At Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI--built in 1763, the oldest surviving synagogue in the United States--I'll join a Symposium on Religious Liberty entitled "Faith, Freedom, and the First Amendment." The keynote address will be delivered by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University […]
I'll join my friends at the Blake Center for Faith and Freedom in Somers, CT to explore how the political philosophy of John Locke inspired the American Revolution. Like no other thinker in his day, Locke blended democratic ideals with biblical religion to make the case for revolution against a tyrannical state. I'll draw from […]
I will be joining my friends at Baylor University's Honors College on Wednesday, April 22 to talk about my book THE WAR FOR MIDDLE-EARTH: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933-1945. You can register for the event here: https://honors.baylor.edu/about-us/annual-events/lectures/annual-ethics-culture-lecture
