Confident Pluralism: Ben Klutsey talks to John Inazu

Discourse Magazine Podcast

In this eleventh installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, sits down with John Inazu to discuss what changes in constitutional rules and inter-personal norms can be more effective at better fostering environments of patient, tolerant, and intellectually humble conversations.

Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion and Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He specializes in First Amendment freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion, and related questions of legal and political theory. His books include Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. He’s also the executive director of The Carver Project, an organization that empowers Christian faculty and students to serve and connect university, church, and society.

For a full transcript of this conversation, visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

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Resources:

John Inazu, Liberty's Refuge, the Forgotten Freedom of Assembly, https://www.jinazu.com/libertys-refuge

John Inazu, Confident Pluralism, Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference, https://www.jinazu.com/confident-pluralism

John Inazu and Tim Keller, Uncommon Ground, Living Faithfully in a World of Difference, https://www.jinazu.com/uncommon-ground

Carver Project, https://www.carverstl.org/

Ben Klutsey and Danielle Allen, A Matter of Trust, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2020/12/04/a-matter-of-trust/

Danielle Allen, Talking to Strangers, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo3636037.html

James Boyd White, Living Speech, https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138374/living-speech

John Inazu, The Purpose (and Limits) of the University, https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2018/iss5/1/

Alasdair Macintyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry, https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268018771/three-rival-versions-of-moral-enquiry/

James Davison Hunter, Faithful Presence, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730803.001.0001/acprof-9780199730803-chapter-18