Pacifica's The Great Conversation held a special lecture with featured speaker, Dr. Charles R. Kesler, marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the enduring American experiment it set in motion. The event was also marked by a musical performance by Pacifica faculty and staff and a student welcome by Robert McPhie ('26). Pacifica's Board Chairman, Keith Carlson gave the speaker introduction.

Together, we reflected on the following questions:

What did 1776 assert about the human person, liberty, and self-government?

What has that promise produced - at its best-and what does it require of us now?

About Dr. Charles R. Kesler:

A Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, and longtime Editor of the Claremont Review of Books. Dr. Kesler is a leading scholar of American constitutionalism and political thought-and an author and editor of major works on the American founding and the regime it established, including The Crisis ofthe Two Constitutions, I Am the Change, Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding, as well as an LY influential edition of The Federalist Papers.