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Is America a failed experiment?

Monday, November 2
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Rhodes + Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall
232 Feeney Way · Map ↗
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John McWhorter gives a lecture on whether America has been a failed experiment, as part of the College of Arts & Science's America250 events. He argues that higher education should embrace a more positive and constructive view of the American experiment.

On Monday, November 2, McWhorter will give a lecture, "Is America a failed experimentt?" as part of the College of Arts & Science's America250 events.

"Many voices teach us as a higher wisdom that America has been an ongoing mistake, founded in barbarity and ever maintaining pitiless injustice and inequality, of a kind and extent beyond the possibility of repair. I suggest that this perspective, while often considered a form of enlightenment, is based on an always tempting retreat from addressing complexity and degree, and that higher education should embrace a more positive and constructive…

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