2025 American Politics and Government Summit | Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Recorded live at ISI’s 2025 American Politics and Government Summit, this series presents three days of rigorous lectures, panels, and debates exploring the theme Statesmanship and Leadership in the Age of Mass Society. Featuring leading scholars including Christopher Caldwell, Patrick J. Deneen, and Vincent Phillip Muñoz, the Summit examined the challenges facing leadership in an era increasingly shaped by mass culture, technological change, and the managerial state.
Through conversations spanning political theory, history, psychology, and public affairs, these sessions revisit warnings from Churchill, Burke, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Kirk, Arendt, and others who foresaw modernity’s tensions. Join faculty, thinkers, and citizens as they grapple with the future of statesmanship and the ideas that will shape the Right’s governing philosophy in the decades ahead.
Episodes
11 episodes
The Hispanic Tradition of Liberty: An Exploration
Alejandro Chaufen – Acton Institute Enrique Pallares – University of Pennsylvania Juan Ángel Soto – University of Navarra Chair: José Sáenz Crespo – Intercollegiate Studies Institute
The Pedagogy of a Statesman
Angelica Kajiwara – Faulkner University Nathan Street - Southern Wesleyan University Chair: Rachel Kujawa – Ridgeview Classical School
DEBATE: The Influence of Leo Strauss
Patrick Deneen – University of Notre DameVincent Phillip Muñoz – University of Notre DameModerator: Daniel McCarthy – Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Leadership in Context of Globalization and Civilization
Isabella Elias – Pepperdine School of Public PolicyWyatt Greco – Pepperdine School of Public PolicyLuke Foster – Hillsdale College
EJ Antoni on Economics
E.J. Antoni – The Heritage FoundationJohnny Burtka – Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Civic Education in Mass Democracy
Jonathan Culp – Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership, University of ToledoPeter Koritanski – Cleveland State UniversityDeborah O’Malley – Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership, University of ...
Christian Statesmanship in Mass Society
Stephen Wolfe – American ReformerBen R. Crenshaw – University of MississippiSoren Moody – American ReformerTimon Cline – American Reformer
Statesmanship and the Common Good
Chad Pecknold – Catholic University of AmericaGladden Pappin – Hungarian Institute for International AffairsPatrick Deneen – University of Notre Dame