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The Witherspoon Institute

Our friends at the Witherspoon Institute, sponsor of the conference from which our new book The Meaning of Marriage was drawn, recently made the following announcement:

On December 3, 2005, the Witherspoon Institute purchased a three-story building located at 16 Stockton Street in the heart of the Princeton Boro. There are practically no buildings of this kind available in downtown Princeton. We happened to find the building and negotiate the purchase without the property ever being on the market.

The building will be suitable for occupancy by the summer of 2007. There is a period of lengthy and rather complex negotiations to acquire the necessary construction and use permits, and then there is the remodeling work itself.

This is an important step for an organization that will certainly bear much fruit in the coming years..  Anyone, especially alumni of Princeton University, looking for a worthwhile program to support should consider a gift to the Witherspoon Institute.

The Meaning of Marriage

We are pleased to announce the publication of The Meaning of Marriage: Family, State, Market, and Morals, edited by Robert P. George and Jean Bethke Elshtain, two of the most distinguished scholars that it has been our privilege to publish.

This volume brings together the best of contemporary scholarship on marriage from a variety of disciplines—history, ethics, economics, law and public policy, philosophy, sociology, psychiatry, political science—to inform, and reform, public debate. Rigorous yet accessible, these studies aim to rethink and re-present the case for marriage as a positive institution and ideal that is in the public interest and serves the common good.

The essays in this volume were presented to an audience of scholars, journalists, public policy experts, and other professionals, at a conference sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute. The contributors are among the most eminent authorities on marriage and public policy in the English-speaking world.

An excerpt from the book is available here. As always, our own books are available at SpencePublishing.com for at least 40% off, and shipping on orders over $30 is free.