The aim of our lecture series is to reintroduce young people to the great cultural inheritance of our civilization: to the achievements in music, the arts, literature, philosophy, politics and other areas that have enabled human freedom and creativity to flourish like nowhere else.
Anticipating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Cicero in the City lecture series will explore the ideals, institutions, and individuals who built Western civilization and the American republic.
Inspired by the eloquence and statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln Lectures will explore the great speeches of Western civilization: from The Apology of Socrates to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to Winston Churchill’s “We Will Never Surrender” speech at the start of the Second World War…
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