Debating the Freedoms America Promotes (video)
On October 18, 2012 a panel of noted experts with differing points of view debated the question “Is the Promotion of International LGBT Rights Given Greater Priority than the Promotion of International Religious Freedom?”. Specifically, the participants considered (1) whether the active promotion of LGBT rights around the world has diminished the United States’ dedication to [...]
America Through European Eyes: Looking at Europe Looking at US
On September 6, 2012 CSS hosted a conversation with Alan Levine (American University) who examined both historical and modern European views of America. What have Europeans gotten right—and wrong—and could modern Europeans learn from the classical liberal example of this still-young nation? Joshua Mitchell of Georgetown University responded as a discussant. The idea of America has fascinated the [...]
America the Beautiful?
On May 21, 2012, CSS hosted a discussion with Roger Scruton on the importance of aesthetics in public life. In Democracy in America, Alexis d’Tocqueville remarked that Americans’ “taste for the useful predominate over [their] love of the beautiful.” A look at the modern American city, complete with its ubiquitous sky scrapers and brutalist concrete structures, and [...]
Debating Non-Interventionism in U.S. Foreign Policy (video)
On November 3, 2011, CSS hosted a forum about the use of military force and America’s proper role in the world. Watch video of the event: Special thanks to National Review Institute for supporting this event. Forum participants: Lindsey Graham (R-SC) United States Senator Kurt Volker Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Jamie Fly Executive Director, [...]
Reagan v. Buckley: Debating American Foreign Policy (video)
On October 6, 2011, we joined the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes, Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, and Heritage Foundation historian Lee Edwards for a theater screening and discussion about the famed 1978 Buckley-Reagan debate. The event was held in the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Auditorium. Special Thanks to the Hoover Institution for providing archived video footage for [...]
The Legacy of Ronald Reagan (video)
A discussion with Ronald Reagan’s special advisor and Attorney General Ed Meese moderated by the president’s speechwriter, Peggy Noonan about the life and legacy of Reagan, and how he thought about this part of the world. How did Reagan view America’s role in the future freedom of captive nations? What were his expectations regarding this [...]
Hungary’s New Constitution: Prospects for the Rule of Law & Liberty in New Europe
At this critical juncture, Hungary has the chance to provide a model for proper constitutionalism in Europe. To fail, in the words of Alexander Hamilton, would be a “general misfortune for mankind.” Americans are watching with expectation Hungary’s new experiment in establishing good government. The event was co-sponsored by the Hungarian American Coalition and the [...]