7:30 PM | Galbreath Chapel (College Green)
Thomas C. Leonard is Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University and Lecturer in the Department of Economics, which has twice awarded him the Richard D. Quandt Prize for outstanding teaching. His book, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era (2016), won the 2017 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize from the History of Economics Society.
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Ross Douthat has written a twice-weekly opinion column for The New York Times since 2009. Before joining the Times, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic. A graduate of Harvard, he is the author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (2012); Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (2005); and, with Reihan Salam, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (2008). His latest book is To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism (2018).
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Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent and director of the William F. Buckley Jr Fellowship Program in Political Journalism. He is also the theater critic at The New Criterion. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he began his journalism career at the Bombay-based Indian Express Newspaper Group and spent fifteen years in the newspaper business in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. He served as editor-in-chief of three newspapers; was the editor of Philadelphia’s The Bulletin; and worked briefly for The Atlantic. He is a regular commentator on Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, and NPR.
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Jinhye Jo is a North Korean refugee who founded NKinUSA, an organization which tries to rescue other North Korean refugees from China and Southeast Asia. NKinUSA offers extensive resettlement support for those refugees who make it to the United States. It also raises awareness of North Korea’s human rights record. Jo will speak about her own family’s experiences and flight from North Korea as well as her efforts to help other North Korean refugees. This event receives support from the Jack Miller Center through a grant from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation.
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Samuel Goldman is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of the Loeb Institute for Religion Freedom at George Washington University. He received his PhD from Harvard University after completing his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University. Before coming to GWU in 2013, he was the Tikvah Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion, Ethics and Politics at Princeton University. He is also the literary editor of Modern Age and his latest book is God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America (Penn, 2018).
