Senior Legal Fellow and Deputy Director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, provided a lecture on "Rediscovering the Tenth Amendment." This speech was given in the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as the 12th annual Robert E. Henderson Constitution Day Lecture.
16. Peter Schramm and John Moser on Calvin Coolidge (April 16, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Calvin Coolidge was a fine man and a good president. He was smart and learned and deeply thoughtful, with a great sense of humor. A refined student of the Constitution, he had a deep appreciation for the American way of life. He always held close to his small town roots and his concern for the common man. He was very popular, and by all accounts would have been re-elected president in 1928, but chose not to run. A true public servant, Coolidge held more public offices than any other president and was a driver of many reforms, including women’s suffrage and tax cuts. He was a fine writer who not only wrote his own speeches, but also an autobiography. Why Coolidge Matters is a collection of essays asserting Coolidge’s lasting value for American life and politics. In addition to our own Peter Schramm and John Moser, the 21 unique contributors to this book include: Ward Connerly, Governor Michael Dukakis, Robert Ferrell, Senator John F. Kerry, Amity Shlaes and others. Peter Schramm is the Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center and a Professor of Political Science at Ashland University. John Moser is an Associate Professor of History at Ashland University.
17. Sidney Milkis on Theodore Roosevelt (March 19, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Led by Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party made the 1912 campaign a passionate contest for the soul of the American people. Promoting an ambitious program of economic, social, and political reform--"New Nationalism"--that posed profound challenges to constitutional government, TR and his Progressive supporters provoked an extraordinary debate about the future of the country. Milkis revisits this emotionally charged contest to show how a party seemingly consumed by its leader’s ambition dominated the election and left an enduring legacy that set in motion the rise of mass democracy and the expansion of national administrative power. Sidney Milkis is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics and Assistant Director for Academic Programs at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
18. James Leach on Civility (February 22, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: James Leach, the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, provided a lecture on "Civility in a Fractured Society." This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lectures Series.
19. Michael Burlingame on Abraham Lincoln (February 19, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Michael Burlingame is the holder of the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Professor Burlingame is the author of "Abraham Lincoln: A Life" (2 vols.; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and "The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln" (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994). In addition, he has edited the several volumes of Lincoln primary source materials.
20. Mary Taylor on the Future of Ohio (January 26, 2010) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Mary Taylor, State Auditor of Ohio and currently a candidate for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, provided a lecture on "Ohio by the Numbers, Ohio by the Heart." This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lectures Series.
21. John Kasich on the Future of Ohio (November 16, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: John Kasich, former Congressman and currently a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio, provided a lecture on "A New Way, A New Day." This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lectures Series.
22. John Moser on Captain America (November 13, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: The comic book hero Captain America was created in 1940, while World War II raged in Europe. He was the first superhero specifically designed to fight Nazis, and his book proved immensely popular during the war years. Marvel Comics decided to revive the character in 1964, but a problem soon emerged--during peacetime, what is there for a superhero to do when he was originally created to beat up on America’s foreign enemies? Comic book fans offered plenty of answers, and the result was the so-called "patriotism controversy," in which fans, writers, and editors debated Cap’s relevance in the 1960s and 1970s. The direction in which they ultimately took the character tells us a great deal about how patriotism came to be redefined as a result of the tumultuous events of the period. John Moser is Associate Professor of History at Ashland University.
23. Steven Hayward on Ronald Reagan (October 30, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: The second volume of "The Age of Reagan" provides a complete narrative history of the Reagan presidency and its aftermath, covering both domestic and foreign policy. The book pays special attention to Reagan’s battles within his own party as well as opposition from Democrats, and assesses how Reagan changed both parties. "The Age of Reagan" also surveys aspects of the "Reagan Revolution" that were less successful, and its lessons for politics today. Steven Hayward is F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as a member of the Ashbrook Center’s Board of Advisors.
24. Tim Timken on Private Enterprise (October 16, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Ward J. "Tim" Timken, Jr., chairman of the board of directors of The Timken Company, provided a lecture on "Private Enterprise: A Cornerstone of American Democracy." This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lectures Series.
25. Sally Pipes on Health Care Reform (September 24, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Sally Pipes, President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, California, provided a lecture on the top myths of American health care reform. This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lectures Series.
26. Colleen Sheehan on James Madison (September 18, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: In the first study that combines an in-depth examination of Madison’s National Gazette essays of 1791-92 with a study of The Federalist, Colleen Sheehan traces the evolution of Madison's conception of the politics of communication and public opinion throughout the Founding period, demonstrating how "the sovereign public" would form and rule in America. Contrary to those scholars who claim that Madison dispensed with the need to form an active and virtuous citizenry, Sheehan argues that Madison's vision for the new nation was informed by the idea of republican self-government, whose manifestation he sought to bring about in the spirit and way of life of the American people. Madison’s story is "the story of an idea"--the idea of America. Colleen Sheehan is Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, Director of the Ryan Center for Free Institutions and the Public Good.
