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A Conversation with Robert Doar and Professor Jack Goldsmith

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Exactly eleven weeks after the inauguration of President Trump, Intellectual Vitality and the Institute of Politics’ Conservative Coalition partnered to bring Robert Doar – president of famed conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute – to Harvard for a conversation about the state of civil discourse in the country. Doar was joined by the Learned Hand…

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Social media exerts a powerful influence on college campuses. Has the technology helped broker new connections across ideological difference? Or has it simply siphoned students into conversations with those who share their views? Read more in The Harvard Gazette…

We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite A Book Talk with Musa Al-Gharbi

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“Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded.In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, and tied to the rise of a new elite—the symbolic capitalists.” (via Princeton Press) On the…

Ethics in Your World: What We Can’t Burn with Eve Driver and Tom Osborn

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On February 27th, three dozen students and Harvard affiliates gathered in the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics for a roundtable discussion with Eve Driver ‘20 and Tom Osborn ‘20, authors of What We Can’t Burn: Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future. Having met while attending Harvard College, Eve and…