ACTA in the NewsInstitutional Neutrality
Is Institutional Neutrality Catching On?
Supporters of “institutional neutrality” are hailing the senate’s resolution as a victory, and Columbia is just the latest institution where leaders have adopted...
ACTA’s President Michael Poliakoff joins Paul Levy, a member of ACTA’s board of directors and the creator of the Levy Forum for Open Discourse at the Palm Beach Synagogue. Together they interview Dr. Glenn Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Economics at Brown University. Dr. Loury is one of the nation’s leading social critics on topics of racial inequality, the Black family, affirmative action, and identity politics.
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