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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please name the last conservative Comnencement Speaker at an Ivy, Oberlin, Wesleyan, Swartmore, Vassar etc.

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Well for the ivies, any top college with a law school has FedSoc speakers infesting the place 24/7. 
Wesleyan just had this event: A Conversation with Cornel West and Robert P. George Friday, March 27, 2026; Robert P George is a professor at Princeton and "was an influential opponent of Roe v. Wade and same-sex marriage, and received a Presidential medal from George W. Bush." 
Swarthmore has constitution day and they chose Stephanos Bibas as a speaker, who was appointed by Donald Trump as a Judge in the Court of Appeals, (https://www.swarthmore.edu/political-science/constitution-day-lecture) . Tim Hall sadly passed away, but he was a professor at Vassar. Wesleyan has invested in an affirmative action program for conservative faculty.

Here's the thing though: there's very few departments where this explicitly is a "thing"-political science, Econ, and maybe sociology/anthropology are where you're going to see titles of "Conservative" and "liberal." Many philosophy faculty are pretty damned "conservative" in how they approach argumentation and the tradition, but that doesn't really change the value of reasoning above all. I don't think it's that productive to have trump cabinet members of the Dinesh D'Souza's of the world walking around college campuses, as people rage on about for whatever reason. Much of political science is about data analysis over pet political theories. Over ideologizing academic subjects is the bigger issue.[/quote]

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