Coffin Corner

The Institute for American Values

CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO JOIN

A CONVERSATION WITH

JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN

Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics,
Divinity School, The University of Chicago

ON

OUR CALL
TO CIVIL SOCIETY

HOSTED BY

DAVID BLANKENHORN

President of the Institute for American Values

Please join us for a wide-ranging and riveting discussion on the state of American political life and culture with Jean Bethke Elshtain, who is one of the nation's most prominent public intellectuals and whose body of critical thought has shaped elite opinion for a quarter of a century.

SEATING IS LIMITED. To reserve a seat, please RSVP to info@americanvalues.org OR 212-246-3942. Program will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

About the Panelist:

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, Divinity School, The University of Chicago, with appointments in Political Science and the Committee on International Relations. She holds The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom, Georgetown University.

Professor Elshtain's books include: Just War Theory (1991), Public Man, Private Woman (1993), Democracy on Trial (a New York Times' notable book for 1995); Augustine and the Limits of Politics (1998), Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy (2001), Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (named one of the best nonfiction books of 2003 by Publishers Weekly); and Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (2008).

In addition, Professor Elshtain is a prodigious contributor to journals of civic opinion on themes of democracy, ethical dilemmas, religion and politics, and international relations. In all, she has written more than five hundred essays in scholarly journals and journals of civic opinion, as well as serves as a contributing editor for The New Republic. Of her several hundred guest lectures at universities in the United States and abroad, over three dozen have been endowed lectureships. She is the recipient of countless awards and gave the prestigious 2008 Gifford Lectures.

Jean Bethke Elshtain has served as Chairman of the Board for the Institute of American Values since 1994.

About the Host:

David Blankenhorn is the founder and president of the Institute for American Values, a nonpartisan organization devoted to strengthening families and civil society in the U.S. and the world.

Blankenhorn is the author of Fatherless America (1995), The Future of Marriage (2007), and Thrift: A Cyclopedia (2008) and the co-editor of eight volumes, including Franklin's Thrift: The Lost History of an American Virtue (2009). A frequent lecturer, Blankenhorn's articles have appeared in scores of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Public Interest, First Things, and Christianity Today. He has been profiled by the New York Times, USA Today, CBS Evening News and other news organizations, and has been featured on numerous national television programs, including Oprah, 20/20, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Charlie Rose, ABC Evening News, and C-SPAN's Washington Perspectives.