New board member joins JMC

JMC Welcomes Phil Kayman to Board of Directors!

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JMC is pleased to announce Phil Kayman ([link removed]) as a new member of the Board of Directors.

Phil
is the retired founding partner of the Chicago law firm of Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP. During his 40 year legal career, he concentrated his practice in corporate and real estate transactions with a particular emphasis in hotel transaction.

He has previously taught in the Graduate School of Business of Dominican University, a small private university in suburban Chicago.
Phil currently serves on a variety of private corporate and not-for-profit boards. He received his bachelors degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from Northwestern University School of Law.

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History can always teach us something about the present, but only if it remains a priority. Without knowledge of our predecessors' experiences, we have no basis to make important decisions about our country's future.

JMC supports those teachers who are championing education in America's history and its founding principles. Our growing network of more than 900 dedicated professors are making a difference on hundreds of campuses across the country. So far, they have taught more than one million students. Will you help us reach more?
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Article Spotlight
James Ceaser: "Between Us and the State of Nature"

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JMC board member James Ceaser ([link removed]) has written an article for Law & Liberty ([link removed]) that speaks on government's duty to maintain public safety and the protection of law:

Government in America today does many things. It builds roads, educates and feeds our children, supplies housing to millions, and gives living assistance to older citizens. And this is just the start of its vast array of responsibilities. Important as these activities are, however, none of them provides the primary reason why people instituted a government in the first place.

This reason was perhaps best described by the English political philosopher John Locke, author of the Second Treatise on Civil Government. Published in 1689, some 80 years before the events that led to the American Revolution, Locke’s Treatise was the most widely read book in America in the 1770s, the Bible excepted. It still deserves our attention today. The work speaks directly to the inchoate movement currently roiling the nation, which calls for defunding (or disbanding) police forces and demands using the money recovered to ‘invest in people’ and adopt ‘a holistic model of public safety…'

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Opinion Spotlight
Jonathan Greenberg: "Jefferson Belongs to Us All - Leave His Memorial Alone"
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Director of Freedom Initiatives at the Jack Miller Family Foundation Jonathan Greenberg ([link removed]) has written an opinion piece for Newsweek ([link removed]) on how the Jefferson Memorial challenges us to live up to the principles of the Declaration:

Earlier this week, The New York Times published an opinion piece by Lucian K. Truscott IV, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, advocating the removal of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. He says that his ancestor was nothing more than a scoundrel and a hypocrite...

...Sadly for Mr. Truscott, I am also a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson. Not by blood, of course. My ancestors were scattered across Eastern Europe in 1776.

But the Declaration of Independence is part of my moral genealogy. Yours, too, I'd imagine. If you believe, as I do, that all men are created equal and endowed by God with rights that cannot be taken away, then you, too, are a descendant of Thomas Jefferson. If you believe that people institute governments to protect their rights and that government only has power over us insofar as we consent to it, then you, too are a descendent of Thomas Jefferson...
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Article Spotlight
National Review: JMC Fellows Reflect on the Relationship of Politics to Scholarship

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JMC faculty partners and fellows Robert George ([link removed]) , Joshua Dunn ([link removed]) , Samuel Goldman ([link removed]) , and Robert Ingram ([link removed]) were recently interviewed by Christian Alejandro Gonzalez ([link removed]) for a National Review ([link removed]) article on the relationship between politics and scholarship:

Earlier this year, author Avi Woolf argued that right-leaning academics ought to start crafting a conservative vision for research in the humanities and social sciences. In his view, conservative academics should not limit themselves to advocating for Great Books programs. Studying the classic texts of the Western tradition is a valuable exercise, he allowed, but it is also insufficient, for such books “do not advance specifically conservative ideas.” Thus, he maintained, conservative academics should think about how to provide an explicitly conservative “direction [to] future scholarship.”

I found Woolf’s argument intriguing, and I wanted to hear what conservative professors thought about it. As it turned out, most of them appeared to be highly skeptical of the notion that scholarship should be guided by an ideological vision…

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About the Jack Miller Center
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We support professors and educators through programs, resources, fellowships and more to help them teach our nation's students.
www.jackmillercenter.org

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