Dialogue Across Difference in a Polarized America: Should Americans Confront Public Disputes with Relationship or Hate?

Jumping off Marcia Pally’s new book, Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality, leading thinkers on law, religion, and public policy will explore how our basic understanding of the human situation creates either a constructive or destructive framework for policies in economics, politics, and law.

Panel:

Prof. Harvey Cox, the Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard

Prof. E.J. Dionne, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a columnist for the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and MSNBC, and a professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University

Prof. Marcia Pally, New York University–Multilingual Multicultural Studies; Fordham University, and guest professor at the Theology Faculty of Humboldt University, Berlin.

Prof. Aristotle Papanikolaou, the Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Orthodox Theology and Culture at Fordham University, and the Co-Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center

Prof. Russell Pearce, the Edward & Marilyn Bellet Chair in Legal Ethics, Morality & Religion at Fordham University School of Law

Moderator:

Prof. Nadine Strossen, the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School and former President of the American Civil Liberties Union.