"Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It"

(Stan Kimmitt Lecture on Public Service)

8:00 PM Thursday, September 11, 2014
Dennison Theatre

"Why Diaspora Is Good for the Jews"

(In collaboration with the Philosophy Forum)

3:40 PM Thursday, September 11, 2014
Gallagher Business Building 123

Please join us for a seminar and lecture with Alan Wolfe, one of America’s most distinguished public intellectuals. Since receiving his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, he has become a leading authority on religion in American public life. In addition to his teaching and administrative work at Boston College, he is a Senior Fellow with the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York. In the fall of 2004, he was the George H. W. Bush Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Professor Wolfe is the author and editor of more than twenty books. His recent book publications include:

• At Home in Exile: Why Diaspora Is Good for Jews (2014)
• Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It (2011)
• The Future of Liberalism (2009)
• Does American Democracy Still Work? (2006)
• Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It (2005)
• The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Practice Our Faith (2003)
• An Intellectual in Public (2003)
• Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice (2001)
• One Nation, After All (1999)

Both One Nation, After All and Moral Freedom were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

Professor Wolfe is a contributing editor for The Wilson Quarterly, Commonwealth Magazine, and In Character. He writes often for these publications as well as for Commonweal, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and other magazines and newspapers. He has lectured widely at American and European universities.

In his controversial new book, At Home in Exile: Why Diaspora Is Good for Jews, Professor Wolfe observes that for the first time in their long history Jews are free to live in a Jewish state or to lead secure, productive lives outside of it. In the seminar, he will put forward his argument that not only have Jews living outside the Jewish state flourished, but their universalistic outlook is desperately needed if Israel is to survive.

The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.