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List of Presentations, Speeches, and Lectures:
- 1991 Civil Rights Act: Who Wins, Who Loses (January 9, 1991).
- Academic Excellence: the Apex of the Land-grant Vision (February 10, 1998, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA).
- Adding Value in Education (August 19, 1999, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA).
- Afro-Americans and the Living Constitution - Introductory Remarks (March 15, 1988, Conference on Afro-Americans and the Living Constitutions, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC).
- Affirmative Action: Myths and Misconceptions (July 14, 1988, American Association for Affirmative Action Regional Conference, Seattle, WA).
- Agenda Setting in an Era of Political Drift (July 14, 1988, City Club of San Diego, San Diego, CA).
- Ain't I A Woman: Multiculturalism's Contribution to Political Science (September 1993, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting).
- America Proves Its Principles (December 3, 1988, U. S. Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution - Western Regional Forum, San Francisco, CA).
- An America Without Minorities: The Next Historical Epoch (March 24, 1988, Conference for Journalists on Minorities, Washington Journalism Center, 1988).
- The American Founding: An Accomplishment in Virtue (February 23, 1987, The Tocqueville Forum, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC).
- America's Progress and Heaven's Invisible Hand (December 17, 1988).
- America's Tacit Pass-Card System (April 11, 1991, University of California at Long Beach).
- Anti-Abortion Politics and the Victims' Army (July 4, 1992, A Fourth of July Oration, "And Justice for All" Rally, Baton Rouge, LA).
- Assessment Programs: Thin Veneer or Core Activity? (November 5, 1998, Address to the Virginia Assessment Group, Wintergreen, VA).
- Best Friends: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (September 21, 2004) (published in Letter from Plymouth Rock, vol. 28, issue 1-2, Jan.-Apr. 2005).
- The Bill of Rights: A Constitutional Tail (December 15, 1991).
- Civil Rights: Are We All Included? (January 27, 1989).
- Civil Rights Day in West Virginia (March 21, 1989).
- A Civil Rights Forum (December 1, 1988).
- Clarence Thomas Hearings (October 1991).
- A College Education: The Road to our Dreams and our Success (January 19, 1999).
- Constitution Day, Remarks at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (September 17, 1988).
- A Constitution for All Americans (June 28, 1987) [published in the Lincoln Review vol. 8, no. 1 (Summer-Fall 1987): 51-60]. [PDF file].
- The Constitution: Not Just a Law - A Dissent from Misspelled Original Intent (October 17, 1987) [published in Derailing the Constitution: The Undermining of American Federalism, edited by Edward B. McLean (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 1997), 61-85].
- The Constitution to End All Constitutions: The Descent from the American Founding into the Twentieth Century, or The Perfect State is Not Ideal (December 3, 1983) [PDF file].
- Cultivating Our Roots: The Enduring Purpose of Education (August 24, 1998).
- The Dangers of Foreign Language Study (November 6, 1998).
- Defend That Life (February 14, 1992) [PDF file].
- A Discursus on the Sources of the American Founding (October 1984).
- Doing Good By Knowing What You Are Doing (April 14, 1999).
- Domestic Sovereignties -- International Responsibilities (November 3-4, 1994).
- E pluribus unum, ou, Comment réver à l'unité (November 9-11, 1989) [PDF file].
- Education as Metier: Finding the Fabulous in the Universal (April 18, 1999).
- Education: The Gift the Past Gives to the Future (July 31, 1998).
- The End of Education: Increased Knowledge and Confident Judgment (May 22, 1999).
- The Enlightenment and the Loss of Liberty (February 26, 1986).
- Excellence in Judgment: The Curriculum (April 26-29, 2000).
- Expanding the Commonwealth's Human Capital: Minds, Hearts, and Souls (October 28, 1998).
- Equal Opportunity Progress in Virginia (August 28, 1998).
- For What Should We Be Preparing Our Students? For the Unexpected (November 14, 1998).
