{"product_id":"the-walter-berns-constitution-day-lectures-2011-24-9780844750972","title":"The Walter Berns Constitution Day Lectures: 2011-24","description":"In September 2011, AEI honored longtime AEI colleague Walter Berns with a panel dedicated to discussing his scholarship on the Constitution and the republican polity it supports. At this event, former AEI President Arthur C. Brooks announced that henceforth, AEI's annual Constitution Day celebration would be named in honor of Walter. This volume is a collection of the 13 Walter Berns Constitution Day Lectures given since 2012. Walter's own work ranged widely, addressing issues on such diverse topics as civil and religious liberties, free speech, capital punishment, political philosophy, political science, presidential selection, and patriotism. It's fitting that the lectures named after him cover an equally broad array of topics related to the Constitution and the American republic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKass, Leon R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeon R. Kass\u003c\/b\u003e has served as dean of the faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem since 2021 and is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought. After serving as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005, he joined AEI as the Hertog Fellow in Social Thought and is currently a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. His scholarship has ranged widely, involving issues in biomedical ethics, civic and liberal education, and biblical exegesis. His latest book is \u003ci\u003eFounding God's Nation: Reading Exodus\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). At the time of his Constitution Day remarks, Dr. Kass held AEI's Madden-Jewett Chair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLevin, Yuval:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYuval Levin\u003c\/b\u003e has served as the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute since 2019, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. Before joining AEI, he was a vice president and Hertog Fellow at the Ethics \u0026amp; Public Policy Center from 2007 to 2019. Dr. Levin is also the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eNational Affairs \u003c\/i\u003eand senior editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Atlantis\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eAmerican Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation--and Could Again\u003c\/i\u003e (2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcConnell, Michael W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael W. McConnell\u003c\/b\u003e is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. He formerly served as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit from 2002 to 2009. He also was assistant general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget and assistant to the solicitor general in the Department of Justice. His latest book, coauthored with Nathan S. Chapman, is \u003ci\u003eAgreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e (2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AEI Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589837979922,"sku":"9780844750972","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5fa51065-f98c-4c25-8af2-da47477fa50d.jpg?v=1756809410","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-walter-berns-constitution-day-lectures-2011-24-9780844750972","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}