Lectures
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Remarks on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5109779/user-clip-flagg-taylor-gulag-archipelago
Banned Books and Censorship, The American Idea, The Ashbrook Center (March 21, 2023)
Communism and Film, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (August 3, 2022)
Marxist and Communist Ideology: Its History and a Warning for Today With Jonathan Brent, David Satter, and Flagg Taylor, Victims of Communist Memorial Foundation (June 14, 2022 via Zoom)
Václav Havel and the Problem of Dissent, Clemson University (February 2022)
Totalitarianism and the Defense of Personhood, Catholic Medical Association Annual Conference (September 2018)
The Enduring Significance of Charter 77, Embassy of the Czech Republic (February 2017)
Czechoslovakia and Charter 77, Texas Lutheran University (October 2015)
Skidmore College Courses
Core Courses in Political Science
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Classical Political Thought
Upper-Level Courses in Political Philosophy
Liberty, Commerce, and the Moral Life
Capitalism and its Critics
Rousseau’s Political Philosophy
Václav Havel: Playwright, Dissident, President
The Politics of Dystopia
First-Year Seminars
The Politics of Eros
Courses in American Political Thought and Public Law
American Political Thought
African-American Political Thought
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Conflicts: Executive Power
Other
Politics and History of the Czech Lands (semester-long course including a 10-day travel seminar in Prague)
Hertog Foundation Courses
Dostoevsky’s Demons (Humanities at Hertog, Winter 2021)
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate (Humanities at Hertog, Summer 2021)
Living with Artificial Intelligence: Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Humanities at Hertog, Summer 2022)
The Wartime Statesmanship of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill (Political Studies Program, Summer 2023)
Democratic Statesmanship (Political Studies Program, Summer 2024)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago (Humanities at Hertog, Fall 2024)
Tikvah Fund
Can Liberty and Order Coexist? A Study of Conservative Liberalism
