Reading Groups and Current Events Discussions
We welcome new proposals for student-run reading groups: contact heather.wilford@yale.edu
Hannah Arendt (2025)
Undirected Studies (2024-2025)
The Loneliness Epidemic (2024)
The State and Global Order (2024)
Yale Political Theory Reading Group (2021-2024)
10/7 and the War in Gaza (2023)
The Russo-Ukraine War: Causes and Consequences (2022)
Hans Jonas (2021)
Meritocracy, Aristocracy, and America’s Elite (2021)
Free Speech (2021)
The 2020 Presidential Election
Colloquia
For information about upcoming events, contact heather.wilford@yale.edu
Fall 2024
Aaron MacLean (Hudson Institute) – “Interventionism vs Isolationism in American Strategy”
Steven Engel (Department of Justice) – “Presidents and the Law”
Luciano Floridi (Yale University) – “On the Future of Content in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
Laura-Kristine Krause (More in Common Germany) – “How Best to Combat Polarization?”
Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth University) & Yuval Levin (American Enterprise Institute) – “What Just Happened? The Significance of the 2024 Presidential Election”
2023-2024
Pericles Lewis (Yale University) – “College and Citizenship”
Diana Schaub (Loyola University Maryland) – “Learning to Love Lincoln: Frederick Douglass’s Journey from Grievance to Gratitude”
Natasha Schüll (New York University) – “From the Quantified Self to the Automated Life”
Antón Barba-Kay (Deep Springs College) – “Does Technology Change Human Nature?”
Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech) – “Contextual Integrity: Positive Thinking about Privacy”
2022-2023
Martha Bayles (Boston College) – “The Ways of Music––and Politics”
Roosevelt Montás (Columbia University) – “Rescuing Socrates”
Allison Stanger (Middlebury College) – “Are AI and Liberal Democracy Compatible?”
George Packer (The Atlantic Magazine) – “Can We Still Govern Ourselves?”
2021-2022
Rory Stewart (Yale University; British MP) – “Morality in Politics”
Samuel Stoner (Assumption University) – “Kant on Freedom, Communication, and Aesthetics”
2020-2021
Michael Sandel (Harvard University) – “The Tyranny of Merit”
Vickie Sullivan (Tufts University) – “Alexander the Great in Political Theory”
Yuval Levin (American Enterprise Institute) – “Institutions and Alienation”