Central to the Program is an engagement with classic texts and arguments, from Plato and Sophocles to Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Kant, and John Stuart Mill; to such philosophers and social thinkers as John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum, Tzvetan Todorov and Judith Shklar, not forgetting forays into such spaces as Tolstoy???s stunning War and Peace or the brilliant work of playwright Wole Soyinka.