After serving in prison, Chuck Colson—known as President Nixon’s “hatchet man”—became an evangelical author and criminal justice reform advocate. At this vintage 2010 Socrates in the City event in New York City, Mr. Colson discusses his six-part video series called DOING THE RIGHT THING, exploring what he perceives as America’s crisis of ethics in every sphere of public life including the government, education, and market place.

The eminent political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain examines the origins and meanings of “sovereignty” as it relates to all the ways we attempt to explain our world: God, state, and self. This 2010 lecture, hosted by Eric Metaxas, ends with a lively Q&A and was originally part of Dr. Elshtain’s 2006 Gifford Lectures.

Mosab Hassan Yousef was born in Bir Zeit, near Ramallah on the West Bank in 1978. His father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, is a founding leader of terrorist organization Hamas. Yousef was an integral part of the movement, for which he was imprisoned several times by the Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence service. He withstood torture in prison only to discover Hamas was torturing its own people in a relentless search for collaborators. He began to question who his enemies really were–Israel? Hamas? America?

Jennifer Roback Morse was the founder and President of the Ruth Institute (2008-2013), a global non-profit organization focused on keeping the family together, protecting the rights of children and helping the millions of people who have been harmed by family breakdown. She is the Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.

Socrates in the City guest lecturer Os Guinness presents the question: can freedom last forever? He discusses the framers’ forgotten question and asks how America is doing today.

Watch the great Socrates in the City debate with Dinesh D’Souza and Peter Singer: Is God the source of morality? This conversation took place in September 2010.