James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, often called simply the Madison Program, is a scholarly institute within the Department of Politics at Princeton University that is "dedicated to exploring enduring questions of American constitutional law and Western political thought."[1]
The Madison Program was founded in 2002 and is headed by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University.[2] According to Jane Mayer, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, it was founded as a "beachhead" of the "conservative cells" established by the conservative John M. Olin Foundation at "the most influential schools in order to gain the greatest leverage". The Olin Foundation made $525,000 in grant money available. According to Mayer, George is "an outspoken social and religious conservative."[3]
The Program has been praised for its ability to enable cooperation between Catholic and Evangelical Christians.[4]
References
- ↑ "Home - James Madison Program". web.princeton.edu.
- ↑ Kirkpatrick, David D. "Robert P. George, the Conservative-Christian Big Thinker".
- ↑ Mayer, Jane (12 February 2016). "How Right-Wing Billionaires Infiltrated Higher Education". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ Faith in the halls of power: how evangelicals joined the American elite, D. Michael Lindsay, Oxford University Press US, 2007, p. 86