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"If old truths are to retain their hold on men’s minds, they must be restated in the language and concepts of successive generations."
F. A. Hayek

Our Visiting Fellows

Tevi Troy

Historical lessons from previous challenges to liberalism that are relevant to today
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Ashley Berner

The case for educational pluralism to improve student outcome and foster viewpoint diversity
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Tara Isabella Burton

The “theology of the internet” and how it shapes our shared culture and moral assumptions
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Luke Sheahan

Monism vs pluralism and how these frameworks affect the public’s treatment of the First Amendment and Freedom of Association
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Graedon Zorzi

The ideas of John Lock as foundational to a liberal democratic republic and the establishment of a more robust pluralism
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Sheena Mason

The Theory of Racelessness, a case for antirace(ism) to transcend the conventional understanding of race
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Kevin Vallier

Exploring religious pluralism, trends in social trust, and catholic integralism
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Joan McGregor

Fostering epistemic virtues and habits that form moral capital among the next generations of students
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