Bridging the Divide: Trust in Higher Education and Media Through Conservative Lenses
Location
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102
63 High St.
About the Speakers
Jonah Goldberg holds the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute, where he is also a senior fellow. He writes about political and cultural issues and is concurrently the editor in chief of the Dispatch, a media company he cofounded after leaving National Review in 2019. He is also host of the podcast “The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg.” Goldberg is a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and his syndicated column appears in over 100 newspapers nationwide. He is also a CNN commentator and appears regularly on NPR’s Morning Edition. Goldberg is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: “Suicide of the West” (Crown Forum, 2018), “The Tyranny of Clichés” (Sentinel HC, 2012), and “Liberal Fascism” (Doubleday, 2008).
One of FIRE’s longest-serving employees, Robert Shibley began at FIRE straight out of Duke Law School in 2003, with the intention of doing nonprofit work for a couple of years before finding a permanent job. This lasted 19 years, including six as FIRE’s executive director. During his time at FIRE, Robert launched FIRE’s first major litigation initiative, traveled to dozens of campuses to speak about the First Amendment and Title IX issues on campus, and oversaw FIRE’s expansion into off-campus issues before a stint representing students and faculty members in private practice at the firm of Allen Harris PLLC.
Having realized things on campus were even worse than he had believed, Robert returned to FIRE as Special Counsel for Campus Advocacy in order to finish the job he started: restoring free speech and due process to America’s college campuses. Robert is the author of Twisting Title IX, from Encounter Books. His writing has appeared everywhere from The Wall Street Journal to The Washington Post, USA Today, and TIME, and he has appeared on national and international broadcasts including the BBC and NPR, The O’Reilly Factor, CNN Tonight, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and (perhaps most famously) Dr. Phil.
Aaron Sibarium is a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon, where he covers law and higher education. Prior to the Washington Free Beacon, Aaron was an editor at the American Interest. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a degree in ethics, politics, and economics.
