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Dr. R. J. Snell, Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute, spoke on February 15, 2020 at the Friendship, Love and Happiness Conference sponsored by the Scala Foundation and the Thomistic Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary. He gave a talk entitled “Demons at the Feast of Love: Concupiscence, Benevolence and Transcendence” which you can view here:

Chen Guancheng, distinguished senior fellow in human rights at the Witherspoon Institute and faculty member of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America, wrote an article for the Washington Post about the role the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarianism has played in the coronavirus outbreak. Read it here. 

I have long said the Chinese Communist Party is a threat to humanity. Now, with the outbreak spreading from Wuhan to the far reaches of the globe, the regime has again proved itself a danger to civilization. It has succeeded in turning a public health crisis into a human rights catastrophe. The first victims are always the Chinese people themselves, but the rest of the world will pay a price for the CCP’s habits as well.

Recently, Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and senior fellow of The Witherspoon Institute and R. J. Snell, Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute, were interviewed on the New Books on Christian Studies podcast about their 2018 book Mind, Heart and Soul: Intellectuals and the Path to Rome.

Listen to their conversation here.

Join renowned scholars Robert P. George, Candace Vogler, Anna Moreland, Chris Tollefsen and others in Princeton and DC for our 2020 summer seminars! The application deadline is February 11th.

We have seminars for high school students, undergraduates, graduate students and young professionals. Learn more here, and apply today!

This spring semester, we are excited to announce four seminars for Princeton students: on C. S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain, a series on disputed questions, a three-part exploration of nostalgia and the quest for home, and a seminar for women on the moral vision of Jane Austen.

For more information about each of these seminars, including dates and times, visit our Academic Year Seminars page.

We will be holding an intersession seminar for Princeton undergraduate and graduate students on integralism and liberalism. We will try to understand the nature of the common good, political freedom, and why liberalism seems defunct to some. This controversy is a live one among many, especially younger thinkers, and has implications for conceptions of freedom, morality, religion, family, authority, and more.

When: Thursday, January 23 at 6:00pm
What: Dinner and Discussion