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In this episode, Steve McGuire, ACTA’s Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom, interviews Justin Dyer, executive director of the Civitas Institute, which was recently established at the University of Texas (UT)–Austin. The Civitas Institute advances research and teaching on individual rights, civic virtue, the rule of law, and free enterprise. In addition to running the Civitas Institute, Dr. Dyer serves as professor of government and the Jack G. Taylor Regents Professor. His impressive record of teaching and scholarship focuses on American political thought, jurisprudence, and constitutionalism. Dr. Dyer was previously the founding director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from UT–Austin.

Download a transcript of the podcast HERE.

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