Speaker Biographies

September 15, 2003

Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. She has been professor of philosophy at Clark University since 1981. She specializes in ethics and contemporary moral theory and has published many scholarly articles in such journals as the Journal of Philosophy and the New England Journal of Medicine. Sommers is editor of Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life -- one of the most popular ethics textbooks in the country. She became known to the wider public as the author of Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women. Her latest book The War Against Boys has received widespread attention and praise and was excerpted for a cover story in the Atlantic Monthly. It was included in the New York Times "Notable Books of the Year." Sommers is currently working on a new book One Nation Under Therapy, with Dr. Sally Satel, due out early in 2004.

Roger Scruton was professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London until 1990 and subsequently professor of Philosophy and University Professor at Boston University, in Boston. He has published over 30 books, including works of philosophy, literature and fiction, and his writings have been translated into most major languages. Scruton is also well known as a broadcaster and journalist. His most recent book is The West and the Rest, published by ISI Books and his forthcoming book is ŒDeath-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagneršs Tristan und Isoldeš to by published by OUP, New York this Fall. Scruton now lives with his wife and two small children in rural Wiltshire, where he and his wife run a small post-modern farm and public affairs consultancy.

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