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CanaVox, Witherspoon’s grassroots marriage and family initiative, has launched a new curriculum for college students, graduates, and young professionals to help them discuss academic research on sexual integrity and issues that affect friendship, dating, marriage and family.

Learn more here!

Witherspoon Research Scholar Sherif Girgis, faculty member of the Natural Law and Public Affairs seminar, and Professor Anna Moreland of Villanova University, faculty member of the First Principles seminar, will both be speaking at the Love and Fidelity Network online conference “Sexuality, Integrity and the University” October 16-17, 2020. This yearly conference brings together hundreds of students, scholars, and experts from across the country to help form college students with the best arguments needed to bring the message of love and fidelity to college campuses. Similarly, one of the aims central to the work of the Witherspoon Institute is helping students and families understand human action and the human good in order to provide a basis to examine friendship, sexuality, and relationship. We highly recommend participating in the Love and Fidelity Network’s conference.

Sherif Girgis will be speaking with his wife, Gabby Girgis, on “Real Talk about Marriage: PhD’s and the Baby Carriage.”

Professor Moreland will be speaking on “Remedying Romantic Chaos in College.”

To learn more and to register for this conference, please visit the Love and Fidelity Network website page.

Candace Vogler, director of the Witherspoon Institute’s summer Thomistic Seminar, will lead a new seminar series with David Brooks of the New York Times entitled “On Liberty for a New Generation.”

“Members of older generations have begun to express concerns that [Generation Z – individuals born after the mid 1990s] will be the source of a stultifying new moralizing orthodoxy that will not allow for full freedom of thought and expression.  In short, at their best, they are very like the people John Stuart Mill championed in his essay, On Liberty, and, at the worst, they are a potential source of newly minted customary norms of the kind he was trying to combat.”

To find out more and to register for this seminar, please visit the website.

Michael C. Maibach, Trustee of the Witherspoon Institute and Distinguished Fellow on American Federalism at Save Our States, recently appeared in a fascinating new documentary on the Founders’ Electoral College design. “Safeguard: An Electoral College Story” takes a non-partisan approach as it examines timely questions, including:  How does the Electoral College work?  Why did the Founders reject a national popular vote?  How does the Electoral College protect minority rights?  Would a national popular vote mean that major cities would rule?

Watch the trailer on YouTube here.

Watch the whole documentary on Amazon.

Witherspoon Distinguished Senior Fellow in Human Rights, Chen Guangcheng, spoke at the Republican National Convention at the end of August. He used this honor and national platform to draw attention to the human rights violations that are perpetrated by the Chinese government and to praise the great liberties enjoyed in the United States.

See a Reuters video here, and a transcription of his remarks here.