27. Robert J. Norrell on Booker T. Washington (April 3, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: At the time of Booker T. Washington's death in 1915, the country widely acknowledged the esteemed orator and author of "Up From Slavery," the tireless educator and founder of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, as the successor to Frederick Douglass. But failing health, a late career scandal and a sustained attack by Northern black enemies who deeply resented his preeminence had already dimmed Washington's star, and his historical reputation has only continued to decline. During Washington's last decade, the Niagara Movement and the NAACP had both emerged at least in part to counter his "Tuskegee machine," to challenge his seeming stranglehold on black opinion and to counter his gospel of racial conciliation. The powerful pen and the fiery rhetoric of W.E.B. Du Bois began the work, still ongoing, of diminishing Washington's achievement and his competing vision of black progress. In this measured and sympathetic treatment, Norrell restores some balance, particularly with his detailed survey of conditions in the South. Robert J. Norrell holds the Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of Excellence and is Professor of History at the University of Tennessee.
28. James Piereson on the Kennedy Assassination (February 20, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: It has now been more than forty years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on the streets of Dallas on November 22, 1963. No event in the post-war era--not even the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001--has cast such a long shadow over our national life. The murder of the handsome and vigorous president shocked the nation to its core and shook the faith of many Americans in their institutions and way of life. The repercussions from that event continue to be felt down to the present day. Looking back, it is now clear that Kennedy’s death marked a historical crossroads after which point events began to move in surprising and destructive directions. James Piereson is president of the William E. Simon Foundation.
29. Peter W. Schramm on Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Peter W. Schramm, Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center and Professor of Political Science at Ashland University, provides a lecture on Abraham Lincoln's statesmanship and importance to America on the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lectures Series.
30. William B. Allen on George Washington (January 23, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: George Washington defined progressivism and provided the rationale for its constitutional basis in a vision of self-government: a nation dedicated to and capable of sustaining civil and religious liberty, the intertwined ends of politics as he saw it. For Washington, religious liberty was not a side benefit of independence but rather the objective for which independence was sought. Washington’s political philosophy--radical for his time--was a commitment to the belief that law can never make just what is in its nature unjust. Before the close of the Revolutionary War, he had conceived of a union based on the progressive principle that the American people would qualify for self-government in the sense of free institutions in proportion to their moral capacity to govern themselves by the light of reason. Washington managed the conflicts over the spoils of victory that threatened to fracture the union. Containing this discord "within the walls of the Constitution" may be considered his single greatest achievement. William B. Allen is professor emeritus of politicsl science at Michigan State University. He is the author of "George Washington: America's First Progressive" among numerous other books.
31. Rob Portman on Election 2008 (January 13, 2009) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Rob Portman, former Congressman and member of the Bush administration, alludes to his plans for the future and discusses the 2008 election. This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lectures Series.
32. Wayne LaPierre on Protecting the Second Amendment (November 17, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Wayne LaPierre, the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, discusses the importance of protecting the Second Amendment and the many challenges it faces in the current political environment. This speech was given on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lectures Series.
33. Daniel Walker Howe on the Transformation of America from 1815 to 1848 (November 7, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: On May 24, 1844, Professor Samuel F. B. Morse, seated in the chambers of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, tapped out a message on a device of cogs and coiled wires. Using a code he had recently devised, he spelled out: "WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT." Forty miles away, in Baltimore, Morse’s associate received the electric signals and telegraphed the message back. As those who witnessed it understood, this demonstration would change America and the world. Instant long-range communications built upon earlier improvements in printing and the distribution of printed matter. Together with the improvements in transportation represented by railroads, steamboats, and canals, they revolutionized American life between 1815 and 1848. In 1815 America had been what we would call a "third world country" where most people lived on isolated farmsteads. Many people grew their own food; many wives made their families’ clothes. Dramatic improvements in transportation and communication transformed not only commerce but every aspect of life, including politics, education, national expansion, and religion. By 1848 the United States had become a transatlantic major power, significantly more like the America of today than it had been in 1815. Revolutions in communications and transportation had occurred in a period of thirty-three years. Daniel Walker Howe won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. He is Rhodes Professor American History Emeritus at Oxford University and Professor History Emeritus at UCLA.
34. The No Left Turns Bloggers on Election 2008 (October 23, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: The No Left Turns Bloggers (Peter Schramm, Steven Hayward, Peter Lawler, Julie Ponzi, William Voegeli, and Joseph Knippenberg) gathered on the campus of Ashland University to discuss the 2008 Election.
