McCormick Prof. of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals & Institutions, Princeton U. + Banjo Picker. unWoke/uncancellable
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Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) considers what academic freedom should require from universities and professors, emphasizing intellectual diversity, serious engagement with competing viewpoints, and confidence in students’ ability to think for themselves. lawliberty.org/forum/god-man…
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What role do social networks – and the precise nature and structure of social interactions – play in the production of public goods and in human welfare? What about social contagion? A thread on #HNL experiments with many thousands of participants from 2010 to the present. 1/
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Madison's Notes is out with a new episode: "Divining the Past."
Host @RyanShinkel interviews Anthony Grafton (@scaliger), the @Princeton history professor and author of Magus (2023), about conjectural history.
They discuss how Italian humanists stole manuscripts and deciphered old languages, Jesuits argued for a land bridge to the Americas, Renaissance magicians helped create modern science, and much more.
Please enjoy: apple.co/4qBjSdE
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Watch the full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=mZ79lfig…
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The Soviet Union’s constitution protected free speech. So why did those rights mean nothing?
@McCormickProf joins FIRE’s @RosenJeffrey to unpack the gap between having rights on paper and actually protecting them, and what that means for all of us today. 🧵👇
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The “near collapse of civic friendship is a catastrophic threat to public life,” @McCormickProf writes. “Restoring it depends on our capacity to practice civil discourse, which in turn requires us to acknowledge our fallibility.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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🎓"I'm not nearly as good at it as I thought I was."
HxA member @McCormickProf's new interview describes the rewards of adversarial collaboration and the momentum behind institutional neutrality.
George co-teaches and co-wrote a book with HxA advisory board member @CornelWest.
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ICYMI: We asked the brilliant @McCormickProf & @CornelWest - 250 years later, was the American Revolution worth it?
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What stands out most about my fellow West Virginians is that they are independent—and independent-minded, writes @McCormickProf
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Greg Forster (AASL) interviews Barry Prize winner Danielle Allen (Harvard) about how the university can cultivate truth-seeking qualities, why theory needs practice as much as practice needs theory, and the hunger for deeper inquiry in today’s students.
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We are urging Hofstra University to end its harassment investigation of Prof. Richard Himelfarb.
Criticism of a colleague’s proposal, even if blunt, is not discriminatory harassment. Universities cannot protect academic freedom and shared governance while treating ordinary faculty debate as a policy violation.
Read our letter to learn more: academicfreedom.org/wp-conte…
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On this Fidelity Month Day of Prayer and Fasting, let us join in prayer together for our spouses and families and for our country and communities.
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Yale’s governing body, the Yale Corporation, counted zero registered Republicans among its membership. There was a similar divergence in political donations at Yale, with $5.8 million given to Democrats and just over $102,000 to Republicans, a 50 to 1 ratio.
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Greg Forster (AASL) interviews Sylvester James Gates, Jr. (Maryland) about the life of the mind, the value of ancient ideas about education, and how the development of scientific theory drives technological innovation.
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“Fidelity is more than a promise. It is the foundation of trust. It creates the security that allows husbands, wives, and children to flourish.” @prsnlresp washingtonexaminer.com/resto…
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A beautiful display of the #FidelityMonth logo by St. George's Anglican Church (Colorado Springs)
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If you are in DC this Wednesday come by @AmericanFreedom and learn from the one and only, @McCormickProf!
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Friends in the Washington, DC area, you are welcome to register here for our Wednesday, June 17, 9:30 am Breakfast for Advancing American Freedom, where Tim Chapman and I will be discussing the Fidelity movement.
Second, our D.C. breakfast, featuring a conversation at @AmericanFreedom between @McCormickProf and @TimChapman on what unites us as a nation . June 17 at 9:30 AM.
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True freedom isn't about doing whatever you want. It's about self-mastery and contributing to the flourishing of ourselves and our communities.
Watch the full conversation with @McCormickProf 👉🏻 youtu.be/XnEw3NJY_X4