Brauer Lecture Series

Brauer Lecture Series 2025: Class, Status, and Luxury Beliefs

The Brauer Lecture: 4 P.M. Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Join us at 4 P.M. on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in the Church of St. Mary, the Virgin, Aldermanbury for the Fourth Annual Brauer Lecture featuring Rob Henderson. 

Rob Henderson is the best-selling author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. He grew up in foster homes in Los Angeles and in the rural town of Red Bluff, California. After enlisting in the U.S. Air Force at the age of 17, he subsequently attended Yale University on the GI Bill and was then awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a PhD in psychology in 2022. He is currently a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor for City Journal. Rob’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe, among other outlets, and his Substack newsletter is sent each week to more than 60,000 subscribers.

About the Brauer Lecture Series

Sponsored in conjunction with the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, the Brauer Lecture Series seeks to highlight the leadership characteristics of its speakers. Featured lecturers are encouraged to discuss how their values guide their daily lives while also highlighting the importance free-market economics.

This lecture series is designed to bring to campus world-renowned speakers who will address the contributions of free enterprise to economic growth, public policy, and world affairs.

The Brauer Lecture Series is made possible by a generous gift from Stephen F., ’67 ΦΔΘ, and Camilla T. Brauer of St. Louis, MO