35. Peter C. Myers on Frederick Douglass (October 17, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: In his articulation of the first principles of natural-rights liberalism as applied to racial justice in America, the nineteenth-century abolitionist and civil-rights advocate Frederick Douglass stands without peer. With an eye toward his present-day relevance, one may say that Douglass stands unsurpassed as an exemplar of peculiarly American and African American forms of hopefulness. But although Douglass’s hopefulness was certainly audacious, he insisted that it was by no means merely sentimental, rhetorical, or idealistic. He thought that there were good reasons, based on solid evidence, to expect the ultimate triumph of racial justice in America. What were these reasons? How, in the face of massive evidence to the contrary before his eyes, could Douglass maintain that the institution of slavery and the spirit of white supremacy that supported it were doomed, by the moral laws of nature, to fail? In Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism, Myers explains Douglass’s answers to these questions. Peter C. Myers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and author of "Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism."
36. President George W. Bush on the Presidency and the Courts (October 6, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: President George W. Bush provides the featured speech at the Ashbrook Center's conference on the Presidency and the Courts at the Hilton Netherland Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 6, 2008.
37. Evelyn Stratton on Her Life Story (September 22, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Ohio Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Stratton reflects on her life and successes as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.
38. Jeffrey Sikkenga on Constitutional Reverence (September 17, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Jeffrey Sikkenga, associate professor of political science at Ashland University, provides the 10th Annual Robert E. Henderson Constitution Day Lecture at the Ashbrook Center.
39. Jeb Bush on America's Promise (May 29, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush served as the keynote speaker for the 23rd Annual John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner on the campus of Ashland University.
40. Amity Shlaes on How 1936 Gave Us 2008 (April 28, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Syndicated columnist and author Amity Shlaes discusses her book, "The Forgotten Man" and explains how the election of 1936 has influenced every election that followed it, including the upcoming 2008 presidential election. This lecture was given on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
41. Mark Hulliung on the Social Contract (April 18, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: What perhaps more than anything else distinguished the Revolution and Founding from European experience was the American transformation of the idea of a social contract from theory to practice. By focusing on the role of the social contract we can shed new light on the old question, "Was the American Revolution a revolution?" The enormous importance of the idea of a social contract in America after the revolutionary era can be tracked by studying, among other developments, the land reform movement or the uses of the Declaration of Independence, down to Martin Luther King’s famous "I Have A Dream" speech of 1963. Mark Hulliung holds a professorship at Brandeis University.
42. Allan Greenberg on Architecture and Democracy (March 18, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Architect and author Allan Greenberg discusses his views on classical architecture and its relationship to democracy. This lecture was given on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series. This speech is best appreciated if accompanied by the slide presentation found here: http://www.ashbrook.org/podcasts/events/greenberg.ppt. When Mr. Greenberg says "next" during the speech, advance one slide. (Note: this is a large file165+ MB)
43. Jeremy Bailey on Thomas Jefferson (February 29, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Citizens and scholars are again confronted with a question presented by necessity and the law: Because no law can anticipate every contingency, how can any set of laws remain fundamental and practical? That is, how can discretion be made compatible with democratic consent? Before he became president, Thomas Jefferson had devoted 25 years to this problem. He arrived at a way to resolve the tension between contingency and a written constitution. This solution was an executive that would be both strong and democratic. Indeed, it would derive its strength, or its energy, from its democratic sources and present an alternative to Alexander Hamilton’s understanding of executive power. Thus, Jefferson’s Revolution of 1800 brought about a transformation of the presidency because the architect of that revolution had a plan for executive power. But this plan was itself subject to events, and Jefferson had to alter its course throughout his presidency. By revisiting Jefferson’s understanding of executive power we better understand Jefferson’s presidency and more fully trace the development of modern presidential power. Jeremy Bailey is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Houston.
44. Tim Goeglein with a Perspective from the White House (February 5, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Tim Goeglein, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison at the White House, discusses his views on America and the 9/11 generation. This lecture was given on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
45. Kristofer Ray on Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825 (January 18, 2008) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: During its early years, the frontier region of Middle Tennessee developed from thinly settled outposts to a premier destination for thousands of land-hungry immigrants. The resulting population explosion led to a shift in political power from a small group of surveyors and speculators to the farmers, merchants, and entrepreneurs attracted by a burgeoning, globally-connected agricultural economy. This study chronicles the rise of Middle Tennessee’s political system as it transformed from one dominated by land interests to an increasingly vibrant democracy in which the "common man" had more of a voice. It also explores the fact that as the economy grew a sharp debate emerged between the mercantile class and ordinary farmers as to the best way to sustain regional progress. In short, this colloquium outlines the issues, values, and visions around which the politics of early Middle Tennessee were based. It shows how the region’s emerging political culture established a foundation for the rise of popular democracy, through which Tennesseans not only expressed themselves with ballots, but also through town hall meetings, toasting, parades, and even effigy burnings. Kristofer Ray is an assistant professor of early American history at Ashland University.
