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On December 5, 2023, the public, perhaps more than at any prior time, began to fathom just how untethered our institutions of higher learning...
ACTA’s President Michael Poliakoff interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born, Dutch-American writer, human rights activist and former politician and long-time friend of our organization. She is the author of best-selling books like Infidel (2007) Nomad (2010) and Heretic (2015). Now a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and Founder of the AHA Foundation, she regularly comments on today’s issues and offers a platform to exchange perspectives that lead to real solutions.
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Inside Academe Vol. XXIX No. 1
Front Page: Three decades ago, Alan Charles Kors sounded the alarm about the deterioration of respect for open inquiry and individual liberty on campus. In Still Waiting. . ., he lays bare the consequences of higher education’s failure to heed this warning and prepares us for the inevitable day of reckoning to come. The publication will be available for download in December on GoACTA.org.
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