Wilfred M. McClay is the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, where is also professor of history. Among his books are the award-winning Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, The Student’s Guide to U.S. History, Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America, Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, and Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Public Life in Modern America. He was appointed in 2002 to membership on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory...
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Wilfred McClay of the University of Oklahoma delivers an address entitled “Preconditions for Active Citizenship”. The lecture was delivered as part of the Acton Institute's "Reclaiming the West: Public Spirit and Public Virtue" conference in Washington, D.C.