- Founding Habits (September 17, 2002) [PDF file-text].
- Founding Habits (September 17, 2002) [Link to Audiofile].
- General Education in Virginia's System of Higher Education (February 10, 1999).
- General Washington: Saving the Revolution (July 4, 2004).
- George Washington and the Standing Oak (June 12, 1999) [published in Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition edited by Gary L. Gregg II and Matthew Spalding (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 1999)].
- George Washington: Wrong on the Slavery Issue? (April 15, 2004 - presentation to the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI).
- Getting Civil Rights Right.
- God Alone Can Save Them: Reflections on Sex, Drugs, Crimes, and Rock and Roll (December 10-12, 1993).
- The Good Citizen (November 11, 2000).
- Guns, Laws, Men: Some Constitutional Considerations (March 26, 1985).
- Harry Jaffa's Gift (April 14, 1989).
- Higher Education in Virginia: What Can We Afford? (December 3, 1998).
- If You Ran the Zoo (November 9, 1998).
- In Defense of George Washington: The True Multiculturalist (February 18, 2000).
- Introductory Lecture: GOVT 179s.
- Introductory Remarks delivered before a Conference on "Afro-Americans and the Living Constitution" (March 15, 1988).
- Jesus Walked on Water -- George Washington Built on Land (February 21, 2002) (Published in Faith-Based Not Bureaucracy-Bound: How Religious Institutions Can Fight Government Regulation edited by Ken Masugi, Claremont, CA: The Claremont Institute, 2004, pp. 33-42).
- Journey's End: The Dynamics of Race and Culture in the United States (April 12, 1996).
- Know Thyself--Proficient Humanity the End, Continuous Assessment the Means -- with Carol Allen (July 14, 2003).
- Know Thyself--The Role of Leadership, Judgment and Standards in Educational Assessment -- with Carol Allen (June 28, 2004).
- Law and Morality in our Politics (September 17, 1989).
- The Laws of Science and the Rule of Law (April 23-26, 2003) [published in Herzberg. A.M. and R. W. Olford, eds. Statistics, Science and Public Policy - VIII. Science, Ethics, and the Law. Proceedings of the conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy held at Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, U.K., April 23-26. 2003).
- Let's Make It Happen (November 11, 1998).
- Let's Re-Do Runyon: Questions to Guide Justice White - Re: Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, 87-107 (October 8, 1988).
- The Library as the Center of Learning (May 20, 1999).
- The Lie in the Soul (June 1992).
- Literacy, Info-Literacy and Damned Illiteracy, or Literacy at all Levels, from the Ridiculous to the Sublime -- with Carol Allen (April 2001) [published in Herzberg. A.M. and Oldford, R. W., eds. Statistics, Science and Public Policy - VI. Science and Responsibility. Proceedings of the conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy held at Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, U.K., April 18-21. 2001].
- Making Citizens (March 21, 2003) [Audiofile - WAV].
- Making Citizens (March 21, 2003) [condensed version published in the Claremont Review of Books, vol. 3. no. 3, Summer 2003, p. 38-41].
- Making Our Principles Work (August 15, 1988) [An abbreviated version is published in Vital Speeches of the Day, vol. 55, no. 2 (Nov. 1, 1988): 37-40].
- The Manners of Liberalism: A Question of Limits (March 1981) [An abbreviated version is published in Improving College and University Teaching, vol. 30, no. 4 (1982): 164-170].
- Measuring Up: Progress on Standardized Tests and the Education of Black Students (November 18, 1998).
- Morals, Crimes, Responsibility, Science (April 2001) [published in Herzberg. A.M. and Oldford, R. W., eds. Statistics, Science and Public Policy - VI. Science and Responsibility. Proceedings of the conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy held at Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, U.K., April 18-21. 2001].
- Multiculturalism and Diversity: Same Origins, Different Ends (September 15, 1991) [Published in Vital Speeches (1993)].
