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Pursue Truth: Never Fear, Never Waver

October 31, 2024

ACTA’s Hero of Intellectual Freedom award was presented to Roland G. Fryer, Jr., professor of economics at Harvard University. Called “the most gifted economist of his generation,” his scholarship on inequality, police use of force, and the academic achievement gap is characterized by an uncompromising adherence to data. Professor Fryer is calling higher education back to its once central and sacred foundation—that to uncover the truth, intellectual assumptions must be met with an open mind and subjected to rigorous analysis. Ian Rowe, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, delivered the tribute to Dr. Fryer.

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