"The Empire of Guilt and the Future of Progress"

Wilfred M. McClay, Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma - Professor McClay is a prize-winning scholar of American intellectual and cultural history. He served for eleven years on the National Council on the Humanities and is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. A prolific essayist, he is author of Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America; and The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America.