Viewpoint Diversity - by John Tomasi & Bernard Schweizer (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Viewpoint diversity is suddenly on everyone's lips -- yet few agree on what it really means. Is it about political balance? Free speech? Academic inclusion? Or something far more vital -- the courage to engage across difference?

In Viewpoint Diversity: What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Get It, leading heterodox thinkers tackle one of the most urgent questions of our time: how to keep open inquiry and constructive disagreement alive amid rising conformity on both left and right. Spanning essays on higher education, politics, culture, and the arts, this bold collection offers both sharp diagnosis and practical solutions for cultivating genuine pluralism.

Timely, provocative, and refreshingly constructive, Viewpoint Diversity makes the case for a richer, freer, and more resilient public culture -- one that thrives not in spite of disagreement, but because of it.

About the Author

JOHN TOMASI is the inaugural president of Heterodox Academy. An Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University and the Director of the Political Theory Project at Brown University, he has written Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens Society and the Boundaries of Political Theory (Princeton University Press, 2001), as well as published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and general interest venues.

BERNARD SCHWEIZER is a literary scholar with 12 books (monographs and editions) as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles to his name. Schweizer, who grew up in Switzerland, earned a Ph.D. in British Literature from Duke University, and then joined the English faculty of Long Island University, Brooklyn. After retiring as an emeritus professor in 2019, his literary passion led him to found Heresy Press as a haven for ambitious, outspoken fiction.