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Is the American Dream Dying? Thursday, March 21st at 5:30 p.m. | Toyota Auditorium, Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs 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.” Kaylee McGhee,…

The Truth-Seeking Mission of the University Thursday, February 29th at 5:30 p.m. | Toyota Auditorium, Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs 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 his lecture at…

The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America Thursday, April 25th at 5:30 p.m. | Toyota Auditorium, Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs 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,…

APRIL 12, 2024 Dedication 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. Many…

The Future of America’s International Alliances and Partnerships The United States is at a critical juncture for its foreign policy. As U.S. policymakers confront long-term strategic competition with China, major wars in Europe and the Middle East are unfolding. How the next U.S. administration and Congress address these key challenges will define America’s global leadership…

Can the Presidential Candidates’ Plans Deliver Economic Prosperity? 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…

Originalism, the Roberts Court, and the Future of Constitutional Interpretation 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.  An audience of…