Professor Robert George writes an opinion piece for the Washington Post with Cornel West titled "To save themselves, universities must cultivate civic friendship: Doing so is crucial to the survival of our shared societal order."

"A university culture of civic friendship is one in which faculty and students recognize, and act consistently with the recognition, that reasonable people of goodwill can respectfully disagree about controversial — indeed, even the most important, life-defining, and identity-forming — questions."