Wisdom Conversations

A recent generation of Americans has grown more open to communism and socialism than at any point in America’s history. For many, the appeal is common sensical: rising costs, widening inequality, institutional distrust, and a sense that the American promise is beyond grasp. The question deserves a serious answer and not just slogans.

This fall, Cornerstone University invites you to Why Not Communism?, the next installment of our Wisdom Conversations series. Together we’ll examine the moral, economic, and spiritual claims of collectivist ideologies, the historical record of where they have led, and the deeper human longings they attempt to address. More importantly, we’ll ask what a free, faithful, and flourishing America should offer in their place.

This is not a lecture. It is a rigorous, civil conservation unafraid of hard questions. Moderated by Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riaño, president of Cornerstone University, we’ll bring together some of the best minds to help us consider:

• Why communism and socialism continue to attract each new generation, despite a century of evidence.
• What the Christian worldview and related moral tradition has to say about property, work, community, and the dignity of the human person.
• How free societies can address real injustices without surrendering the freedom and liberty that make repair and flourishing possible.
• What parents, pastors, educators, and citizens can do now to prepare the next generation for the ideological contests ahead.

Whether you’re a student wrestling with these ideas for the first time, a leader shaping institutions, or a citizen who senses that something important is at stake, you belong in this conversation. Join us!