Teach Conservatism as Pluralism

Colleagues from a liberal arts college and a center‑right think tank ran a workshop that helps faculty design courses on the conservative intellectual tradition, aiming to reintroduce Buckley‑style thinkers and classical conservative texts into undergraduate curricula without partisan coercion. The organizers argue such courses give students tools to critique both left‑wing enthusiasms and superficial online right‑wing movements. — Framing the teaching of conservative thought as a curricular repair has broad implications for academic hiring, syllabus content, campus polarization, and how universities cultivate civic reasoning.