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Packed house for last night's event with @kathleen_stock1 and Jess Flanigan on assisted death.
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Tomorrow!
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If you're around @MIT tomorrow evening, what promises to be a substantive and provocative discussion on assisted death hosted by our friends at @MITCDP.
Free with registration! Best of luck, @byrne_a, @bradford_skow & team.
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Our first event this fall is on assisted death, with @kathleen_stock1 and Jessica Flanigan.
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Linda Rabieh from the Civil Discourse Project on teaching great books.
Glad that we're able to give a home to this kind of thoughtful commentary! We hope you enjoy this piece on teaching great books at @MIT from MIT Concourse's Linda Rabieh. Link in next post.
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The Civil Discourse Project features in US News & World Report
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Our next event is on April 6, with @Ayjchan, author (with
@mattwridley) of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, and recently at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
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Coming up on April 6 from our friends at @MITCDP. Should be a good discussion!
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Thanks to @JamesCantorPhD and Amy Tishelman for a very civil and interesting discussion. Also thanks to the @MIT students, especially those who initially thought this event should not take place, but who came anyway.
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On February 10 at 3:00 pm ET, we're partnering with @HAFFS_Harvard to present a virtual discussion with @TheFIREorg scholar @sarahemclaugh, author of Authoritarians in the Academy.
More, including how to RSVP, at this link:
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Hope to see you there!
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Eloquent essay by @SiddhuPachipala , an MIT Civil Discourse @MITCDP fellow. "A protest that persuades presupposes ... that those people marching over there are not unlike me, that they may be owed a hearing." bostonglobe.com/2026/01/22/o… via @BostonGlobe
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Community note: the topics @MITCDP has covered are in fact diverse.
The lack of viewpoint diversity on panels of viewpoint diversity should be of concern to everyone interested in viewpoint diversity. More views on science and space travel please! @dsallentess suggested that debating interesting science was the ideal but we're not there yet on campuses. Why not, I ask sincerely. Perhaps instead of staging debates on the same polarizing topics, on gender, gender fluidity, race, etc., debates should be staged about whether the US should build more dams, or raise taxes on electricity for heavy AI users, or whether we should invest in data centers in space would be more interesting. Do it now! And ignore the tired outrage put forward by @BrandonWarmke.
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Tomorrow I’ll be at MIT for a conversation about reforming universities. If you’re in the Boston area, please come join us and disagree with me.
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This will be a great event.
That said, there is a lot going on in this poster and none of it makes sense.
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Do universities need radical reform? October 14, with @dsallentess and @BrandonWarmke.
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