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The liberal arts play a crucial role in nurturing and safeguarding democracy by advancing diverse viewpoints and cultural experiences, working to promote tolerance and empathy, and counteracting the polarization and animosity threatening democratic institutions.

Such an undertaking involves cultivating the capacity for public reason and the ability to engage in rational deliberation about political matters using arguments and principles that can be understood and potentially accepted by all citizens. These concepts are central to democratic theory, and as such, discussion of the liberal arts’ role is especially relevant in the current intellectual and cultural climate.

Toward that initiative, Rollins College and The Institute for Citizens and Scholars will host a forum for higher education participants and intellectual leaders in this vital and timely conversation.