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Since 1997, James Q. Wilson, one of America's leading social
scientists, has delivered an annual lecture on public policy
at the Manhattan Institute. Wilson, a former professor
at Harvard University and UCLA, has written many books, among
them The Moral Sense and The Marriage Problem. His
public service includes the chairmanship of the White House
Task Force on Crime in 1966 and the National Advisory Commission
on Drug Abuse Prevention from 1972 to 1973. A member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Wilson received
the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal
of Freedom, in July 2003.
2009 | If Heredity Explains Behavior, Do People Have Free Will?
2008 | Can
Genes Explain Our Politics
2007 | Christians,
Jews & Israel
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2006 | War
and the Mass Media
(An adaptation of this lecture was reprinted in OpinionJournal.com,
11-06-06)
2005
| Why
Is America More Religious than Europe?
2004 | Can
Muslim Nations Acquire Liberal Democracies?
2003 | Who
Becomes a Terrorist?
(This lecture was reprinted in the Winter 2004 issue of
City Journal)
2002 | Religion
and Freedom
(This lecture was reprinted in the Fall 2002 issue of
City Journal)
2001 | Why
Is Marriage in Trouble?
2000 | Public
Policy and the Media: Do We Get the Whole Story?
1999 | Why
Is Any Nation a Democracy?
1998 | Topic:
Connections Among Television, Guns and Violence
1997 | Making
Justice Swifter
(This lecture was reprinted in the Fall 1997 issue of
City Journal.)
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