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We had a successful 2012-2013 year.

View videos of our Janus Forum Debates on Gay Marriage (Rauch vs. Raimondo), the 2012 Election (Kristol vs. Galston), and U.S. Foreign Policy (Preble vs. Fly).

Watch videos of each of the three panels from our conference on the Morality of Capitalism.

View a list of our 2012-2013 lectures.

Please check back in Fall 2013 for another year of exciting programming. 

--Alan Levine, PTI Director

William Kristol vs. Bill Galston: "How Should You Vote?"



The mission of the Political Theory Institute (PTI) is to encourage the serious study of the great questions of political theory and to bring the insights of political theorists to bear on current issues and events.

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Director Alan Levine

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A specialist in the history of Western political thought, Professor Levine's teaching and research interests include the theoretical principles of the United States, the concept of "America," and ancient, renaissance, modern, and postmodern political theory.

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