The Future of American Education and Politics
8th Annual Conference on Politics, Religion, Culture, and Community
Berry College
March 31, 2005
Should America Have a Democratic or Republican Future?
"A Debate Between William Galston and Harvey Mansfield"
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Other Featured Speakers
Naomi Schaefer Riley is an adjunct fellow for the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the editor of the new journal In Character. She is also a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and National Review. Her new book God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges Are Changing America is the first to explore the explosion of interest in religious colleges. |
John Seery has been teaching politics at Pomona College since 1990. He has published articles and op-eds on a wide range of topics, from Grant Wood’s American Gothic to abortion politics. His most recent book is America Goes to College: Political Theory for the Liberal Arts. |
Conference Schedule
| 11:00 | Alumni Lunch, Oak Hill Gift Shop and Sam Crowe (1998), “Biotechnology and Human Dignity.” |
| 12:15 | Student Symposium Participants: "Constitutional Challenges to the Rhetoric of Diversity" - Kelly Walsh "Right to Privacy in Abortion Case Law" - Sara Hinson "How American Religion Resists Democratization" - Elizabeth Amato "The End of the Road - Possible solutions to the dilemma of philosophy in the post-historical age" - Joshua Lee "Election 2004: What the Democrats Did Wrong" - Jennifer Hofstetter |
| 2:00 | America Goes to College author John Seery Michael Papazian (Berry) and Carl Scott (Fordham University) |
| 4:00 | God on the Quad author Naomi Schaefer Riley Paul Seaton (Fordham University) |
| 7:30 | Debate: Should America Have a Democratic or Republican Future? Moderator: Peter Lawler (Berry) Participants: Bill Galston and Harvey Mansfield Expert Questioners: Scott Colley (Berry College) and Don Wagner (West Georgia) |
| 9:00 | Reception (location to be announced) |
*All sessions held in the Berry College Science Auditorium*
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Sponsored by:
- Berry College
- Oglethorpe University
- University of West Georgia
- The Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- The Arthur N. Rupe Foundation
Attention students and faculty: If you are interested in participating in the conference as a presenter, please contact Peter Lawler as soon as possible as plawler@berry.edu
For more information on the conference, lodging, or anything else, please contact Peter Lawler or Kelly Walsh.










Bill Galston is Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and the Interim Dean for the Maryland School of Public Policy. He was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the first Clinton Administration and Executive Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal. He was also senior advisor to Albert Gore during his run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Since 1995, Galston has served as a founding member of the Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as chair of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values. His most recent book is Liberal Pluralism.
Harvey Mansfield studies and teaches political philosophy at Harvard. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. Along with Delba Winthrop, he also translated Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and was recently named a member of the Council of the American Political Science Association.