At different times and in different places, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., two of the world’s most influential leaders of social change, found
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Shaun King In July 2016, a video of an African-American man pulled over for a traffic stop surfaced on social media. The video depicted the
Every day, Sally Kohn’s career challenges her to listen to and respect different opinions. As a writer, progressive activist and CNN political commentator, Kohn’s work requires
Chief Executive Officer of PEN America Suzanne Nossel lectures on "The Future of Free Speech" Tuesday, July 24, 2018 in the Amphitheater. RILEY ROBINSON/ STAFF
The Rev. Otis Moss III. Monday, July 23, 2018 in the Hall of Philosophy. RILEY ROBINSON/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER With great power comes great responsibility, and
As a seasoned historian and W.E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University in Ohio, Steven Conn has studied the origin of American intellectual ideas.
Dissent, Ralph Young argued, is central to American history. “American history has traditionally been taught emphasizing exploits of presidents, politicians, diplomats and generals,” he said.
The First Amendment protects one’s right to freedom of expression, and Suzanne Nossel will explain why this right needs to be protected. At 10:45 a.m.
In his 1989 article and later book, “The End of History?,” the historian Francis Fukuyama declared that the collapse of the Soviet Union and its
As senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, the Rev. Otis Moss III leads more than 8,500 congregants MOSS in prayer and
Ralph Young goes against the grain. Young, a history professor at Temple University and author of Dissent: The History of an American Idea will provide
In the fourth edition of the Interfaith Friday Series, the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, vice president of religion, moderated a number of questions with
Dissent is uncomfortable and denounced in American society, according to Ersula Ore. But she also said dissent is not only a necessary component of democracy,
A once-banned field in the Red State, sociology is making a comeback — and it’s helping Masha Gessen imagine a Russia, post-Vladimir Putin. At the
Gorbachev, Lenin, Stalin and Putin went beyond imagining the godless world John Lennon sang about — they built it. At 2 p.m. Thursday, July 19,
Guest Column by Steven Conn There have always been white supremacists among us. In that sense what we witnessed in Charlottesville was part of a