Previous McDermott Lectures
1974 Jacques Barzun
1975 Herbert Marshall McLuhan
1976 Hans Georg Gadamer
1977 Malcolm Muggeridge
1978 Christian Norberg-Schulz & Edmund Bacon
1979 Mortimer Adler
1980 Erich Heller
1981 Paul Ricoeur
1982 J. Carter Brown
1983 Paul Weiss & Stanley I. Jaki
1984 Seymour Slive & Harvey C. Manfield, Jr.
1985 Steven Jay Gould, Douglas Hofstader, Stephen Toulmin, Steven Weinberg
1986 Walter Ong, S.J., Horton Foote, Donald W. Seldin, Frank E. Vandiver
1987 Errol E. Harris
1988 Allan Bloom, Donald A. Cowan, Louise S. Cowan, Paul Johnson
1989 David Tracy & Yehudi Menuhin
1990 Cedric Messina
1991 Stanley H. Rosen & Weiming Lu
1992 Eva T.H. Brann
1993 Leon Kass & Oliver Bernier
1994 Rene Girard
1995 Robert Sokolowski & Paul Goldberger
1997 Derek Wolcott
1998 Nigel Wood
1999 Francis Cardinal Arinze
2000 Francis Fukuyama
2001 Donald Kagan
2002 Bruce Cole
2004 Maya Lin
2006 Jonathan Miller
2007 Mikhail Gorbachev
2008 Mark Helprin
2014 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
2015 Nostra Aetate: Bishop Brian Farrell & Rabbi David Rosen
2016 General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)
2017 Krzysztof Zanussi
2018 Ross Douthat & Austen Ivereigh, moderated by John Allen Jr.
2022 Robert Alter