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"Salam argued that there is a need for true kinship between all Americans. If there is a perception that some group, in this case immigrants, is not fully invested in America’s collective social bargain, the social fabric will begin to deteriorate as people cling to their own tribal groups and subcultures rather than to a broader sense of Americanism."

"Now in its fifth year, the program aims 'to promote intellectual diversity on the CU-Boulder campus… [seeking] highly visible scholars who are deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both.'"

Receiving the language grant from the CWCTP was critical for my gaining a grasp of French. Given that the focus of my dissertation in philosophy is the early modern period, being able to read French is essential. It will enable me to read the work of Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Rousseau,...

"For seven days at the end of July, I spent an entire week in a mansion in West Virginia with thirty other people. For these seven days, only Latin was spoken within these walls. This weeklong intensive, immersive experience reanimated the life of a language whose favorite epithet is “dead.”...

"...throughout history many people have interpreted the story of creation as humans having full dominion over the earth, but it is better read as humans having stewardship over the earth and a responsibility to care for its well-being."

The month of October finds the Center for Western Civilization, Thought & Policy busier than ever, with five public events, featuring scholars as diverse as the first female Bishop of the Episcopalian Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori Ph.D., to the Executive Editor of the National Review, Reihan Salam. Come join us in our pursuit of modeling respectful, intelligent discourse on the issues that matter most.

From the beginning of May until the end of June, I had the opportunity to go to a French language school in the northeast part of Paris. The institute I attended is called Campus Langues. The program there was primarily focused on exposure to the French language in a semiformal...

Reihan Salam is executive editor and a National Review Institute Policy Fellow. He is a contributing editor of National Affairs, a member of the board of New America, and an advisor to the Energy Innovation Reform Project and the Niskanen Institute. Previously, Salam was an associate editor at The Atlantic, a producer for NBC News, a junior editor and editorial researcher at the New York Times, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. With Ross Douthat, Salam is the co-author of Grand New Party: How Conservatives Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (Doubleday, 2008). Reihan will be speaking on the "Two Kinds of Patriotism", October 26, at 5:15 pm in Hale 270 (RSVPs recommended).

A quotation of George Norlin––the professor of Greek and former university president, for whom the library was named––is inscribed on the lintel of Norlin Library: ENTER HERE THE TIMELESS FELLOWSHIP OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. I have passed under these words countless times in a rush to get a coffee or check out a book. Those times that I noticed it, I often thought to myself how the epigraph felt cliché. But, over the summer, I found my eyes drawn again and again to those words.

Thanks to a language-study grant from the Center for Western Civilization, I returned to Chambéry, France for a second summer in a row to continue learning French at the Institut Savoisien d’Etudes Françaises pour Etrangers.