2018 APSA Annual Meeting Schedule

For over twenty years the Claremont Institute has sponsored panels at the American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting. Addressing politics, history, & political philosophy, our panels bring together some of America’s leading intellectuals. For a text version of the schedule, see below. For an easy-to-print PDF version, click here.

In addition to our panels, please join us on Friday, August 31 between 7:30 and 9pm for our annual Claremont Institute APSA reception in the Marriott, Simmons room.

Trade, Immigration, and Trumpist Political Economy—Thursday, August 30, 8:00 AM
Room: Sheraton, Fairfax B
Chair: John Kienker, Claremont Institute
Panel: Julius Krein, American Affairs
         Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo, Texas State University
         Arthur Milikh, Heritage Foundation
         Jeremy Rabkin, George Mason Law School

Is Political Science Useless for Understanding Politics?—Thursday, August 30, 10:00 AM
Room: Sheraton, Fairfax B
Chair: Adam Carrington, Hillsdale College
Panel: James Ceaser, University of Virginia
         Daniel DiSalvo, City University of New York
         Jennifer Merolla, University of California-Riverside
         Jennifer Selin, University of Missouri

Individualism and Community in Political Philosophy—Thursday, August 30, 12:00 PM
Room: Sheraton, Back Bay D
Chair: Nasser Behnegar, Boston College
Papers: Rachel Alexander, Baylor University
         “Aristotle’s Inquiry into Beginnings in the Ethics”
         Sarah Onken, Hillsdale College
         “Aristotle’s Best Regime Simply”
         Alex Orwin, Louisiana State University
         “The Path from Group Feeling to Royal Authority in Ibn Khaldun”
         Heather Pangle, Boston College
         “Tocqueville and Mill on the Democratic Franchise in 19th Century France and England”
Disc.: Paul Carrese, Arizona State University
         Khalil Habib, Salve Regina University

Liberalism and Its Conservative Critics—Thursday, August 30, 2:00 PM
Room: Sheraton, Fairfax B
Chair: Matthew Peterson, Claremont Institute
Panel: Paul DeHart, Texas State University
         Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College
         Matthew Peterson, Claremont Institute
         Richard Reinsch, Liberty Fund

Liberty and Constitutionalism in Early American Political Thought—Thursday, August 30, 4:00 PM
Room: Hynes, 205
Chair: J. David Alvis, Wofford College
Papers: Robert Burton, University of Notre Dame
         “Tocqueville, Religious Liberty, and the Nexus of Freedom”
         Zachary German, University of Notre Dame
         “The Great Question of Constitutionalism: Montesquieu and the Anti-Federalists”
         Joseph Griffith, Baylor University
         “The Voice of Nature and the Parent-Child Relationship: An American,
         Common-Law Understanding of the Right of Parents to Direct their Children’s Education”
         Charles Zug, University of Texas-Austin
         “Daniel Shays and the Question of Oligarchy at the American Founding”
Disc.: Ronald Pestritto, Hillsdale College
         Elizabeth Eastman

What’s the Matter with Congress?—Friday, August 31, 8:00 AM
Room: Sheraton, Fairfax B
Chair: Joseph Postell, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
Panel: Michael Uhlmann, Claremont Institute
         Philip Wallach, R Street Institute
         Michael Franc, Hoover Institution
         Gregory Weiner, Assumption College

Politics and the Modern University—Friday, August 31, 10:00 AM
Room: Sheraton, Fairfax B
Chair: Guy Burnett, Hampden-Sydney College
Panel: Michael Anton, Hillsdale College
         Joshua Dunn, University of Colorado-
         Colorado Springs
         Shep Melnick, Boston College
         Bradley C.S. Watson, Saint Vincent College

Natural Right in the Civil War and Reconstruction—Friday, August 31, 12:00 PM
12:00-1:30 pm in Sheraton, Fairfax B
Chair: Christopher Wolfe, University of Dallas
Papers: Alan Levine, American University
         “Natural Right and Anti-Natural Right Arguments in Antebellum America”
         Lucas Morel, Washington and Lee University
         “Lincoln and the Founders”
         Diana Schaub, Loyola
         “Lincoln and the Dred Scott Decision”
         James Stoner, Louisiana State University
         “Why did Reconstruction Fail?”
Disc.: Thomas Merrill, American University
         Pamela Brandwein, University of Michigan

Harry Jaffa’s Legacy at 100 Years—Friday, August 31, 2:00 PM
Room: Hynes, 101
Chair: Jason Jividen, Saint Vincent College
Panel: James Ceaser, University of Virginia
         Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College
         Charles Kesler, Claremont Institute
         Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University
         Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame

The New Left and Identity Politics—Friday, August 31, 4:00 PM
Room: Sheraton, Berkeley
Chair: Luigi Bradizza, Salve Regina University
Papers: David Azerrad, Heritage Foundation
         “The Paradoxes of Identity Politics”
         Devin Fernandes, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
         “The Ford Foundation, MALDEF, and Third-Party Funding in Mexican-American Advocacy”
         Peter Myers, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
         “Color-Blindness in the Post-Civil Rights Era”
         Christina Villegas, Cal State-San Bernardino
         “A Conflict of Ends: Post-1960s Feminism and the
         Rejection of American Constitutionalism”
Disc.: Lucas Morel, Washington & Lee University

Religion in American Political Thought and Practice—Saturday, September 1, 8:00 AM
Room: Hynes, 203
Chair: David Schaefer, College of the Holy Cross
Papers: Justin Dyer, University of Missouri
         “The Political Theology of the American Founding”
         Deborah O’Malley, Princeton University
         “Corporations as Religious Associations? The Challenge of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby”
         Peter Cross, Hillsdale College
         “John A. Ryan and the Natural-Rights Approach to Progressive Social Justice”
         James Patterson, Ave Maria University
         “When Liberalism Succeeded: Roman Catholic Engagements with the American Founding”
Disc.: Geoffrey Vaughan, Assumption College

U.S. Supreme Court: Review of the Recent Term and the Future of the Court—Saturday, September 1, 12:00 PM
Room: Sheraton, Berkeley
Chair: Bradley C.S. Watson, Saint Vincent College
Panel: John Eastman, Chapman Law School
         Matthew Franck, Witherspoon Institute
         Gary Lawson, Boston University Law School
         Anthony Peacock, Utah State University

The 2018 Midterm Elections and the Future of American Politics—Saturday, September 1, 4:00 PM
Room: Sheraton, Fairfax B
Chair: Lindsay Eberhardt, Claremont Institute
Panel: Morris Fiorina, Stanford
         Sara Hagedorn, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
         Henry Olsen, Ethics and Public Policy Center
         Matthew Spalding, Hillsdale College

Populism in American Politics and the Rise of Trump—Sunday, September 2, 8:00 AM
Room: Marriott, Boylston
Chair: Ryan Williams, Claremont Institute
Panel: Chris Buskirk, American Greatness
         William Galston, Brookings Institution
         Jon Shields, Claremont-McKenna College
         Ryan Williams, Claremont Institute