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The Founders, the American Enlightenment, and Religious Freedom by George F. Will

Address Delivered at the Levy Forum for Open Discourse Speaker Series
January 19, 2024 by George F. Will

The Levy Forum is a speaker series hosted at the Palm Beach Synagogue, sponsored by ACTA board member Paul Levy and ACTA. The goal of these events is to promote the epistemic virtues that ACTA seeks to promote on university campuses across the country, such as curiosity, objectivity, and wisdom. The Levy Forum is dedicated to exploring the most urgent social and political topics of our times in a spirit of fearless inquiry.

Dr. Will is a writer and political commentator whose twice-weekly column has appeared in the Washington Post since 1974. His books cover subjects ranging from baseball to statecraft, and he is the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

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