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Inside Academe Vol. XXVII No. 4

August 30, 2022 Download PDF

ACTA speaks with Columbia’s Roosevelt Montás about his new book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life, and Why They Matter for a New Generation. At MIT, alumnus John Chisholm urges fellow graduates to defend viewpoint diversity, part of ACTA’s growing work with the Alumni Free Speech Alliance to counter rising orthodoxy on campus. We call for transparency in university governance, spotlighting troubling developments at the University of Minnesota. Meanwhile, an ACTA–Braver Angels debate at Duke University showed how civil, structured dialogue can build the habits of democratic citizenship.

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