Cornell Program on
Ethics and Public Life

Explore the Series of Four Lectures


September 12
Daniel Ziblatt (Government, Harvard) on Lessons from How Democracies Die: Can It Happen Here?
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October 15
Michael Dawson (Political Science, Chicago) on The Politics of Racial Justice and the New Calls for Reparations
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November 12
Brian Schaffner (Politics, Tufts) on Racism, Sexism and Class in Trump-Era Politics: 2016, 2018 and the Future
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February 14
Sheri Berman (Political Science, Barnard) on The Postwar Order and the Rise and Decay of European Democracy
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