Robert P. George recently offered a thoughtful response upon receiving the Sidney Hook Memorial Award at the meeting of the National Association of Scholars in Cambridge, Massachusetts.(While We're At It)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, March, 2008 by Neuhaus, Richard John

Robert P. George recently offered a thoughtful response upon receiving the Sidney Hook Memorial Award at the meeting of the National Association of Scholars in Cambridge, Massachusetts. George is a frequent contributor to these pages, the Erasmus Lecturer of 2007, and professor of jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals at Princeton University.

The energy and diversity of intellectual life at Princeton, due in large part to the work of Robby George, is a thing to behold. In his address, he notes that similar initiatives are well advanced at Brown and Duke. So what does George think is going on? "We demand more than freedom for ourselves and others who dissent from campus orthodoxies, though we certainly demand that. We aim to...

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