46. Helen Krieble on Immigration (November 27, 2007) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Helen Krieble, founder and president of The Vernon K. Krieble Foundation, a private foundation dedicated to public policy and America’s Founding principles, discusses her market-based solution to the immigration and border control problems facing America. This lecture was given on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
47. Jean Edward Smith on FDR (November 2, 2007) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: For more than a generation, Americans have been told that government is the problem, not the solution. A look back at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency shows how differently Americans once viewed government’s role, how much more optimistic they were, and how much more they trusted the president. When Roosevelt took office in 1933, one-third of the nation was unemployed, agriculture lay destitute, factories were idle, businesses were closing their doors, and the banking system teetered on the brink of collapse. FDR seized the opportunity, rescued the nation from economic collapse, and then led it to victory in the greatest war of all time. Roosevelt changed our view of the modern presidency, the nature of government, and America’s role in the world. Elected an unprecedented four times, "he lifted himself from his wheelchair, to lift this nation from its knees." Jean Edward Smith is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and the author of twelve books including the recently published "FDR."
48. Jay Nordlinger on This President and the Next (October 26, 2007) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Jay Nordlinger, managing editor of National Review, discusses the presidency of George W. Bush and the contenders for the presidency in 2008. This lecture was given on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
49. Gordon Lloyd on FDR and Hoover (October 5, 2007) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Hoover and Roosevelt can do a lot for us, the current generation, as we continue to deal with the new public policy debate they inaugurated in the 1930s. Seventy-five years later, we are still wrestling with what government should do and which level and which branch should do it. Why did Hoover see the New Deal as a "challenge to liberty" and the American system of limited federal government and robust individual responsibility? He warned that FDR was fundamentally altering the system. Why did FDR, by contrast, see the New Deal as the opportunity to establish "freedom from fear" and save democratic capitalism from destruction? This lecture explores the two different and competing narratives of what it means to be an American. Gordon Lloyd is Professor of Public Policy in the graduate School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.
50. Edith Jones on Judicial Restraint (September 13, 2007) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Edith Jones is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. This lecture was given as the 9th Annual Robert E. Henderson Constitution Day Lecture at the Ashbrook Center on the campus of Ashland University.
51. Larry Schweikart on American History (September 23, 2005) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: "A Patriot’s History of the United States" tells a story of America as a special nation—a "City on a Hill"—not because the people in America are, or were, better than anyone else, but because from the beginning those settling the New World adopted systems that embraced primarily these three elements: private property rights, religious virtues [that emphasized personal character], and competition at all levels, from political parties to structures of government to market activities. All three were intricately wound together. Learning "just the facts" of the American past inevitably leads to the conclusion that the United States is the best place on earth, and that it has acted, for the most part, far better than any other nation at any other time. Larry Schweikart is a professor of history at the University of Dayton, specializing in business and economic history, technology and war issues, and American history.
52. Richard Vedder on the American Economy (February 18, 2003) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Richard Vedder is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has written extensively on labor issues, authoring such books as "The American Economy in Historical Perspective" and, with Lowell Gallaway, "Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America."
53. Donald Brand on FDR and the Second Bill of Rights (October 17, 2003) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: From the earliest days of the New Deal Franklin Roosevelt described his political project as the foundation of an economic constitutional order, a second Bill of Rights. Freedom of speech and freedom of worship were to be supplemented by freedom from want. In his most elaborate formulation of this idea Roosevelt spoke of the right to decent housing, adequate food, and basic medical care. Does the addition of a second Bill of Rights strengthen the cause of liberal government? Is an economic constitutional order compatible with limited government? Donald R. Brand is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Chairman of the department at College of the Holy Cross.
54. Peter C. Myers on John Locke and the Liberal Family (November 14, 2003) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: In recent decades, the U.S. and other liberal societies have sustained large increases in the incidences of divorce and unmarried parenthood. At present, we find ourselves embroiled in a growing controversy over gay marriage. How should we judge these developments? Should we celebrate the progressive transformation of the family as promoting the fundamental liberal purposes of individual freedom and happiness? Or should we resist the progressive disintegration of the family as an ultimately self-destructive assault on civil society’s primary and indispensable character-forming institution? To gain some perspective, a useful first step is to reconsider the classical liberal conception of the family, as presented by the greatest philosopher of classical liberalism, John Locke. By considering Locke’s understanding of the nature and purpose of marriage, we can gain important insight into our contemporary controversies, viewing them in light of more fundamental questions concerning the nature and conditions of individual rights, freedom, and happiness, and of legitimate, republican government. Peter C. Myers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, specializing in political philosophy.
