“The Myth of the Sovereign Self”

A lecture by Jean Bethke Elshtain

When: Thursday, October 2, 2008 | 4:00–5:30 p.m.

Where: Watson Manor, 3 University Circle, Charlottesville, VA

Professor Elshtain, of the University of Chicago, will deliver a talk based on her 2006 Gifford Lectures titled “Sovereign God, Sovereign State, Sovereign Self.”

Free and open to the public. Contact Jenny Gladding for more information.

“Bowling Alone, or Online Together?”

Virginia Club of New York hosts Felicia Wu Song

When: Monday, September 22, 2008 | 6:30 p.m.

Where: Virginia Club of New York at The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, NYC

Dinner and discussion will be led by Felicia Wu Song, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and a former fellow of the Institute.

Contact Ashley Berner to make a reservation ($35 suggested donation) and for further details.

The Hedgehog Review (Order here)

“Politics and the Media,” The Hedgehog Review’s Summer 2008 issue, investigates how the news media shape the political process and are, in turn, shaped by it. Read more in the introduction and order the issue.

Interested in a particular essay? You can now purchase individual essays for just $2 each using our online order form.

Culture (Order here)

From our Spring 2008 issue, read a review essay of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age written by IASC Director Slavica Jakelić: “Moral Consensus in a Secular Age.”