William F. Buckely Jr. Program at Yale: “Edmund Burke, the First Modern Conservative”

Event time: 
Friday, September 28, 2018 - 12:30pm
Location: 
William L. Harkness Hall, Room 116 See map
100 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The William F. Buckely Jr. Program at Yale presents:

Dr. Stephen Hayward, fellow with the American Enterprise Institute for 10 years, senior scholar at Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, and author of many famous books on environmental policy, economic growth, and Ronald Reagan: “Edmund Burke, the First Modern Conservative.”

This inaugural lecture will be on conservatism today and its interlocutors. Dr. Hayward will be discussing the current political landscape, the different strains of political ideology in the country, and what the political future holds.

All lectures will be held on Thursday afternoons and are open to the public.

Conservatism, which has always come in several discrete forms (libertarian, traditionalist/”paleoconservative,” religious, “neoconservative,” etc.) is under fresh strain with the rise of Trumpian populism. This lecture and seminar series will begin at the beginning, with a survey of basic conservative principles and some of its leading thinkers, building up to a more comprehensive engagement with contemporary issues of justice, equality, identity, and social policy.

Taught by Dr. Steven F. Hayward, this not-for-credit seminar will include five sessions of two hours over the course of the fall semester.

There will be a moderate amount of reading for the seminar. Students will receive the readings in advance and be expected to complete them prior to each session. The seminar is open to Yale undergraduates and graduate students. Upon successful completion, students will receive a $150 stipend.

The seminar will meet over lunch at 12:30pm on September 7th, September 28th, October 26th, and November 9th, as well as over dinner on November 28th.

These seminars will supplement the lectures offered by Dr. Hayward. Admission to the seminar is by application.

About the lecturer: Steven F. Hayward is currently senior resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, and a visiting lecturer at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall Law School. He was previously the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy, and was the inaugural visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2013-14. From 2002 to 2012 he was the F.K Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, and has been senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco since 1991.

He writes frequently for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Claremont Review of Books, and other publications. The author of six books including a two-volume chronicle of Reagan and his times entitled The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980, and The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989, and the Almanac of Environmental Trends. His most recent book is Patriotism is Not Enough: Harry Jaffa, Walter Berns, and the Arguments That Redefined American Conservatism. He writes daily on Powerlineblog.com, one of the nation’s most read political websites.

Admission: 
Free but register in advance
Open to: 
Yale Community Only