Schedule
All meetings are at 7:30 in the Peucinian Room unless otherwise noted
Fall Semester 2008:
Thursday, September 11: Disputation Session XV.
Resolved: Too many of us are choosing financial careers.
Affirmative: Mr. Archibald Abrams, Negative: Mr. Samuel Smith
Thursday, September 18: Disputation Session XVI.
Resolved: The war in Iraq is a failure.
Affirmative: Mr. Andrew Edwards, Negative: Mr. John Cunningham
Thursday, September 25: Dr. David Singh Grewal, Harvard University.
"Network Power: The Nation-State in the Internet Age"
Thursday, October 2:
7:00 p.m: Diane Ravitch: "The Perils of School Reform," Pickard Theater (Optional)
9:00 p.m.: Vice-Presidential Debate, Kresge Auditorium (optional)
Tuesday, October 7: Bill McClay, Professor of History and Humanities. University of Tennessee: Lecture on the Problem of the Self in America
4:00 p.m., Massachusetts Hall, followed by dinner
Thursday, October 9: Disputation Session XVII.
Resolved: Science is impoverishing the Soul.
Affirmative: Mr. Benjamin Stern and Mr. Ross Jacobs, Negative: Mr. Julian Chryssavgis and Mr. Bryant Johnson
Thursday, October 16: Disputation Session XVIII.
Resolved: Environmentalism is the transcendent political challenge of our age. Affirmative: Mr. Wesley Hartwell, Negative: TBD
Thursday, October 23: Disputation Session XIX.
Resolved: Obama would be a more successful president than McCain.
Affirmative: Mr. Benjamin Freedman, Negative: Mr. Kyle Ritter
Thursday, October 30: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Lecture.
Dr. James Poulos, Georgetown Government Department,
"World Citizenship: Solidarity, Friendship, and Citizenship"
Wednesday, November 5: William Kristol, Editor, Weekly Standard, and William Galston, Brookings Institute
"The Future of the American Presidency"
Thursday, November 6: Disputation Session XX.
Resolved: Popular music is destroying our society.
Affirmative: Mr. Hassan Muhammad, Negative: Mr. Michael Corbelle
Thursday, November 13: Jeremy Rabkin, Cornell University and George Mason University.
"Defending American Sovereignty." To be followed by debate.
Thursday, November 20: Professor Timothy Fuller
"Michael Oakeshott's Legacy"
Thursday, December 4: Treatise Assembly.
Mr. Jeffrey Jeng:
"The Problem of Relativism in Academia"
Thursday, December 11: Disputation Session XXI.
Resolved: Socialism is dead.
Affirmative: TBA, Negative: Ms. Erica Camarena
Spring Semester 2008:
