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We host events that bring together policy experts, business leaders, and students. Learn more about our various series and upcoming events below.

Policy@McCombs

General audience discussions of current policy issues. Click here to see the speaker list.

Policy Lunch Seminar

Academic presentations on policy research from economists, statisticians, political scientists, etc. Click here to see the speaker list.

Causal Inference Seminar

Brings the best researchers from inside and outside UT Austin to present on causal methodology and applications to social science, economics, and policy. Click here to see the speaker list.

Engaging Orthodoxy

Not everything new is good. Click here to see the speaker list.

Upcoming Event

Debate: ‘Do open borders benefit humanity by reducing poverty and boosting the economy?’ with Bryan Caplan and Sohrab Ahmari

Location: Crum Auditorium, RRH 1.400 Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. Caplan wrote The Myth of the Rational Voter, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, Open Borders (co-authored with SMBC’s Zach Weinersmith), Labor Econ Versus the World, How Evil […]
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Debate: ‘Do open borders benefit humanity by reducing poverty and boosting the economy?’ with Bryan Caplan and Sohrab Ahmari

Upcoming Events

Debate: ‘Do open borders benefit humanity by reducing poverty and boosting the economy?’ with Bryan Caplan and Sohrab Ahmari

Location: Crum Auditorium, RRH 1.400 Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. Caplan wrote The Myth of the Rational Voter, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, Open Borders (co-authored with SMBC’s Zach Weinersmith), Labor Econ Versus the World, How Evil […]

Today October 9, 2024 at 5:30 pm

The Education of the Ambitious Soul with Shilo Brooks, PhD

Location: RRH 4.314 or via Zoom What is the proper education for young people who aspire to achieve political greatness? This lecture will examine the autobiographies of great leaders of the past​ in search of insights into the ways their educations and early lives prepared them for the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of great leadership. […]

November 8, 2024 at 12:00 pm
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Past Events

“International Relations and the Church” with Roberto Regoli, PhD.

Rowling Hall 5.420, 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78705, USA Co-sponsored with the Austin Institute, the inaugural lecture of the academic year is one not to be missed. Professor, author, and historian Fr. Roberto Regoli will guide us through some of the intricacies of Papal diplomacy, the oldest in the world. […]

September 6, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Bronwen McShea – When Church & State Were United: The Role of Powerful Women in Historically Christian Regimes

Location: RRH 4.314 or via Zoom here. Address: 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78705 There is a widespread belief that women in Western societies only began to wield public power and influence to a considerable extent after the rise of revolutionary, democratic liberalism. Drawing in part from her books La Duchesse (2023) and Women of […]

April 19, 2024 at 4:00 pm

We The Living Reading Group

We are meeting several times over the academic year to discuss Ayn Rand’s first novel “We The Living”: Meeting 1, 01/30: Part 2, Chapters 1–5 Meeting 2, 03/05: Part 2, Chapters 6–10 Meeting 3, 03/26: Part 2, Chapters 11-13 Meeting 4, 04/16: Part 2, Chapters 14–17

April 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm
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