The 60th Anniversary Of God and Man at Yale
Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, Room 101
Schedule
2:00-3:00 - The History of God and Man at Yale
- Lee Edwards, Professor Gaddis Smith, and Professor Alvin Felzenberg
- Moderated by Professor Ted Malloch
3:15-4:15 - The Crisis in Higher Education: Is God and Man at Yale Relevant Today?
- R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Midge Decter, and Roger Kimball
- Moderated by Professor Charles Kesler
4:30-5:30 - Buckley's Legacy: How Would the Patron Saint Turbo-Charge Conservatism?
- William Kristol, Rich Lowry, and Neal Freeman
- Moderated by Linda Bridges
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Speaker Bios
Lee Edwards - Lee Edwards is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an adjunct professor of politics at the Catholic University of America. He was the founding director of the Institute of Political Journalism at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. A leading historian of American conservatism, Dr. Edwards is the author or editor of 20 books, including most recently a biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. Dr. Edwards was also one of the founding members of Young America's Foundation.
George Gaddis Smith '54, '61 PhD - Gaddis Smith is the Larned Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and an expert on American foreign relations and maritime history. He has authored over 200 articles, essays and reviews in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, and various historical journals. Professor Smith, who also serves as an unofficial Yale historian, has also published six books on subjects ranging from the submarines of Britain during the First World War to the diplomacy pursued in Washington during the Second World War.
Alvin S. Felzenberg - Alvin Felzenberg is an American presidential historian and political commentator who was Principal Spokesman for the 9/11 Commission. He serves as a senior staffer to the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress. Professor Felzenberg was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also currently a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard and The National Review and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania and George Washington University.
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch - Ted Malloch serves as Research Professor for the Spiritual Capital Initiative at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He is chairman and chief executive of The Roosevelt Group, a leading strategic management and thought leadership company. He has served on the board of the World Economic Forum and in an ambassadorial level position with the United Nations in Geneva. He has taught at a number of leading colleges and universities, he appears frequently on television and in print, and has published numerous books, including most recently Thrift: Rebirth of a Forgotten Virtue and Being Generous.
R. Emmett Tyrrell - Bob Tyrell is the founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator. He is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recently work is After the Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Recovery. Mr. Tyrell makes frequent appearances on national television and is a columnist whose articles have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Harper'sMagazine.
Midge Decter - Midge Decter is one of the original drivers of the neoconservative movement. She previously served as executive editor of Harper's Magazine and as executive director of the Committee for the Free World. Ms. Decter was a frequent contributor to Commentary Magazine, and numerous others publications, including The National Review. She is also longtime member of the board of the Heritage Foundation.
Roger Kimball MA '77 MPhil '82 - Roger Kimball is a conservative art critic and social commentator well-known for his books on liberal influences in academia, including Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education, and Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse. He serves as co-editor and co-publisher of The New Criterion magazine, as the president and publisher of Encounter Books, and as a board member of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Mr. Kimball also writes frequently for many publications, including National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Spectator, and The New York Times Book Review. Along with Linda Bridges, he edited the newly released Athwart History, a collection of Buckley's essays.
Professor Charles Kesler - Charles Kesler is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and editor of the Claremont Review of Books. He also teaches in the Claremont Institute's Publius Fellows Program and Lincoln Fellows Program. Professor Kesler is editor of Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding, co-editor with William F. Buckley Jr. of Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought, and a regular contributor to the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. His edition of The Federalist Papers is the best-selling edition in the country.
William Kristol - William Kristol is the founder and editor of The Weekly Standard and frequently appears as a political analyst and commentator on the Fox News Channel. Before starting The Weekly Standard, Mr. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future and served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle. He was also a co-founder of the Foreign Policy Initiative and Project for the New American Century, and currently serves as a board member of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the Institute for the Study of War.
Rich Lowry - Rich Lowry is the current editor of National Review, which was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and a variety of other publications. He is also a syndicated columnist and a commentator for the Fox News Channel and is known for his New York Times bestseller Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.
Neal Freeman '62 - Neal Freeman is chairman and founder of the Blackwell Corporation, an advisory firm with clients in communications, defense, and wealth management. An award-winning television producer, Mr. Freeman was appointed by President Reagan to serve as Director of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He has written for The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and National Review, among others.
Linda Bridges - Linda Bridges spent thirty years in the editorial department of National Review, including ten years as managing editor, before becoming Buckley's literary assistant. In that capacity she copy-edited his writing and helped with the research for his books. She is the author of many articles, mostly on food, travel, and music, and is the co-author of both The Art of Persuasion: A National Review Rhetoric for Writers and, more recently, Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Conservative Movement. She, along with Roger Kimball, edited the newly released Athwart History, a collection of Buckley's essays.