Center for
Public Conversation
at the Institute
for American Values
1841 Broadway
New York, New York 10023
Entrance on 60th Street
Second Floor
All events require reservations.
If you are interested in attending,
please contact us at
Telephone: 212-246-3942
Fax: 212-541-6665
info AT americanvalues.org
Library and gallery visits by appointment only.
A Conversation with W. Bradford Wilcox, Director, National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Elizabeth Marquardt, Director, Center for Marriage and Families, Institute for American Values, David and Amber Lapp, Researchers, Institute for American Values, on "When Baby Makes Three: How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearable." Hosted by David Blankenhorn, President of the Institute for American Values. Read more
A Conversation with Sheldon Garon, Nissan Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University, on "Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves." Hosted by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Director of the John Templeton Center for Thrift and Generosity at the Institute for American Values. Read more
A Conversation with Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, Divinity School, The University of Chicago; hosted by David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values.
One of the nation's most prominent public intellectuals whose body of work has shaped elite opinion for a quarter of a century, Jean Bethke Elshtain will hold a wide-ranging and riveting discussion on the state of American political life and culture. Read more
A Conversation with Ralph Richard Banks, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Author, Is Marriage for White People? How the Decline of African American Marriage Affects Everyone, hosted by Leah Ward Sears, Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice (retired).
Professor Banks looks at the intimate lives of African American women and examines why they are not getting married and are the least likely to marry of any segment of the American population. Read more
A Conversation with Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values; Amy L. Wax, Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School; and W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, University of Virginia and chair of the team of scholars that authored the third edition of Why Marriage Matters; hosted by Jonathan Rauch, guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. Read more
William P. Mumma is the President and CEO of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities USA.
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead is director of the Templeton Center for Thrift and Generosity at the Institute for American Values.
Sean Fieler, is Managing Member of Equinox Partners, LP.
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Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences in the department of economics at Brown University.
Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears (retired) is the first woman and the youngest person ever to serve on the Georgia Supreme Court.
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Kay S. Hymowitz is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Is Turning Men Into Boys.
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead is director of the Templeton Center for Thrift and Generosity at the Institute for American Values and author of Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of Single Women. Read more
Distinguished scholars discuss recent protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordon, Iraq, Iran, Algeria, the Sudan, Bahrain, and Libya.
A Conversation with Abdulrahman Al-Salimi, Editor, Al-Tasamoh, and Hassan I. Mneimneh, Editor, IjtihadReason, hosted by William A. Galston, The Ezra K. Zikha Chair in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution. Read more
A Conversation with Peter Wood, President, National Association of Scholars and author of A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now and David Blankenhorn, President, Institute for American Values. Read more
A Conversation with Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values, and W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, University of Virginia and editor of The State of Our Unions Read more
A Conversation with Claire Gaudiani, author of Generosity Unbound: How American Philanthropy Can Strengthen the Economy and Expand the Middle Class, published September 2010 by Broadway Publications, an imprint of the Institute for American Values, and David Blankenhorn, President, Institute for American Values. Read more
Propositions is a free, quarterly publication that aims to continue and deepen the conversations originating from our Center for Public Conversation.
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