John is probably a click or two more conservative than me, and Nancy maybe a click or two more liberal, but we all view the racism and conspiracy theories of the current Republican Party as anathema. Louis political philosopher and law professor John Inazu, and Nancy Cantor, the president of Rutgers University at Newark and an alumna of Sarah Lawrence. My interlocutors were the Washington University in St. I had been invited to campus by President Cristle Collins Judd as part of a series called “Differences in Dialogue.” The plan was to explore the challenges and opportunities of living in a diverse democracy, when diversity means both the differences you like and the differences you don’t like. A group called the Diaspora Coalition at Sarah Lawrence College, an elite liberal-arts school about an hour’s drive north of Manhattan, had put out a list of demands online and announced that they were going to occupy a campus building. I heard about the protest a day before arriving on campus.
