Events

Upcoming Events

• Center for Civic Thought Open House

  September 8, 2026 4:00 pm—5:00 pm

• When to compromise? When to stand your ground?: Case studies from America’s first 250 years

  September 23, 2026 5:00 pm—7:00 pm

• How do you change your mind?, Eric Liu (Citizen University)

  October 16, 2026 1:00 pm—2:30 pm

• Can ordinary citizens do the work of governing better than politicians?, Hélène Landemore (Yale University)

  November 20, 2026 1:00 pm—2:30 pm

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• What should the future of conservatism in America be?, Ross Douthat (The New York Times)

  April 20, 2026 12:30 pm—2:00 pm

• Can we ever go home? Place, belonging, and the future of rural America, with Jeffrey Tyler Syck (University of Pikesville)

  April 17, 2026 2:00 pm—3:30 pm

• New Haven as Athens?: Fulfilling the promise of democracy, here and now, with Cynthia Farrar (Purple States LLC) & Josiah Ober (Stanford University)

  April 15, 2026 12:30 pm—2:00 pm

• Can we face the injustices in our history and still love our country?, with Professor Beverly Gage (Yale University)

  April 13, 2026 5:00 pm—6:30 pm

• Institutional neutrality in higher education: virtue or vice? with John Tomasi (Heterodox Academy) and Professor Michael Strambler (Yale University)

  April 6, 2026 5:00 pm—6:30 pm

• Is meritocracy a trap?, with Professor Daniel Markovits (Yale University) & Dean Jeremiah Quinlan (Yale University)

  March 30, 2026 5:00 pm—6:30 pm

• How should we remember the civil rights movement?, with Professor Brandon Terry (Harvard University)

  March 27, 2026 12:00 pm—1:30 pm

• Do we know how to talk to humans?, with Professor Jad Abumrad (Vanderbilt University)

  March 26, 2026 12:30 pm—2:00 pm

• The Radical Fund and the Lost Origins of American Liberalism, with Professor John Witt (Yale University)

  March 5, 2026 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

• Has college become too individualistic? Could it be rebuilt around a common life?, with Laura Marcus (Tidelines Institute)

  March 2, 2026 5:00 pm—6:30 pm

• Fellows Intensive: Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

  February 21, 2026 1:00 pm—4:30 pm

• Fellows Intensive: Constitutional Democracy in America at 250

  February 21, 2026 9:00 am—12:30 pm

• From The Unwinding to The Emergency with George Packer (The Atlantic), co-sponsored by Grace Hopper College

  February 19, 2026 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

• Can the Faculty Lead the Contemporary University?, with Professor Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt University)

  February 12, 2026 12:30 pm—2:00 pm

• Is there a civic remedy for the restless soul?, with Jenna Storey (American Enterprise Institute)

  February 9, 2026 12:30 pm—2:00 pm

• Does love have a future?, with Samuel Kimbriel (Aspen Institute)

  February 6, 2026 12:30 pm—2:00 pm

• Are "We the People" still capable of constitutional reform?, with Professor Jill Lepore (Harvard University, The New Yorker)

  February 5, 2026 12:30 pm—2:00 pm

• Fellows Intensive: The Role of Universities in Civic Life

  January 31, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm

• Universities and Humility, with Professor Andrew Delbanco (Teagle Foundation, Columbia University)

  January 22, 2026 4:15 pm—5:45 pm

• Fellows Intensive: Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

  December 5, 2025 1:00 pm—5:00 pm

• The Media Fracture, with Governor Christopher Christie

  December 4, 2025 11:30 am—1:00 pm

• A Conversation on Capital Punishment, with Elizabeth Bruenig (The Atlantic), co-sponsored by Grace Hopper College

  December 3, 2025 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

• How should universities think about pluralism?, with Laurie Patton (American Academy of Arts & Sciences)

  December 3, 2025 9:00 am—10:30 am

• Fellows Intensive: The Role of Universities in Civic Life

  November 21, 2025 1:00 pm—5:00 pm

• Fellows Intensive: Constitutional Democracy in America at 250

  November 15, 2025 1:00 pm—5:00 pm

• Reforming universities through executive action: A view from the White House, with Daniel Wasserman '19

  November 3, 2025 5:00 pm—6:30 pm

• Should Universities Reform Themselves? An Opening Discussion, with Professor Beverly Gage (Yale University)

  October 28, 2025 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

• One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal, with Professor Nicholas Buccola (Claremont McKenna College)

  October 10, 2025 12:30 pm—2:00 pm

• Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump, with Professor Molly Worthen (UNC-Chapel Hill)

  September 19, 2025 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

• Rediscovering the Civic Constitution: Beyond Veneration and Legalism to Citizenship

  September 17, 2025 4:30 pm—8:00 pm