McConnell Center Podcast

Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome Dr. Abby Hall Blanco as she attempts to convince us of the importance of reading Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs!

Abigail Hall Blanco’s research f…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome Dr Amy Sturgis and she attempts to convince us of the importance of the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins!

Amy holds a Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt …

Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome Dr. Reggie Van Stockum for a conversation about the importance of the work of Harlan Hubbard. 

Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. is a lawyer, teacher, biologist, writ…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome Dr Amy Sturgis and she attempts to convince us of the importance of the "Dark Academia" genre!

Amy holds a Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University and spec…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome KY Secretary of State Michael Adams to convince us to read Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone!

Michael G. Adams is Kentucky's 86th Secretary of State.

Michael …

Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome Dr. Amy Sturgis to convince us to read Mary Shelley - but probably not the book of which you are thinking!

Amy H. Sturgis earned her Ph.D. in Intellectual Hist…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome Trivius Caldwell for a discussion centered around Ralph Ellison. 

Lieutenant Colonel Trivius G. Caldwell is an accomplished U.S. Army officer with over 18 year…

Join #McConnellCenter Director Dr. Gary Gregg for a discussion regarding the seminal work of Aldous Huxley. 

An award-winning political science teacher and expert on the U.S. presidency, Gregg has wr…

Join #McConnellCenter Director Dr. Gary Gregg for a conversation about Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 .

An award-winning political science teacher and expert on the U.S. presidency, Gregg has written …

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. Aurelein Craiutu for a conversation regarding John Stuart Mill’s book On Liberty.

Aurelian Craiutu (Ph.D. Princeton, 1999) is Professor in the Department of P…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. Carson Holloway for a conversation about C.S. Lewis' book The Abolition of Man and exactly why reading it is important. 

Carson Holloway is a Washington Fello…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. Carson Holloway for a conversation regarding the work of Joseph Story.

Carson Holloway is a Washington Fellow at The Claremont Institute’s Center for the Amer…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. John Kleber for a conversation regarding the work of Neil Postman.

Now one of Kentucky’s most respected historians, John Kleber was a member of the third grad…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. Andrew Rabin for a conversation on the merits of reading Dante.

Dr. Andrew Rabin joined the University of Louisville English Department in 2005 after receivin…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. Barbara Perry and she does her best to convince you to read a work of James Huntington. Barbara A. Perry is the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at th…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. E Christian Kopff and he makes an argument as to why you need to read the works of poet, philosopher, rhetorician, and humorist, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Dr. N Susan Laehn. and she attempts to convince you to read the works of the Father of Tragedy - Aeschylus. Dr. Laehn currently serves as a part-time faculty memb…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Amy Sturgis, Ph.D., as she attempts to convince you to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Dr. Sturgis, an American author, speaker, and scholar of science fiction …

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Amy Sturgis, Ph.D., to deliver a lecture titled "A Fortnight in the Wilderness." Dr. Sturgis, an American author, speaker, and scholar of science fiction and fant…

Join the #McConnellCenter as we host Justin Litke, Ph.D., of the Catholic University of America, speaking as part of the "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" series. He presents the lecture "Tocquevill…