These tributes were given by Senator John McCain, Christina Hoff Sommers, Robert Zoellick, and Louise Mirrer in honor of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Niall Ferguson, ACTA's 2016 recipients of the Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education.
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