re: Emily Ghods: "Yesterday, I had the pleasure of joining The New Criterion’s James Panero and Roger Kimball for a luncheon sponsored by the Center for the American University under the Manhattan Institute. Held at the Harvard Club, the purpose of the luncheon was to discuss ways in which intellectually monochromatic college campuses can achieve intellectual color. The luncheon featured Brown University’s Professor of Political Science, John Tomasi, who has spear-headed an effort at Brown to achieve what he calls “the specter of intellectual pluralism.” (Professor Tomasi wryly noted that “coming from Brown, I can’t help but beginning by quoting Marx”—with these asides, he won his conservative audience instantly). /The Manhattan Institute—through its new VERITAS fund—is establishing a way to support professors who seek to establish intellectual centers of traditional political, philosophical, and economic thought on their campuses. For instance, at Princeton University, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George directs the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, and at Brown, Professor Tomasi runs the Political Theory Project—these centers not only organize speakers and debates on campus, but are able to hire highly qualified post-doctorate professors to teach small seminars grounded in Western thought or American civics. Professor Tomasi stressed that permanent intellectual change on college campuses is achieved only through the curriculum, which he calls the “pulse of a college campus.”..."...
hat tip: Anthony Paletta at Phi Beta Cons
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