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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Fight For Our Classrooms
ACTA's President Michael Poliakoff interviews Aayan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born, Dutch-American writer, human rights activist and former politician...
The Levy Forum is a speaker series hosted at the Palm Beach Synagogue, sponsored by ACTA board member Paul Levy and ACTA. The goal of these events is to promote the epistemic virtues that ACTA seeks to promote on university campuses across the country, such as curiosity, objectivity, and wisdom. The Levy Forum is dedicated to exploring the most urgent social and political topics of our times in a spirit of fearless inquiry.
Ms. Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American human rights activist, best-selling author, and former member of the Dutch Parliament. She has advocated for the rights of Muslim women and has called upon the Islamic world to embrace democratic values of freedom and self-determination from which human flourishing can arise. As campuses explode with virulent antisemitic support for Hamas terrorism, Ayaan’s message, based on her personal escape under harrowing circumstances from radical Islam, is urgently important.
ACTA's President Michael Poliakoff interviews Aayan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born, Dutch-American writer, human rights activist and former politician...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a fellow of the Future of Democracy Project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and founder of the AHA Foundation, and Niall Ferguson, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, received the 2016 Philip […]
These tributes were given by Senator John McCain, Christina Hoff Sommers, Robert Zoellick, and Louise Mirrer in honor of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Niall Ferguson, ACTA's 2016 recipients of the Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education.
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