THE NEW DEAL

January 31 – February 3, 2010

The New Deal embodied a fundamentally new understanding of the meaning of freedom and the role of government in the American constitutional order. To a large degree, arguments over this new understanding have dominated American politics to the present day.

This third CCA of the 2009-2010 academic year, co-sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series, will consider the principles, history, and legacy of the New Deal.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31

4:00 p.m. “FDR’s Life and Times”
               H. W. Brands
               University of Texas
               Author, Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency 
               of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

8:00 p.m. “The Intellectual Roots of the New Deal”
               Bradley C.S. Watson
               St. Vincent College
               Author, Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science
               of Jurisprudence

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1

4:00 p.m. “Saving Democracy: Legacies of the New Deal”
               Alan Brinkley
               Columbia University
               Author, Liberalism and Its Discontents
  
8:00 p.m. “Keynesianism and the Economic Principles of the New Deal”
               Burton Folsom, Jr.
               Hillsdale College
               Author, New Deal or Raw Deal? 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2

4:00 p.m. “Social and Cultural Impact of the New Deal”
               Amity Shlaes
               Bloomberg News
               Author, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

8:00 p.m. “Economic and Political Legacy of the New Deal”
               Larry Schweikart
               University of Dayton
               Co-Author, A Patriot’s History of the United States

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3

4:00 p.m. Faculty Roundtable

All Speakers Confirmed