New from the Witherspoon Institute

4/30/08: Senior Fellow Kevin T. Jackson discusses the argument of his book Building Reputational Capital, saying that business ethics cannot be merely a matter of “compliance,” but rather must be based on “human rights, basic human goods, and natural reason and virtue,” in order to be meaningful.

4/29/08: Harold James is scheduled to speak on Monday, May 5 at Princeton University’s International Relations Faculty Colloquium (12–1:30p.m., Bowl 16 of Robertson Hall) on the topic of “Globalization, Empire, and Natural Law.” Click here for a copy of the paper that he will present.

4/28/08: Senior Fellow John Haldane will be giving a lecture at Princeton University on Wednesday, April 30, at 4:30pm. Entitled “The Need and Implications of Recognizing Humanity,” it will explore how mainstream political philosophers need to consider the topic of the fragility of human life more centrally in their work, particularly in areas such as disabilities, mental disorders, and “ending life” issues.

4/25/08: In The Weekly Standard, staff member Ryan T. Anderson reviews Fellow David Tubbs’s book Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children. Anderson commends the book for pointing out how the “negative liberty” established by contemporary political liberalism in current laws has had a harmful affect on children across society.

4/25/08: Whereas small countries’ economies flourished in the globalization of the 1990s due to their agility and dynamism, Harold James notes that today their economies have been eclipsed by those of much larger nations that have become more globally assertive. He warns, however, that most of those powerful countries face imminent internal instability, which will likely have adverse global economic consequences in the future.

4/23/08: The Witherspoon Institute announces the addition of three professors (Gerard V. Bradley, Kevin T. Jackson, and Daniel N. Robinson) to its roster of Senior Fellows and the appointments of three Doctoral Research Scholars (one postdoctoral scholar and two current Ph.D. candidates) whom the Witherspoon Institute will support in their various projects in the next few years. The Institute also has named Senior Fellow Robert P. George as the Director of the Program in Political Thought and Constitutional Government and Senior Fellow Harold James as the Director of the Program in Ethics, Culture, and Economic Development.

4/22/08: Rethinking Business Management, a book based on the Witherspoon Institute’s past conference of the same name (and the Institute’s first self-published book) is now available for order from our distributor, ISI Books.

4/18/08: Senior Fellow Harold James, observing weaknesses in the current global financial market, sees a cause for concern in the situation of small countries with internationally prominent investment banks. James notes that similar banks in small countries at the beginning of the 1930s are what gave rise to the gravest economic collapses of the Great Depression.

4/16/08: Calling him “Scotland’s best-known philosopher,” the University of Glasgow is awarding Senior Fellow John Haldane the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters.

4/15/08: The Center on Religion and the Constitution is accepting applications for its Summer Scholars Program, intended to support scholars in the publication of academic articles and monographs that further the work of the Center in the field of constitutional philosophy of religion.

4/10/08: For all those interested in the Moral Life and the Classical Tradition Summer Seminar, the deadline for application has been moved back to May 1, 2008.

4/10/08: The audio recordings of the lectures and Question and Answer sessions of the Witherspoon Institute’s November 2007 conference, The Christian Worldview and the Academy, are finally available online. We apologize that, because of unforeseeable difficulties, these files could not be posted sooner. Click here to download or listen to the recordings.

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