Love is a Battle: James Baldwin's Patriotism (INT 100/201 Approved)

Wednesday, November 12, 2025
4:30 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Community, Faculty, Staff, Students

What does it mean to love a country, to love place, to love home? These are questions Dr. Nicholas Buccola, Professor of Humanism and Ethics in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College, will explore in his talk on the role that love plays in James Baldwin's political philosophy. Please join the Political Science Department for this event. Refreshments will be served.

Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the author of One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal, which will be published by Princeton University Press in October 2025. His previous books include The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University Press, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). He is the editor of The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches (Hackett, 2016) and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2016). His essays have appeared in scholarly journals including The Review of Politics and American Political Thought as well as popular outlets such as The New York Times, Salon, The Baltimore Sun, and Dissent.

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Kirkhoff Hall, Pere Marquette Room 2204

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Political Science Department

(616) 331-2320

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This event was added to the calendar by Karen Zivi (zivik@gvsu.edu) on Monday, August 18, 2025 and was last updated on Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 9:33 a.m.