A Public Lecture by Dr. Josiah Lippincott

A quarter century after 9/11, three years after the October 7th attacks in Israel, and six months into war with Iran, the American government remains as involved as ever in the Middle East. The basic question remains, however: is this involvement good for the American people?

In this talk, Dr. Josiah Lippincott of the Washington Center will challenge the bipartisan consensus undergirding American involvement in the Middle East, addressing common arguments for the supposed economic and national defense necessity of intervention.

Dr. Lippincott is Assistant Professor of Statesmanship at the Washington Center. He received his Ph.D. in Politics from Hillsdale College in 2026, and his M.A. and B.A. in Politics in 2022 and 2016, respectively. His research focuses on American political thought, classical and modern political philosophy, and the history of American foreign policy, including his dissertation on Franklin Roosevelt, the Pacific War, and the transformation of American foreign-policy principles from the Founding through World War II. Before entering academia, Lippincott served from 2016 to 2020 as a United States Marine Corps artillery officer with 5th Battalion, 11th Marines, including a 2019 deployment to Okinawa through the Unit Deployment Program. He was a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute in 2020.