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Casual Conversation June 21st with Professor Berger admin

On Sunday, June 21 at 3 pm Eastern Time, Professor Eric Berger will our guest for a Casual Conversation on Zoom.  He comes to us courtesy of the efforts of classmate Steve Horwitz who also was our agent in o

Casual Conversation June 4 with Professor Danielle Allen admin

Thanks to the good work of classmate Steven Horwitz, we are pleased that Professor Danielle Allen will join us for a Casual Conversation on Thursday, June 4 from 1:00 to 2:15 pm Eastern Time

Casual Conversation April 19th with Charles Murray

Independent scholar Charles Murray will return to be our guest for a Casual Conversation on Sunday, April 19 at 3 pm.  Last time Mr. Murray spoke to us about the possible causes for exceptional accomplishment by Jews.  This time will be more directly about religion: his own investigation of faith and more particularly the Christian faith.   You will find his journey about and into faith chronicled in his new book Taking Religion Seriously (Encounter Books 2025). 

Barton Swain reviewed the book for the Wall Street Journal:

Danford, John William (11/10/2025)

John W. Danford passed away peacefully at his home in Pan Yack Park on November 10, 2025, surrounded by his family, after a years-long struggle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.


John was born in 1947 to William and Elinor Jean Danford of Racine, Wisconsin, the second of five children. He completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College (summa cum laude, 1969), earned a master’s at the University of California, Berkeley (1971), and his PhD at Yale (1976). 

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