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The Observant, the newspaper of Maastricht University in The Netherlands, interviewed CCLP senior fellow Irshad Manji just before she delivered the 2015 Tans Lecture. “Engage Wilders’ supporters with questions that will make them think” Tans Lecture 2015 by well-known critic of traditional mainstream Islam MAASTRICHT. “Moral courage means doing the right thing in the face…Continue Reading In the News: The Observant interviews Irshad Manji

This book review by CCLP senior fellow Irshad Manji was originally published in The New York Times. Civilization has a civility problem. This I learned long before Donald Trump. In 2005, the prominent “new atheist” Richard Dawkins shouted his disapproval at me — from the audience — during my TED talk at Oxford University. More…Continue Reading NYT Book Review: ‘Islam and the Future of Tolerance’ and ‘Not in God’s Name’

This article by CCLP senior fellow Matthew Dowd was originally published by ABC News. The storyline by many in the media goes as follows: the GOP is in dire straits, they are in the midst of tearing themselves apart by a civil war, they have a disorganized field of candidates, they are about to lose…Continue Reading Do Dems Have Much More to Lose in This Election Than the GOP?

CCLP Senior Research Fellow Mark Latonero has been named a Visiting Scholar at NYU‘s Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture, and Communication….Continue Reading Senior Research Fellow Latonero named NYU Visiting Scholar

WASHINGTON – John Lansing, the new CEO and Director of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, pulled no punches as he discussed a proposed reorganization of America’s international broadcasting: he said it’s a mistake. Ahead of Tuesday’s Senate hearing on options for changing the structure of U.S. government broadcasting, Lansing said one idea in particular…Continue Reading BBG CEO opposes plan to restructure US international broadcasting

At the second installment of the panel series Media & Society, Michelle Turner, George Sanchez, Camille Grear Rich, and Mark Lloyd discussed how higher education is failing African Americans and Latinos. Watch the full session here. The series is presented by the Institute for Development and Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA) and the Center on Communication Leadership…Continue Reading Watch: Panel discusses higher ed failing blacks and Latinos

Statement by Adam Clayton Powell III at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, October 8, 2015: Mr. Chairman, Governors, Director Lansing. My name is Adam Clayton Powell III, and I am President of the Public Diplomacy Council and a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California. But this morning I speak as an individual; the…Continue Reading Democracy is not just another ideology; freedom is not just another point of view

“Too often when we talk about immigration we talk with people who already agree with us,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, immigration activist, and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas, who has traveled around the country on a speaking tour in promotion of his films Documented and White People. “I talked to many young white students who seemed…Continue Reading Immigration activist and filmmaker urges USC students to talk to those they don’t agree with