55. Steven Forde on Benjamin Franklin (September 26, 2003) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Several recent biographies of Benjamin Franklin have reignited interest in this beloved but somewhat mysterious American Founder. Franklin has always been beloved for his avuncular good humor, expressed through his "Autobiography" and the innumerable bons mots of Poor Richard. Franklin is mysterious because, although he played a key role in the drama of independence and was a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, he wrote very little of a systematic nature on politics. Franklin was less inclined than many of his fellow Founders to make grand statements on politics (or philosophy), but was more interested in what we might call the social and cultural preconditions of free government. His "Autobiography," the sayings of Poor Richard, and other writings reveal that Franklin was most interested in education, in shaping the mores of the new nation. That is where we will look for Franklin’s message to us today. Steven Forde is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas.
56. J. Kenneth Blackwell on Religious Liberty (September 10, 2003) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: J. Kenneth Blackwell, the former Treasurer and Secretary of State of Ohio, discusses the importance of religious liberty.
57. Robert V. Remini on Andrew Jackson (September 6, 2002) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Robert V. Remini discusses his book, "Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars." Remini is professor emeritus of history and the humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to his three-volume biography of Andrew Jackson, he is the author of biographies of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, as well as a dozen other books on Jacksonian America.
58. Josiah Bunting on the Politics of Military Strategy (March 28, 2007) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Josiah Bunting is the president of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Prior to his work at the Guggenheim Foundation, he served as a professor of history at the Naval War College, president of Briarcliff College and Hampden Sydney College, and, most recently, as superintendent at his alma mater, the Virginia Military Institute. This lecture was given as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.
59. Harry V. Jaffa on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (March 23, 2007) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Ever since the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas clashed repeatedly over the question of "popular sovereignty" and the extension of slavery into the territories. Each man became not only the spokesman of his party, but also the embodiment of a principle and a policy about which the structure of parties--and of political power in the nation--was to reshape itself. The central question in the seven joint debates of 1858, upon which the entire controversy turned, was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the propriety of its restoration. The answer to this very practical question depended upon the answer to the deep theoretical question: in what sense could it be said that all men are created equal? Harry V. Jaffa is a distinguished fellow of The Claremont Institute. He is Professor Emeritus of Government at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School.
60. Jack Hafer on the Power of Films (February 27, 2007) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Jack Hafer is the producer of the award-winning feature film, "To End All Wars" starring Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Carlyle. It won Best Picture at the Heartland Film Festival, was awarded the Commander in Chief Medal of Service, Honor and Pride by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and showcased the 2003 Cannes Film Festival Cinema for Peace. This lecture was given as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.
61. Michael Anton on Men's Clothing (February 23, 2007) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Mark Twain never worked in today's fast-paced workplace, but his observation has never been keener: clothes do make the man. With "The Suit," Nicholas Antongiavanni provides a masterly manual on what it takes to succeed: advice on how to dress with style, flair, and an eye toward gaining power. That's because "business casual" has proved itself a one-way ticket to a lifetime in the corporate dungeon. But if you apply the sartorial advice proffered in The Suit to your clothes, you will project elegance, bravado, and success. Drawing inspiration from Machiavelli's "The Prince," Antongiavanni has crafted an essential handbook for the ambitious man who recognizes that smart and stylish appearance is a lever to power. From neckties to footwear, belts to suspenders, lapels to handkerchiefs, "The Suit" leaves no garment or accessory untouched and will inject a dose of good taste into your closet. The debates over double-breasted vs. single, two-buttons vs. three, English vs. Italian, and many others are settled with wit by Antongiavanni's wealth of knowledge in the art of dress. Nicholas Antongiavanni is the nom de plum of Michael Anton, a former speechwriter to President George W. Bush, New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Anton currently works for a powerful media mogul and lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and small child. A leading expert on men’s tailoring, he owns more suits than he would care to admit.
62. David Brennan on Education (December 8, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: David Brennan is the Chairman of White Hat Management LLC and a leading figure in the charter school and school voucher movements. In this lecture he discusses education from the perspective of an entrepreneur. This lecture was given as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.
63. Glenn Beck on Militant Islam (December 1, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Glenn Beck is a nationally syndicated talk radio personality and host of his own show on CNN. This speech was the keynote address at the 22nd Annual John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.
64. Russell Weaver on Heidegger and Hermeneutic Truth (November 10, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Russell Weaver's new book "Questioning Keats: An Introduction to Applied Hermeneutics" presents a critique of conventional textual interpretation, arguing that what it terms standard academic discourse objectifies the meaning of the text’s words in such a manner that their richness is obscured. Since the views of language and interpretation "Questioning Keats" proposes are analogous in many ways to those of Martin Heidegger and his pupil Hans-Georg Gadamer, it devotes five chapters to laying out the ideas of these philosophers that are necessary to understand the concept of applied hermeneutics it is forwarding. Heidegger’s groundbreaking notion that Being is time underlies the idea of hermeneutic truth, perhaps the most important of the philosophical ideas dealt with in this text. Hermeneutic truth is an approach that challenges the referential, empirical ideas of truth most often met with in academic discussions. It holds that human phenomena cannot be subsumed by empirical propositions but must be treated as fully implicated in time, as Heidegger’s showing how it is co-terminous with Being implies.
