The conference features presentations by Emory University Professor Merle Black, Governing Magazine's Executive Editor Alan Ehrenhalt and Harvard University Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield.
Admission is free and open to the public.
He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. He is one of the world's leading experts on Machiavelli. His current research is a book on manliness and a new translation of Tocqueville's Democracy in America. He has been on the faculty at Harvard since 1962. He is a leading student of and commentator on Southern politics.