To Keep The Republic: Strengthening Democratic Principles At Home And Abroad

From Jon Meacham “One of the things we try to do here at Vanderbilt with this project is to look at unity … as a habit of heart and mind that enables us to negotiate the inherent differences, to live in tension with those differences, and not have a political… Read More

Robert Talisse This video essay, Overdoing Democracy: When Politics Saturates Our Lives, Civic Capacity Suffers, is brought to you by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy. Written and edited by Robert Talisse. Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and author… Read More

From Bill Frist “I was there really, just because of public service. I wanted to serve the country…I wanted to have an impact. Instead of taking care of one patient one-on-one, I knew if I had good policy I could take care of thousands, hundreds of thousands and, ultimately, millions of people if… Read More

In 1876, America weathered an economic roller coaster, a questionable presidential election and social unrest. Many envisioned the nation’s colleges and universities as the institutions best equipped to maintain the bonds between citizens and their elected government. However, a major in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, rather than a professor or college president, would provide the framework which enabled American colleges and universities to rise to global preeminence, when Henry Martyn Robert published the first edition of his Robert’s Rules of Order. Read More