65. Jack Miller on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (October 17, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Jack Miller, the founder and former President/CEO of Quill Corporation is one of the Chicago area’s most prominent and successful entrepreneurs. He built Quill from scratch to dominance and engineered its sale to Staples. Mr. Miller is listed annually in the Crain’s Who’s Who in Chicago Business. After the sale of Quill he is now Chairman of the Board at Successories Inc., and a Managing Member at The Benida Group, LLC and Millbrook Properties, LLC.
66. James W. Ceaser on American Political Thought (October 13, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: American thinkers and statesmen have sought to ground political life in first principles, or foundations, that derive from ideas of nature, history, or faith. To achieve clarity about the American political thought and its development, each foundational concept must be defined and the important debates among them analyzed. This lecture presents and discusses some of the key controversies about foundational ideas from the period of the Founding until the present day. James W. Ceaser is Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia.
67. Alan Reynolds on Supply Side Economics (March 19, 2002) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Alan Reynolds is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He previously served as director of economic research at the Hudson Institute and as vice president and chief economist at both Polyconomics and at the First National Bank of Chicago. This lecture, given as part of the Major Issues Lecture Series of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, discusses the successes and failures of supply side economics after 30 years.
68. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding on Harry Truman (September 22, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Most scholars argue that the "wise men" around President Harry Truman crafted the strategy of containment in the 1940s to meet the challenges of the Cold War. In fact, it was Truman himself who was the key decision maker in the critical period between 1945 and 1950. His statesmanship was characterized by policies such as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin airlift and institutions such as NATO, the Department of Defense, and the National Security Council. Truman’s unique vision—which was shaped by his dedicated anticommunism and his religious faith—stressed the importance of free peoples, democratic institutions, and sovereign nations. By his words and actions, Truman fashioned a new liberal internationalism, distinct from both Woodrow Wilson’s progressive internationalism and Franklin Roosevelt’s liberal pragmatism, that still shapes our politics and policies in the post-September 11 world. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding is Assistant Professor of Government and Director of the Washington Program at Claremont McKenna College, where she teaches U.S. foreign policy and American government.
69. Todd Gaziano on the Separation of Powers (September 18, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Todd Gaziano is Director of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation where he focuses on legal and judicial reform and such constitutional issues as ensuring that all citizens are accorded equal treatment under the law. This lecture was given at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University as the Eighth Annual Robert E. Henderson Constitution Day Lecture.
70. Ralph Regula on America's Challenge in the New World (September 11, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Ralph Regula has had a distinguished career in public service that spans more than four decades. One of the most senior members of the US House of Representatives, he is serving as the Vice Chairman of the Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of its Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education. He is the dean of Ohio’s Congressional Delegation and is active in the Congressional Steel Caucus.
71. Stephen Black on Iraq Weapon Inspections (April 12, 2000) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Stephen Black is a Fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. From 1993 to 1999, he was historian to the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM). Black has also served as deputy chief inspector, inspector, mission planner, operations officer and report coordinator on 15 UNSCOM chemical and biological weapons inspections in Iraq.
72. Rich Lowry on the New American Man (December 5, 2000) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He joined National Review in 1992, after finishing second in a NR young writers contest. He became NR’s articles editor before moving to Washington in the summer of 1994 to cover Congress and was promoted to editor in 1997. He has written for Reader’s Digest, the Wall Street Journal, and a variety of other publications.
73. Andrew E. Busch on Ronald Reagan (February 8, 2002) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Twenty years after Ronald Reagan took office as President of the United States, Americans still debate the meaning of his presidency. Far from promoting a "decade of greed," as some have claimed, Busch asserts that Reagan’s presidency should be understood as contributing, significantly and deliberately, to a "decade of liberty." Indeed, the key theme holding together Reagan’s rhetoric, policies, and political coalition-building was the promotion of what Reagan saw as key components of American freedom. These included political freedom, sustained by constitutionalism and a discourse of freedom; economic freedom nurtured by a vibrant free-market economy; social underpinnings of freedom like a strong civil society; and the successful defense of freedom against its foreign adversaries. Andrew E. Busch is a Professor of Government at the Claremont McKenna College.
74. Ronald J. Pestritto on Criminal Law and the Founding (November 3, 2000) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Ronald J. Pestritto seeks to illuminate the political principles of the American founding by analyzing the significant changes that took place in criminal laws and punishments of the time. Following the American Revolution, several states dramatically reduced the severity of their criminal penalties. Based upon an analysis of period documents and writings, including state constitutions and statutes, the arguments of America’s founders, and the writings of such influential reforms as William Penn, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Pestritto seeks to grasp the complex mix of punishment philosophies at work in early America. While legal scholars and historians often credit Enlightenment utilitarianism with having the dominant influence on America’s first penal codes, he maintains that early criminal legislation represented a synthesis of approaches: divine justice, the natural law, penitence, and moral amendment as well as Enlightenment utilitarianism.
