This event will be moderated by William Allen, Professor of Political Philosophy at Michigan State University.
Harry V. Jaffa, a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, is the author of numerous articles and twelve books, including his widely acclaimed study of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (University of Chicago Press, 1959), and the sequel to it, The New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
Professor Jaffa has been teaching for sixty-five years and he is currently Professor Emeritus of Government at Claremont McKenna College and the Claremont Graduate School. He taught at Ohio State University until 1964, and started teaching at Claremont in the Fall of that year. He received his B.A. from Yale, where he majored in English, in 1939, and holds the Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research.
His other books include Thomism and Aristotelianism: A Study of the Commentary by Thomas Aquinas on the Nicomachean Ethics (1952); Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (1965); The Conditions of Freedom: Essays in Political Philosophy (1975), How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Celebration (1978); American Conservatism and the American Founding (1982); Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question (1994); and Storm Over the Constitution (1999).
