CON PROG April 13-14

2018

Progressive/Conservative Summit 2018 SUMMIT SCHEDULE April 13 - 14 FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018 12:30 pm 1:30 pm 6:00 pm Haven in a Heartless World: Christopher Lasch’s Democratic Hope Opening Remarks Eric Miller Hauenstein Center Director Gleaves Whitney 1:30 pm 6:15 pm 1:40 pm 8:15 pm After Identity BREAK Mark Lilla 1:45 pm Respondents: Patrick J. Deneen, Angela Dillard, 2:45 pm Teaching Critical Empathy in a Daniel McCarthy, and Karen Zivi Post-Truth, Pro-Feelings Age SATURDAY, April 14, 2018 Molly Worthen 2:45 pm 3:10 pm 8:15 am Breakfast and Registration BREAK 3:15 pm 5:15 pm 9:00 am Civil Rights Conservatism The Culture Wars, Revisited 10:00 am Andrew Hartman Angela Dillard Respondents: Brian Domitrovic, 10:15 am Civic Confusion on Campus Louis Moore, Michelle Nickerson, and 11:15 am Susan J. McWilliams John D. Wilsey

11:30 am 5:30pm Lunch provided by the generosity of our donors. Dessert reception. Participants Patrick J. Angela Brian Andrew Deneen Dillard Domitrovic Hartman

Patrick J. Deneen is the David A. Angela Dillard is Associate Dean of Brian Domitrovic is Associate Potenziani Memorial Associate Undergraduate Education in the College Professor of History at Sam Houston Professor of Constitutional Studies of Literature, Science, and the Arts at State University. A graduate of at the University of Notre Dame. His the University of . She is also Columbia and Harvard, his interests latest book, Why Liberalism Failed, the Earl Lewis Collegiate Professor lie at the intersection of modern published by Press, of Afroamerican and African Studies. intellectual and economic history. His has sparked conversation across Her first book,Guess Who’s Coming to first book,Econoclasts , is a history of the political spectrum. Professor Dinner Now? Multicultural Conservatism supply-side economics. His second Deneen is the author or editor in America, was among the first critical book, The Pillars of Reaganomics, is a of six additional books, including studies of conservative political thought collection of the work of economist Democratic Faith and The Odyssey among African Americans, Latinos, Arthur Laffer. With Larry Kudlow, of Political Theory. As a graduate women, and homosexuals. Her second he co-authored JFK and the Reagan student, he won the book, Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Revolution, published by Portfolio Award for Best Dissertation in Social Change in , focuses on the Penguin. During the 2015-16 academic Political Theory from the American interconnections of religion and political term, he was the Visiting Scholar in Political Science Association. radicalism in Detroit from the 1930s to Conservative Thought and Policy at the 1960s. the University of Colorado, Boulder. Andrew Mark Daniel Hartman Lilla McCarthy

Andrew Hartman, Professor of Mark Lilla is Professor of at Daniel McCarthy is Director of the History at Illinois State University, . He previously held Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship was the founding president of professorships at Program at the Fund for American the Society for U.S. Intellectual and the Committee on Social Thought Studies. He also serves as Editor of History. Professor Hartman is the at the . A regular Modern Age. Previously, he served author of Education and the Cold contributor to The New York Review of more than six years as Editor of The War: The Battle for the American Books, he recently wrote The Once and American Conservative. Outside of School, published by Palgrave Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, journalism, he served as an internet Macmillan, and A War for the Soul published by HarperCollins. This book communications coordinator for the of America: A History of the Culture expands on a brief essay that became Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign Wars, published by the University the most widely read opinion piece and as a senior editor for ISI Books. He of Chicago Press, with a second of 2016 in , having is a graduate of Washington University edition forthcoming. His third been published in November of that in St. Louis, where he studied classics. book, tentatively titled Karl Marx in year. A scholar of Western political and America, is also under contract with religious thought, Professor Lilla is the the University of Chicago Press. author or co-editor of six other books. Susan J. Eric Louis McWilliams Miller Moore

Susan J. McWilliams is Associate Eric Miller is Professor of History Louis Moore is Associate Professor of Professor of Politics at Pomona and Director of the Honors Program History and Coordinator of the African/ College, where she has twice won at Geneva College. He is the author African American Studies program at Grand the Wig Award for Excellence of Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life Valley State University. He is the author in Teaching. She is the author of Christopher Lasch, published by of two books, including I Fight for a Living: of Traveling Back: Toward a Eerdmans, and Glimpses of Another Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, Global Political Theory, published Land: Political Hopes, Spiritual Longing, 1880-1915, published by the University of by Oxford University Press. published by Cascade Books. With Illinois Press, and We Will Win the Day: The Professor McWilliams is also the John Fea and Jay Green, he also co- Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, editor of A Political Companion to edited Confessing History: Explorations and the Quest for Equality, published James Baldwin, published by the in Christian Faith and the Historian’s by Praeger. His writing has appeared University Press of Kentucky. In Vocation, published by the University of in USA Today and Vox, and he has been 2014, she won both the Graves Notre Dame Press. interviewed by National Public Radio. Award in the Humanities and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Michelle John D. Nickerson Wilsey

Michelle Nickerson is Associate Professor of History John D. Wilsey is Associate Professor of Church History at at Loyola University Chicago. She teaches courses on Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was the 2017-2018 the history of women and gender, U.S. politics, social William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life movements, and cities and suburbs, in addition to the at Princeton University, with the James Madison Program Ramonat Seminar in American Catholic History and in American Ideals and Institutions. He is the author of One Culture. She is the author of Mothers of Conservatism: Nation Under God? An Evangelical Critique of Christian America, Women and the Postwar Right, published by Princeton published by Wipf & Stock, and American Exceptionalism and University Press. With Darren Dochuk, she also co-edited Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea, published by IVP a volume of essays titled Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Academic. Professor Wilsey also edited an abridged edition of Place, Space, and Region, published by the University of Tocqueville’s classic work, titled Democracy in America: A New Pennsylvania Press. Abridgment for Students, published by Lexham. He serves as Affiliate Scholar in Theology and History at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Molly Karen Worthen Zivi

Molly Worthen is Assistant Professor of History at Karen Zivi is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Frederik the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, research focuses on North American religious and Michigan, where she teaches courses on human rights and feminist intellectual history, particularly the ideas and culture politics. She is the author of Making Rights Claims: A Practice of of conservative Christianity. Her most recent book, Democratic Citizenship, published by Oxford University Press, and Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American her recent research on human rights and performative politics can Evangelicalism, published by Oxford University Press, be found in the Journal of Human Rights and Philosophy and Rhetoric. examines American evangelical intellectual life since She is an editor at Contemporary Political Theory and serves on 1945. Professor Worthen is also a contributing opinion the editorial board of Citizenship Studies. She also serves as Board writer for The New York Times. She has written Chair for the Progressive Women’s Alliance of West Michigan, an all about religion and politics for The New Yorker, Slate, volunteer, women-led, nonpartisan PAC. The American Prospect, Foreign Policy, and other publications.