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Wesson Lecture Discussion
Joshua Cohen is co-editor of Boston Review, member of the faculty of Apple University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow in law, philosophy, and political science at University of California, Berkeley.
Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of The Imperative of Integration.
David Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.
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