What do America’s memorials and monuments tell us about our nation and our identity as citizens? How should we memorialize past events and individuals?

What’s important now is not to let what happened to Fishtown be ignored. For whatever reasons, the culture that used to characterize working-class America — indeed, that made working-class America the spine of America’s civic culture — has come apart. Recognizing that this has happened is the indispensable first step in figuring out what to do next.

At this Bradley Lecture, Charles Murray will discuss how the divergence in class is affecting American life and what we can expect in the future.

In "Coming Apart," Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.

What does the rapid rise of the tea party movement mean for civic life?

At this event, a reading of Civil War veteran and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched with Fire" will serve as the starting point for a discussion of the meaning and importance of Memorial Day.

Even as charter schooling has been at the forefront of education reform efforts, we know remarkably little about how these schools approach this critical dimension of education. What have charter schools done with the opportunity to rethink civic education? Are there lessons to be learned? Are there challenges that impede their ability to teach citizenship?