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John Inazu

Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Political Science

Washington University

John Inazu (Twitter: @JohnInazu) is a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale University Press, 2012) and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

 

Blog Posts

Legal and Cultural Approaches to Pluralism and Diversity

May 12, 2016
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Role of Government

The term “pluralism” connotes both a description of our deep differences and a political response to those differences. Let’s start with pluralism as a description of our cultural reality. Our society is incredibly diverse when it comes to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, and sexuality. We have different life experiences, we live in different communities, and we are engaged in different conversations. These differences also pervade our goals and values. We lack agreement about the purpose of our country, the nature of the common good, the meaning of human flourishing. Our differences