The Wabash Conservative Union will be hosting 2008 Presidential candidate and five-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives Tom Tancredo.  Tancredo will be speaking on immigration reform on Tuesday, April 12 at 8:00p.m. in the Pioneer chapel at Wabash College.  The event will be free and open to the public.

Tancredo has been an outspoken voice in the debate on immigration reform.  Most recently, in 2010, Tancredo ran for the Colorado governorship under the American Constitution Party’s ticket and came in second place with 36.7% of the vote.  He ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility and immigration enforcement.

On Thursday, September 30, 2010, the Wabash Conservative Union, in conjunction with the Wabash Newman Center and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, will host Robert P. George, professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University.  He will be presenting a talk entitled “Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity” at 8:00 p.m. in Baxter 101.

Professor George is at the forefront of the Pro-Life movement in the United States, and is a co-author of the Manhattan Declaration, a petition signed by many Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Christians defending the causes of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty.  He was formerly a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and was a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.  He is the author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, In Defense of Natural Law, and The Clash of Orthodoxies.

The Wabash Conservative Union is pleased to announce that we will host Professor E. Christian Kopff on Thursday, April 22 to speak on the merits of the classics in education.  His lecture is entitled “Why America Needs the Classical Tradition.”

Dr. Kopff is professor and Associate Director of the Honors Program at University of Colorado.  He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and a PhD in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He also works in Italy with the University of Urbino.  He has been a great asset to the Classics community, writing more than a hundred scholarly papers and reviews in addition to the book on which he will lecture: The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition.

Dr. Kopff will lecture on April 22 at 12:00 PM in Center Hall 216 at Wabash College.  The event is free and open to the public.

On Thursday, December 10, 2009, the Wabash Conservative Union will proudly host Dr. Tom Palmer, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and director of Cato University, the Institute’s educational arm. Dr. Palmer has contributed to numerous papers and scholarly journals, including the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Ethics, Critical Review, and Constitutional Political Economy, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Spectator of London.

Dr. Palmer has spent a great deal of time traveling the world, delivering lectures on the importance of freedom and individual rights. In the 1980’s and early 1990’s, he actively worked with the Cato Institute to spread classical liberal ideas in the Soviet bloc states.

Dr. Palmer will be lecturing at Wabash on his newest book, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice . The event will be held in Baxter 101 at 8:00 PM, and will be free and open to the public. A light reception and book signing will follow.

November 12, 2009 – 8:00 p.m. Center 216

On November 12, in conjunction with the Newman Center, the Wabash Conservative Union will host Dr. Douglas Farrow, author of the book Nation of Bastards: Essays on the End of Marriage.

Dr. Farrow, a leader in the defense of traditional marriage in Canada, is a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He is the Project Director for Pluralism, Religion & Public Policy at that University and a consultant in the Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law and Culture. His essays have appeared in the National Post and various other Canadian newspapers.

His lecture will focus on issues raised in his award winning book — namely the political and social implications of the re-definition of marriage, both in Canada and the United States.