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Robert P. George isn’t a passive eyewitness of the proverbial tradition wars; he’s been an overly lively player. As a Catholic prison pupil and thinker at Princeton College, he used to be an influential opponent of Roe v. Wade and same-sex marriage, and gained a Presidential medal from George W. Bush. George decries the “decadence” of secular tradition, and, in 2016, he co-wrote an op-ed mentioning Donald Trump “manifestly unfit” to lend as President. Even though George disagrees with the Management’s ways to switch universities’ insurance policies by means of punishment, he is of the same opinion with its rivalry that campuses have develop into hotbeds of leftism that obstruct debate. He regards this no longer as a selected bad of the left however as “human nature”: “If conservatives had the kind of monopoly that liberals had,” George tells David Remnick, “I suspect we’d have the same situation, but just in reverse.” His fresh reserve, “Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment,” tries to chart a path again towards civil, functioning debate in a polarized family. “I encourage my students to take courses from people who disagree with me, like Cornel West and Peter Singer,” the extreme of whom is a debatable thinker of ethics. “Cornel and I teach together for this same reason. Peter invites his students to take my courses. That’s the way it should be.”
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