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📌Important announcement 📌 @ilvalues

In this week’s podcast, we speak with Ildi Tillmann, a professor of Africana Studies at SUNY, Stony Brook. She shares with us both her challenges and triumphs in her journey through the unexpected politics of her chosen field. Watch it here: youtu.be/fv9YdpDS7J8

We're partnering with academic and author Brian Russell Graham to run a course on the Market Place of Ideas and the Importance of Epistemic Liberalism. The course is free, online, and starts on January 30th at 6PM GMT (1PM EST). To register, email info@counterweightsupport.com.

We're partnering with academic and author Brian Russell Graham to run a new course titled: The marketplace of Ideas and The Importance of Epistemic Liberalism. The course is free, online, and starts on 30th January 2023 at 6pm (UK). To sign up, email info@counterweightsupport.com

In this week’s podcast, our hosts Mike Burke & Elizabeth Spievak discuss activism as a heroic quest for symbolic immortality, terror management, the pandemic, and why critical social justice and woke activism exploded during that period. Watch it here: youtu.be/GUG4HinLgwk

Why we value liberalism...

If your employer introduces mandatory pronoun declaration, here's a letter you can use to start a dialogue.

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Here are 8 things you don't need to believe to reject extremist ideologies:

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In this week’s podcast, our hosts Mike Burke and Elizabeth Spievak talk about “groupthink” and its application to cancel culture. Watch it here: youtu.be/ka6Btf_bk44

If your employer introduces mandatory reading lists at your workplace, here's how you can respond...