Matthew J. Ryan Center

Pictures from recent Ryan Center trip to Monticello, VA.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Matthew J. Ryan Center!

Enjoy reading George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation aloud at your dinner table tonight.

Founders Online: Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with the Pepperdine Policy Partners Program (P4). The P4 is a graduate program in Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Students affiliated with the Ryan Center and interested in public policy are encouraged to apply to the P4 in order to take advantage of special benefits available to students from P4 partners. More information, including the benefits available to students, is available here:

P4: Pepperdine Policy Partners Program | Pepperdine University | School of Public Policy Extended benefits to social science programs and/or like-minded co-curricular fellowships.

The Ryan Center is hosting Professor Robert P. George and Professor Cornel West for a conversation on "The Values, Virtues, and Challenges of a Liberal Arts Education."

Professors George and West are longtime friends despite -- or perhaps because of -- deep disagreements about some of the most important questions of our day. Join us as George and West discuss free speech, civility, and disciplined inquiry as friends and colleagues committed to a pursuit of truth.

This event will be in the Villanova Room in the Connelly Center on Vllanova's Campus on January 19th at 3:00.

Please come see these two leading public intellectuals demonstrate their commitment to reasoned inquiry and civil dialogue.