75. Linda Chavez on the Future of Race Relations (November 9, 1994) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Linda Chavez is the author of "Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation," which chronicles the largely untold story of Hispanic progress and achievement, and addresses the implications of bilingual education, voting rights, immigration policy and affirmative action. This speech was given at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
76. Eloise Anderson on Social Policy and Dependency (November 12, 2002) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Eloise Anderson is the Claremont Institute’s Director of the Program for the American Family. Ms. Anderson has been director of social services first in the state of Wisconsin and most recently in California. She is nationally and internationally cited as a champion of welfare reform across the United States. This speech was given at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
77. Herbert Romerstein on Soviet Espionage (November 16, 2001) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Herbert Romerstein retired in 1989 as head of the office to Counter Soviet Disinformation and Active Measures at the United States Information Agency. He held that post from 1983 to 1989. Romerstein has lectured and written extensively on Soviet Intelligence activities, Soviet Active Measures, international terrorism, and internal security.
78. Dinesh D'Souza on Illiberal Education (March 3, 1992) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Dinesh D'Souza, a Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a think-tank in Washington, D.C., is the author of the controversial bestseller "Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus." The premise of Mr. D'Souza's book and his public presentations is that preferential treatment in admission policies for minorities — primarily blacks, women and Hispanics — weaken educational standards and foster separatism and racial tensions on campus. This speech was given at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
79. Lynne Cheney on Academic Freedom (April 1, 1992) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice-President Dick Cheney, gave this speech in 1992 when she was serving as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This speech was given at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
80. Tony Snow on Federalism (April 12, 1995) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: At the time of this speech, Tony Snow was a nationally syndicated columnist for USA Today and the Detroit News as well as serving as a political commentator for "Good Morning America" and "The McLaughlin Group." Since that time, he has served as host of "Fox News Sunday" and has had a nationally syndicated radio show. He currently serves as the White House Press Secretary. This speech was given at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
81. Gertrude Himmelfarb on the Re-Moralization of Society (March 21, 1996) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Gertrude Himmelfarb is professor emeritus of history at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has written extensively on Victorian England and on contemporary society and culture. Her books include "The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values," "On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society," "Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians," and "The New History and the Old." This speech was given at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
82. Charles Kesler on The Federalist Papers (December 2, 1999) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: The Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, brilliantly defend what was in their day a revolutionary charter—the Constitution of the United States. The Federalist Papers explain the complexities of a constitutional government—its political structure and principles based on the inherent rights of man. Scholars have long regarded this work as a milestone in political science and a classic of American political theory. Charles Kesler is a professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College.
83. Mackubin T. Owens on Ulysses S. Grant (February 2, 2001) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: The military reputation of Ulysses S. Grant has often suffered in comparison to that of Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general. Grant has been dismissed as a butcher whose victories were the result of a massive Union advantage in men and equipment that enabled him to bludgeon the South into submission, despite the superior military skill of his overmatched adversaries. This view arises from the mythology of the Lost Cause, which, with rare exceptions, has dominated Civil War historiography until the present time. Grant’s detractors focus on the Northern Virginia campaign of spring-summer 1864, ignoring Grant’s Vicksburg campaign, a masterpiece of generalship and operational art. This lecture places these two campaigns in the proper strategic context and perhaps thereby contributes to the rehabilitation of Grant’s military reputation. Mackubin T. Owens is a professor of national security at the U.S. Naval War College.
84. Daniel Pipes on Arab-Israeli Diplomacy (February 11, 2002) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and a columnist for both the New York Post and The Jerusalem Post. This lecture, given on the campus of Ashland University as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series, focuses on the mistakes made in Arab-Israeli diplomacy.
85. Stephen Knott on Alexander Hamilton (February 25, 2005) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Since the day Aaron Burr fired his fatal shot in July 1804, Americans have tried to come to grips with Alexander Hamilton’s legacy. A controversial figure in his time and ours, Hamilton is often portrayed as the most reactionary member of the founding generation — the man who hoped to foist a crown upon America and called the people a "great beast." Although Hamilton did not advocate the former and probably never said the latter, he remains for many Americans the founding’s villain. Yet the twentieth century, the so-called "American Century," witnessed the culmination of Hamilton’s vision of a consolidated commercial republic capable of wielding military and economic power on a global scale. Why is it that Hamilton, whose vision of American greatness came to pass, remains a contentious figure in the American mind? Stephen Knott is an associate professor and research fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
86. Benjamin Netanyahu on Fighting Terrorism (May 3, 2002) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Benjamin Netanyahu, former prime minister of Israel, addressed the 18th Annual John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner on May 3, 2002 on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.
