Dialogue Across Difference

Health care costs are now rising faster than inflation, wages, and the overall economy. Government programs are being scaled back rather than expanding to cover these costs. To make progress, we need to focus on the delivery of medical care and insist that payment be tied to the value of the services. Two of the country’s leading experts on redesigning U.S. health care to focus on value will join us for a discussion with Minnesota legislators to identify a practical agenda for action.

About this series:

For over ten years the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance has convened a series of public forums to explore health care reform issues. By fostering discussions among policy makers, stakeholders, and citizens, these forums examine the challenges and opportunities in health care reform and help ensure Minnesota’s legacy as a leader in individual and community health. This series is sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.

Donald Trump's reliance on racial resentments and coercion are not new to America but familiar to its history. Slavery and enduring racial disparities, the expulsion of immigrants including legal residents, and suspension of constitutional rights are recurring themes since the Republic's founding. America is not defined, however, by backlash alone. Again and again, Americans recovered by fighting for the rights to speak, assemble, and vote and demanding civic inclusiveness and representative institutions of governance. What are the lessons of America's history of illiberalism and democratic resurgence in the age of Donald Trump?

This Event was held in collaboration with Westminster Town Hall Forum

American politics faces enormous challenges. Partisan divisions are at historic levels not seen since the Civil War. Some politicians are using redistricting to choose their voters and elections are awash in money. Russ Feingold, former US Senator from Wisconsin, joins us to talk about America's future. In addition to his Senate career, he served as a U.S. special envoy to Africa and taught in the law schools of Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and Marquette. He also served as president of the American Constitution Society. In 2022, he co-authored The Constitution in Jeopardy.

St Augustine forged the sacred foundations of Western Christianity – from original sin to God’s grace. Pope Leo’s spiritual home is in the Augustinian religious order.

Augustine was born in Africa and his identity as an African permeates his founding role in Christianity’s beginnings. Catherine Conybeare’s Augustine the African tells his life story, revealing profound questions about Christianity and identity that bear on contemporary debates about race.

Professor Conybeare is joined by scholars of premodern religion and contemporary debates about race.

Joining the conversation will be:

-Professor Andrea Sterk

-Professor Andrew Gallia

-Professor Dwight Lewis Jr.

Over the past 40 years, the campaign to “get tough on crime” has been redesigned to generate vast revenue streams for governments and corporations. Today, practices that criminalize, police, and punish serve a second purpose as tools of resource extraction, disproportionately targeting low-income communities of color.

Legal Plunder by Joshua Page and Joe Soss investigates the origins, operations, and consequences of this enterprise.

The authors are joined by a panel of policy makers, researchers, and commentators that span the ideological spectrum from the left to libertarian including Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin in an event moderated by University of Minnesota Professor Karen Ho.

President Biden's National Security Advisor - Jake Sullivan - reflects on the administration's policies and on the future of America on the world stage.

About the series:

The Nakasaka Dialogues stimulate conversations about the state of public life and encourage progress toward our shared bonds.

This event series is made possible by a generous contribution from Humphrey School of Public Affairs alumnus Kiyoshi Nakasaka.

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Speech on campus is treacherous. It is scrutinized by universities unnerved by the risk of punishment by the federal government. Speech faces another threat – a left-oriented conformist spirit on many campuses that recognizes certain ideas and rules out others on such topics as Israel and Gaza, “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” transgender issues, and more.

Pamela Paul, a courageous New York Times columnist who bucks the progressive cannon from the left, visits to implore students and faculty to be advocates for debate – and provides support for those willing to take the risks of speaking up.

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What is Donald Trump's economic policy? Stephen Moore argues that the President's reductions in taxes and regulations will boost economic growth, reduce inflation, and improve the standard of living of all Americans.

About this series:

Conservative Voices at the Humphrey School is a lecture series that highlights prominent conservative thinkers and public officials from a variety of policy areas and backgrounds. The series is presented by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance whose mission is to generate dialogue across difference by stimulating vigorous and civil debate.

Event made possible by the Minnesota Business Partnership.

The inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20th is a critical juncture in American politics. The occasion invites serious conversations about American history, politics, and democracy.

We welcome you to join the conversation with four prominent observers:

•Tom Edsall (New York Times, Columnist)

•Jacob Hacker (Department of Political Science, Yale University)

•Mae Ngai (Department of History, Columbia University)

•Nadia Urbinati (Department of Political Science, Columbia University)

The moderators are Lawrence Jacobs (Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota) and Desmond King (Department of Politics and Nuffield College, Oxford University)

Now that Donald Trump is the president-elect and Republicans will have full control of Congress, President-elect Trump’s government appointees and changes in congressional leadership will determine the policy direction of the incoming Congress and administration.

Vin Weber and Trent Lefkowitz from Mercury Public Affairs will map out the new power centers in Washington DC in a conversation moderated by Larry Jacobs.