If you’re a Corner reader and in the D.C. area, you might want to check out this event:

Hillsdale College, First Principles on First Fridays Lecture
“Progressives and the Constitution”
Washington, D.C. – Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. is hosting its next monthly “First Principles on First Fridays” lecture on Friday, May 1, 2009 from 7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. at the offices of Americans for Tax Reform, at 722 12th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005.
What does it mean to be a “Progressive”? What is the Progressives’ view of the Constitution? Is President Obama a Progressive? What is the relationship between Progressivism and pragmatism?
These are among the questions Ronald J. Pestritto will address in discussing the relationship of the Progressives and the Constitution. A scholar whose work has focused on Woodrow Wilson, Pestritto will explore the intellectual roots of contemporary American Progressivism, including the debt they owe to Wilson, John Dewey, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Pestritto holds the Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution at Hillsdale College and is a senior fellow of the College’s Kirby Center, and of the Claremont Institute. Among his books are Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism and American Progressivism: A Reader, both of which have in recent weeks been among the top 100 best sellers at Amazon.com.
Please RSVP online by Wednesday, April 29