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This debate features two authors, Michael Strain from the American Enterprise Institute and David Leonhardt, New York Times, with opposing positions on the contemporary viability of the American Dream. “The Morning.”

Dr. Robert P. George holds Princeton’s celebrated McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence and is the Founder and Director of the University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

In this lecture, brothers Hyrum Lewis, Brigham Young University, Idaho, and Verlan Lewis, Utah Valley University, will discuss how, contrary to popular and scholarly belief, there are no durable political philosophies behind our political categories of liberal and conservative and left and right.

On Friday, April 12, we dedicated the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee to a new mission: educating the next generation of skilled public problem solvers, grounded in the legacy of Howard Baker, and prepared to take public leadership roles in their communities.

The United States is at a critical juncture for its foreign policy

The Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs and the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, welcomed a pair of national pundits – Michael Strain, director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Matthew Yglesias, independent columnist — to discuss economics and the 2024…

In celebration of Constitution Day, the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, hosted Keith Whittington, the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School.