To provide the United Kingdom with the monarch she felt it needed, Queen Elizabeth II sacrificed an ordinary life and the other things most of us take for granted.
If you happened to catch the latest season of Netflix s
The Crown, you couldn t miss Gillian Anderson s stunning performance as the late Margaret Thatcher, Britain s prime minister from 1979 to 1990. But how authentic was Anderson s portrayal? Or Meryl Streep s in the film
The Iron Lady? Nile Gardiner, an aide to Thatcher and director of Thatcher Center for Freedom and fellow at Heritage Foundation, will dismantle media portrayals as needed and describe the real person at the heart of world politics for 11 years.
Monday, May 17
Gerald Seib We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution
2021 to Feature Global Summit Double Dip Jefferson Educational Society s signature speaker series gets two installments by Matt Swanseger
Ali Zaidi, April Ryan, David Ignatius, Leana Wen, and Rasahwn Ray will take part in the latest Jefferson Educational Society Global Summit
This year, the Jefferson Educational Society is challenging hungry minds to a
dual. Not only will its signature Global Summit speaker series be back, it will be back
twice to twin-pique our interests. We are so pleased that we can present two summits for our members and supporters this year, but most of all for the people of the Erie region, said Dr. Ferki Ferati, president of the JES. This is a chance for all of us to hear from some of the greatest thinkers, writers, and presenters in the world, and to show them our community s many assets and challenges.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
Dartmouth College
Lecture Info:
What makes the dogma of American conservatism so peculiar is its lack of any discernible conservatism. Tax cuts and more tax cuts, with some free trade mixed in, may or may not be good policy, but they are not conservative in any meaningful sense of the word. America’s challenges in the 21st century are different than those of prior generations, from great-power competition with China and monopolies in the technology sector to failing communities and rising inequality. Neither the libertarian faith in markets nor the progressive reliance on redistribution will solve such problems, indeed it helped to create them. Conservatives, with their appreciation for the nation-state, the rules, and institutions necessary to well-functioning markets, and the strength of the social fabric, have a vital role to play, if they can reassert themselves. Oren Cass will discuss what conservatism i