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- Conservatives and Liberals in the Academy: Two Upcoming Events at CU this Week
This week the Center of Western Civilization, Thought, and Policy (CWCTP) is hosting two events. The first is a talk by George Yancey, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. He will be speaking on “Conservatives in Academia: Is There Bias Against Them?”. The next day CWCTP will be hosting a panel discussion, “Why Are College Professors Liberal?” Moderated by CWCTP director, Robert Pasnau, the panel will feature Professor Yancey, Joshua Dunn (Professor and Chair of Political Science, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) and David S. Brown (Professor and Chair of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder). - This coming week, on Wed. Feb. 17 and then on Thurs. the 18th, the Conservative Thought and Policy lecture series presents two events. On the 17th, I myself shall give a public lecture, on the acute and ever-growing need for absorbing the
- The Laffer curve--a bell curve looking like a "McDonald's arch on its side," as the great Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley described it--remains the most recognizable economics graph of the last fifty years. Economists and non-
- We are planning a course of talks on the history and significance of supply-side economics--and the tradition of economic growth in this country--beginning in January. Tonight, before an undergraduate audience assembled by the student group The
- The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755Disaster, Enlightenment, Plate Tectonics, Fear of the LordFeaturing author Mark MoleskyWednesday, Nov. 11, 20156:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.Hellems Room 252University of Colorado BoulderFree and open to the public.Click here
- Tomorrow afternoon and evening, on Wednesday, October 28, the fourteen Republican candidates will be debating at CU’s Coors Events center. A number of students shall be in attendance – I am bringing four. CNBC-TV is the broadcaster, and my co-author