Fall 2024 Center for Ethics Public Lecture: Nicholas Buccola

Each semester, the Center for Ethics invites distinguished academics to present their current work at the Center for Ethics Speaker Series. Since 2001, the Center for Ethics has hosted more than 200 guest speakers. The Center for Ethics public lectures are free and open to all members of the Tulane community as well as the general public.

On Thursday, September 26 at 4 PM, the Center for Ethics will host Nicholas Buccola, Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College for the Fall 2024 public lecture in the Diboll Gallery, Room 300 on the 3rd floor of the Malkin Sacks Commons. 

Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the author of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). He is the editor of The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches (Hackett, 2016) and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2016). His essays have appeared in scholarly journals including The Review of Politics and American Political Thought as well as popular outlets such as The New York Times, Salon, The Baltimore Sun, and Dissent. 

This Center for Ethics Public Lecture is being co-sponsored by Baldwin & Co. Bookstore.