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Toward a More Perfect Union:

Restoring the Lost Art of Disagreement on College Campuses

FEBRUARY 23, 2021 | 8-9 PM

Professors Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein have reflected much on how to restore the “lost art of disagreement” in the time since they were pushed out of long-time professorships at Evergreen State College by bullying protests. They argue that to the extent that weaponized protest against dissent becomes the norm in a divided America, our society risks becoming more a battleground than a place for thoughtful and sensitive discourse in academia, media, and workplaces.

Join them for a discussion on how to rebuild human-scale dialogues in “Restoring the Lost Art of Disagreement,” a live webinar on February 23 at 8 PM Eastern. The webinar is part of a series on bridging divisions in America today by the Tucker-Brawley-Ramer Initiative for informed dialogue in the liberal arts tradition, of the Bucknell Program for American Leadership and Citizenship, an association of Bucknell faculty and Bucknellians, and co-sponsored by the Open Discourse Coalition.

Watch the three-part documentary on the protests that drove Profs. Heying and Weinstein from Evergreen State College:

Note: According to Evergreen State College’s statistics, its enrollment dropped from 3,339 full-time equivalent students in 2017 (the year of the protests) to 2,209 in 2020, from 3,924 to 2,851 in terms of total head count of students.