87. William Bennett on the Politics of War (April 23, 2004) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: William Bennett, former secretary of education and currently a nationally syndicated radio host, addressed the 20th Annual John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner on April 23, 2004 on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.
88. James McPherson on the Battle of Antietam (February 11, 2005) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed—four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In "Crossroads of Freedom," James M. McPherson paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath showing why America’s bloodiest day is, indeed, a turning point in our history. James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of History at Princeton University. This lecture was presented on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Colloquia Series.
89. Matthew Spalding on the Constitution (March 24, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Written constitutionalism implies that those who make, interpret and enforce the law ought to be guided by the original meaning of the supreme law of the land, the United States Constitution. This view came to be seriously eroded over the course of the last century with the rise of the theory of the Constitution as a "living document" with no fixed meaning, subject to changing interpretations according to the spirit of the times. The argument between these approaches is now being voiced in our on-going public debate about the role of judges and the judiciary in American politics. How is the Constitution to be interpreted and understood? Should those who apply the law be bound by the original meaning of the Constitution? How can that meaning be determined? Matthew Spalding is the Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. This lecture was presented on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Colloquia Series.
90. Lamar Alexander on Teaching American History to our Children (March 23, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Lamar Alexander is a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. Prior to serving in the Senate, Alexander served as Governor of Tennessee, President of the University of Tennessee, and as U.S. Secretary of Education. This lecture was presented on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
91. Edwin Meese on Homeland Security (November 6, 2003) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Edwin Meese served as Attorney General during the Reagan Administration, serving as one of the President's most importanta advisors. Mr. Meese is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of United States Studies, University of London. This lecture was presented on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
92. David Hackett Fischer on Liberty and Freedom (October 29, 2004) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: From the Revolution to the War on Terror, Americans have defined our society with the words liberty and freedom. We have held up these ideals as core values in the midst of cultural uncertainty and political strife. But where did these words come from, and how have their meanings changed as America evolved from scattered English colonies to the dizzyingly diverse, multicolored mosaic of the 21st century? In Liberty and Freedom, David Hackett Fischer traces how "liberty" and "freedom" originally meant two different things—yet like DNA, these intertwined ideas have recombined in every generation to shape American culture in fundamental ways. Dr. Fischer is University Professor at Brandeis University. He is renowned as one of America’s most gifted and creative historians and author of such acclaimed volumes as "Albion’s Seed," "The Great Wave," "Paul Revere’s Ride," and "Washington’s Crossing." This lecture was presented on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Colloquia.
93. Ralph Rossum on Antonin Scalia (February 24, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Ralph Rossum is the Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government and the Henry Salvatori Professor of American Constitutionalism at Claremont McKenna College. His most recent book is "Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition." Justice Scalia is an eloquent defender of textualism--an "original meaning" interpretive approach that accords primacy to the text and tradition of the Constitution or the statute being interpreted and that declares it is the duty of the judge to apply that text when it is clear or the specific legal tradition flowing from that text (i.e., what it meant to the society that adopted it) when it is not. Professor Rossum will explore Scalia’s textualist approach to such key structural arrangements as separation of powers and federalism and to such key constitutional provisions as the free speech, press, and religious clauses of the First Amendment. This lecture was presented on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Colloquia.
94. Alan Simpson on Politics (February 15, 2006) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Alan Simpson was U.S. Senator from Wyoming from 1978 to 1996. He has since served as a visiting lecturer at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and has written a book, "Right in the Old Gazoo: A Lifetime of Scrapping with the Press." This lecture was presented on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
95. Bill Sammon on the Presidency of George W. Bush (February 14, 2005) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Bill Sammon is Senior White House Correspondent for the Washington Times, a political analyst for Fox News, and the author of three New York Times bestsellers: "At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election"; "Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the White House"; and "Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry and the Bush Haters." This lecture was presented on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
96. Allen Guelzo on the Emancipation Proclamation (February 27, 2004) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Allen Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. He is a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his books, "Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation" and "Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President." This lecture was presented in the Ashbrook Center on February 27, 2004 as part of the Ashbrook Colloquia series shortly before "Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation" was published.
97. Alice Batchelder on the Constitution (September 16, 2005) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Alice M. Batchelder, a judge on the Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, provided the Constitution Day lecture at the Ashbrook Center on September 16, 2005. Her lecture was entitled "The Judiciary: having 'neither Force nor Will, but merely judgement'?"
98. Steven Hayward on Churchill and Reagan (November 10, 2005) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Steven Hayward's lecture at the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio. Dr. Hayward, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, spoke on his recently published book, "Greatness: Churchill, Reagan, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders." This lecture was delivered on November 10, 2005 as part of the Ashbrook Center's Major Issues Lecture Series.
99. Karl Rove on Conservatism (April 21, 2005) http://www.ashbrook.org/podcas... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff and chief political strategist to President George W. Bush, addressed the 21st Annual John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner on April 21, 2005 on the campus of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.