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Our special fall issue introduces the Third Founding Initiative, an Institute project that calls for a renewal of engagement with America’s civic culture and institutions. Coming November 1.
The Rodel Institute is delighted to announce that James Davison Hunter’s book, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis, has won the 2025 Edwards Book Award. The prize will be conferred on September 25th at the University of...
For his book, The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order, John M. Owen IV has been awarded the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for World Order. The prestigious award is presented annually to scholars who “have taken on issues of world importance and...
At the end of each year, New York Times columnist David Brooks announces his “Sidney Awards,” which celebrate the best long-form journalism published in the previous twelve months. The awards honor and publicize essays that raise important questions about major issues...
Senior Fellow Angel Adams Parham and Annika Prather, co-authors of The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature, offer a spirited defense of classical education against those who claim that the tradition must be set aside to avoid...
Matthew Crawford spoke with BBC Radio 4 Today presenter Justin Webb for a February 6 2023 segment. Titled “Driverless cars: a loss of human autonomy?” the interview explored our tech future and its potential consequences. In the interview, Crawford explains: I think...