How New Is This?

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When i came to the united states as a graduate student, i started my ph d. In two thousand seven adte time, felt that we could play with ideas and try and seek for truth in a way that didn't have any ttendant fears. That's at least when i began to perceive students were somewhat unwilling to speak their minds or put proposals on the table in class discussion. And now, ther seems to be a fear that a lot of people feel all the time, but it actually feels much more powerless now than it id i the past.

Robert P. George is an American legal scholar and political philosopher. The McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, George is considered one of the foremost conservative intellectuals in America, and advocates a theory of natural law consistent with Catholic belief. With Cornel West, he authored a statement on “Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression.”

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Robert P. George discuss the political philosophy of John Rawls, why democratic republics can’t function without free speech, and what relevance the first principles of conservatism do or don't retain today.

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