TODAY, Tuesday, April 23, 2013, for the first in a series of three Annual Charles E. Test, M.D. Distinguished Lectures, presented by the James Madison Program.  Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago, and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies [...]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO OF THIS LECTURE   PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ADMISSION IS FREE (you don’t have to log-in to register)   Tuesday, September 25 2012 3:30 p.m. Baylor Science Building, D110 “The Dark Night and the Saint” explores the moral world of Gotham City and the late Roman Empire through [...]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW “WHY WE NEED THE WORD EVIL” BY JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN

The Tocqueville Forum is pleased to announce that Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain will receive the fifth annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. Award for Teaching and Humane Letters. This award, generously supported by Michael Maibach – a former student of Father Schall – and The Maibach Fund, has been created to honor individuals who exemplify [...]

Elshtain joins Baylor institute. Jean Bethke Elshtain, recent recipient of the Democracy Service Medal from the National Endowment for Democracy, has joined the Baylor University faculty as visiting distinguished professor of religion and public life at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion. Elshtain—a prolific author—also serves as the Laura Spelman Rockefeller professor of social and [...]

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WIA REPORT WEBSITE Jean Bethke Elshtain was named Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Public Life at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. She holds the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Chair in Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Professor Elshtain taught at [...]

CLICK HERE To View the Video of this Lecture ATTENDANCE IS FREE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER October 19, 2011 Baylor University 3:00 p.m. Kayser Auditorium Introduction by Dr. Elizabeth Davis, Executive Vice President and Provost Special Announcement: On October 13, 2011, Jean Bethke Elshtain won the prestigious Democracy Service Medal from the National Endowment for [...]

Oct. 14, 2011 – Baylor Media Communications Elshtain will present Oct. 19 lecture at Baylor on “The Ups and Downs of a Christian Philosopher” Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain, one of America’s foremost public intellectuals and recent recipient of the prestigious Democracy Service Medal from the National Endowment for Democracy, has joined the Baylor University faculty [...]