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Watch Art Pope speak with protesters
Civitas has over eight minutes’ worth of video. I hope the students reflect on the encounter. Anyone who truly cares about the spirit of higher education should. A true academic is not afraid of a different viewpoint.
Pope takes a detour, talks to protesters
About a dozen – maybe more; I didn’t take an exact count – protesters decided to demonstrate outside a Civitas Institute luncheon Thursday. The small crowd gathered to protest Art Pope, who was to speak at the Civitas luncheon, in which it released its latest poll data. Pope, whose foundation contributes to a number ofContinue Reading
How to Tell We’re Making a Difference
As a proud member of the Art Pope Puppet Show, I was delighted to read the Independent Weekly‘s breathless, near-paranoid account of “Art Pope’s conservative empire.” Of particular interest to me was this bit about the Pope Center (since I work here, naturally): “A perennial complaint from the Pope Center is that the UNC faculty,Continue Reading