Liberty Series: Patriotism, Higher Education, & Tocqueville

With only a minority of Americans under 30 expressing pride in their country, citizens must recommit to a renewal of serious civic education in schools and higher education. The great French observer of America, Alexis de Tocqueville, praised Americans of the 1830s for their reflective, considered patriotism, which blended love of America with the insistence that a free people should debate each other about how best to live up to their founding ideals. Tocqueville identified schooling as one foundation of Americans’ support for self-government. But higher education in the past fifty years has abandoned civic instruction, neglecting the study of American constitutionalism and history and discarding efforts to develop the civic virtues of rational patriotism and civil disagreement. Join Paul Carrese, founding director of the School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, to hear how America’s past provides a model for a patriotic renewal.

The Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board has approved this symposium for a Substantive CLE credit. This credit will be provided by the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy at Villanova University. Attendees seeking CLE credit must attend in person and complete additional forms at the event to qualify for the credit.

This program will be hosted in person at the Union League of Philadelphia. Registration is required.

Reception: 6:00pm
Program: 6:30pm
End of Program: 7:30pm

Streaming: Unless requested otherwise by the speaker, Founding Forward programs are streamed via YouTube. Click here to find the livestream (live at 6:30pm the day of the event). Virtual viewing does not require registration.