We seek to support a culture of debate and deliberation through curricular and extracurricular programs, enabling our students to be better citizens, leaders, and stewards for our democracy.

The PPD brings together voices from across disciplines, institutions, and political ideologies. In the past two years, we’ve discussed meritocracy’s role in education, how we should tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, what it takes to establish dialogue across the political aisle, how to best secure free speech on college and university campuses, what public discourse will look like post-election, and how to define racial justice in the 21st century.

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