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We would like to remind our young readers that the Claremont Institute is now accepting applications for its 2014 Publius Fellowship in political thought and journalism.
Since 1979, this annual fellowship has hosted a group of seniors, recent college graduates, and graduate students pursuing politics, academia, journalism, or related fields, for a two-week retreat of rigorous, conservative discussion on the history of American political theory. This year’s course (June 21–July 6) takes place in Newport Beach, California. Distinguished scholars from a variety of fields will lead daily seminars and “relaxed evening symposia” covering a wide range of American political thought and history—from Reconstruction to the New Deal and the Great Society.
The Publius Fellowship is an homage—in name and practice—to Madison and Hamilton’s Federalist papers, which were written to defend the brand new Constitution from the dissent it received before its ink had dried. The papers’ authors used the penname “Publius” in honor of Publius Valerius Publicola, one of the first elected Roman consuls who helped usher in the Republic after the monarchy had been overthrown.
The fellowship’s mission is to “restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national public life.” By way of critical discussion of historical political issues in the context of modern ones, the fellowship aims to preserve Madison and Hamilton’s defense of the Constitution and to keep it as urgent today as it was when it was written.
Applications for this year’s Publius Fellowship will be accepted through February 28. The fellowship includes a stipend of $1,500 in addition to a budget of up to $700 for travel expenses. For more information on the fellowship and on how to apply, visit The Claremont Institute’s website.