18. Church, State, and Higher Education — Vincent Phillip Muñoz
What does it mean to have a right—and who decides its limits?
In this episode of Tocqueville Talks, Brent Nelsen and Beth L’Arrivée sit down with Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Tocqueville Chair in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, for a wide-ranging conversation on religious liberty, natural rights, and the American constitutional tradition.
Drawing on the principles of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and the political thought of the American founding, Muñoz challenges modern assumptions about rights as absolute “trumps.” Instead, he explores an earlier…
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