Event Videos
The Religious Roots of Communication Revolutions
October 15, 2025
Robert D. Woodberry addresses the question, "How religion shapes the origins and consequences of technology?" Printing and movable-type fonts were invented in Mesopotamia and East Asia long before they appeared in Europe. But the Protestant desire for everyone to read the Bible in their own language transformed their uses and unleashed a vernacular revolution. We cannot understand modernity without it.
Robert Parham: What Is Money?
November 18, 2024
RobertParham guide us on a journey through time to explore the story of money from the Great Sumerian Empire to Bitcoin. What is it? How do we get it? And what does it have to do with depression, equity, and morality?
God's Wordsmith
April 18, 2023
Michael Gerson as remembered by Peter Wehner, David Brooks, and Scott Baker.
“Free Speech on College Campuses: Are we free to disagree?”
Lecture by David French, September 27, 2022
“Supply Chain Crisis: Decades in the Making,”
Lecture by Scott Lincicome, April 21, 2022
The End of Socialism
February 11, 2020
Dr, James Otteson, Executive Director of the BB & T Center for the Study of Capitalism and Teaching Professor of Political Economy at Wake Forest.
The Spiritual Dimension of Exercising Political Power
November 21, 2019
Dr. David Young, ’59, former Special Assistant to Henry Kissinger and founder of Oxford Analytica
The Role of Faith in the Public Square
October 29, 2019
Hon. Bill Haslam, former Governor of Tennessee, interview with David Iglesias
Love Your Enemies
April 2, 2019
Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, "Love Your Enemies: Saving America from the Culture of Contempt"
We Both Work…Who Does the Laundry?
September 26, 2018
Panelists: Kristin Colber-Baker ’86, Global Director, Mars, Inc.; Bonnie Wurzbacher ’77, former Chief Resource Dev. OFC and Sr. VP, Coca-Cola; Dr. Bryan McGraw, Dept. Chair/Assoc. Prof., Politics; Dr. Jeremy Cook, Asst. Prof., Economics
The Financial Crisis of 2008: A View from the Inside
September 24, 2018
Steve Preston, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 2008-2009
North Korea: Explaining the Enigma
February 12, 2018 presentation
Morse Tan '97, NIU Professor of Law at the time of the presentation has subsequently been confirmed as the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Nov. 20, 2019.
Robotics & Emerging Technologies: Friend or Foe of the American Worker
November 1, 2017
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Ph.D., President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies in Washington, D.C.