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As Reed College in Oregon shows, left v left clashes can be equally vitriolic.

The content and trajectory of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy have defied the expectations of many of his supporters as well as his critics across the political spectrum. The president has moved a long way from his campaign positions of denigrating the value of America’s democratic alliances and renouncing America’s role as the world’s default power.

"Through my involvement in the CWCTP and the Global Engineering Residential Academic Program, I decided that having a knowledge of another language increases a student’s basic understanding for culture, mental framework, and multi-cultural interactions. As an individual who has enjoyed traveling and discussing cultural variations through politics and philosophy, I...

"Thanks to the Summer travel grant from the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP), I was able to travel to Poland and take part in a 7-week, intensive Polish language course. My dissertation project, for the Department of History, focuses on space, race, and memory as embodied in...

Classes have begun at CU and so it's time for us to begin sharing our plans for the upcoming year. As you'll see, there's a lot happening at the Center this year --- more than ever before --- and it feels to all of us here like our work has never been more necessary. Even if civil discourse looks like an impossible dream in many parts of our society, we mean to continue, in every way we can, to push ahead with the humble thought that people can come together to exchange ideas in a way that is friendly even while frank, provocative without being unfair, and passionate while still honoring the truth. We hope to see you at some of our events this year. - Robert Pasnau, Director, CWCTP

The University of Colorado Boulder launched a program in 2013 to bring conservative professors to its ultraliberal campus. The first person tapped, Steven Hayward, stirred up controversy during his yearlong position, but administrators didn't mind. Other liberal colleges have begun to adopt similar programs to diversify thought on their campuses.

"I am happy to report that the lectures were well-attended and that there were none of the disturbances or protests that we’ve seen on other campuses throughout the U.S. over the past few years. Audience members asked probing questions, but they were clearly offered in a spirit of inquiry and truth-seeking, even when it was obvious that the questioner strongly disagreed with the speaker. That’s the sort of critical dialogue that many of us—regardless of our political views—believe to be integral to university life."

https://jmp.princeton.edu/statement

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-opening-of-the-liberal-mind-1494515186

http://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/blank/what-is-intellectual-humility/