- A New Birth of Freedom: Fulfillment or Derailment? (June 14-15, 1985).
- A New Economic Freedom (December 5, 1991).
- Now That the Bicentennial is Over... (September 12, 1991).
- Of Parables and Talents (December 12, 1998).
- On Becoming a Liberal: Guidance of George Washington (August 29, 1998).
- One America for All Americans (August 24, 1989, Heritage Foundation Policy Seminar).
- Our Time to Serve (March 1, 1991).
- Planning Virginia's Educational Future (July 25, 1999).
- Political Arithmetic: Social Sciences, Scientific Revolution, Political Founding (June 2, 2004).
- Politics: A President's Business -- The Federalist Papers View of Executive Power (November 30, 1989).
- Pride in Liberty (November 1990).
- The Promise of America (March 15-16, 1988).
- Questioning What Everyone Knows: The Art of Political Inquiry (March 16, 1982).
- Race in 21st Century America (March 22, 1999).
- Radicals and Librarians: Finding Inspiration in Black History (February 22, 2005) [published by Kent State University, Library & Media Services, 2005].
- Remarks at Virginia's State Legislative Black Caucus (November, 7, 1998).
- Remarks Before the North Carolina State Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights (October 27, 1988).
- Remarks Made Before the 5th Annual Conference of the Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Coalition (October 25, 1989).
- Remarks to the Los Angeles County Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (April 25, 1991).
- The Residential College: Future Prospects (July 20-25, 1997).
- Rethinking Uncle Tom: Wrong Turns in Black History (March 25, 2005).
- Rights and Responsibilities: Viewing the Constitution as the Solution Not the Problem (May 5, 1988) [Published in Lincoln Review vol. 9, no. 1 (Fall 1988): 17-25. [PDF file].
- School Based Clinics - Contraceptives (April 1988).
- The State of Conservatism (February 21, 1990).
- State Sovereignty and Global Community in the 21st Century (March 29-31, 1996).
- Statement before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations (March 22, 1989).
- Statement before the House Committee on Education and Labor... Concerning the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1985 (March 22, 1985) [PDF file].
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- Statement before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives (September 9, 2003).
- Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights (April 27, 1989).
- Testimony to the Committee on Government Affairs, U.S. Senate (July 27, 1989) [PDF file].
- The Student Aid Game: It's Not Just the Numbers That Count (October 26, 1998) [PDF].
- That Politics is Necessary . . . A Response to Nozick's Anarchy (April 26, 1977, lecture delivered before the Delta Epsilon chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha).
- That Politics Is Nobody's Business: A Note on the Problem of Education in Plato's Republic (July 1979).
- That Prudence Is a True Supposition: A Note on a Problem in Aristotle (April 4, 1978).
- Thoughtful Negligence (August 11, 1989).
- True American Sovereignty (December 14, 1991).
- The Truth About Citizenship: An Outline (initially titled, "The Truth About Politics") (July 4-7, 1994) [published in Cardoza Journal of International and Comparative Law (Summer 1996) v. 4, no. 2: 355-372].
- Tocqueville and Equality - A Lecture (September 27, 1995).
- Tocqueville's Calliclean Dilemma: The Two Equalities (August 28, 2002).
- Uncle Tom's Cabin Engages the Canon (April 9, 2005).
- The Virginia Plan for Higher Education: An Institutional and Communal Creation (January 29, 1999).
- The Vital Importance of Association in Democratic Life and Experience (April 16, 1999) PDF version.
- What Can We Learn from Graduation Rates? (December 8, 1998).
- What's Wrong With Busing?
- Why Did Washington Succeed? (October 26-27, 1999).
- Why I am Still Black (February 20, 1991) [published in Newsday (September 23, 1991) v. 41].
- Why Liberty? The Legacy of Pierre F. Goodrich (January 17-18, 1995).
- Why We Can't Wait (September 18, 1998).
- Women and Education (May 14, 1999).