Witherspoon Institute
2026 Summer Seminars
Held in Princeton, NJ
For rising high school juniors and seniors, undergraduates, and graduate students.
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Book Reviews
Rawlsian “public reason” approaches to human capabilities are insufficient bases for social justice.
An “adaptationist” approach to pornography is dangerous because it ignores widespread research showing that pornography harms society at many levels.
In a new bestseller, David Brooks contends that the “new sciences” point to the incredible reality and importance of old-fashioned things like education, character formation, and virtue.
A new book argues that flogging may be a more humane, efficient, and just punishment than incarceration.
An important book from the 1980s can teach today’s Republican presidential candidates the importance of classical conservatism.
An exploration of how war affects people, and what it does to their natural moral instincts. The second in a two-part series.
An exploration of how war affects people, and what it does to their natural moral instincts. The first in a two-part series.
Rather than trying to escape our bodies, we should see that our bodies make union with another possible.
How and why considering distribution will yield a complete economic science. The second in a two-part series.
