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Edmund Santurri moderates a panel discussion featuring Justice Alan Page, Jackie MacMullan, and Nate Boyer.

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Spring 2022 Conversation Series:
Contemporary Controversies

Weber Scholars — Learn more

Weber Scholars

Led by Morrison Family Director of the Institute for Freedom and Community, The Weber Seminar is designed to acquaint students with moral, political and social ideas that challenge comfortable partisan opinions or reigning orthodoxies in the academy.

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The IFC regularly invites nationally recognized scholars, practitioners, and observers of public affairs to campus in order to connect the St. Olaf community to the people and debates that are shaping our country today.

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David Brooks, Keynote Speaker, Fall 2018

"College campuses are turning into places where people are just scared to talk...the good part is there is a lot of moral passion; people want to change the world. The bad part is you can't do it through hatred and bludgeoning. So to have an Institute [like this]...is a very brave and important thing, and it's really the only way forward."
-David Brooks, New York Times columnist, Patriotism, Nationalism, and the Idea of America

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