Speakers Debate Censorship, Education, and “American Values” at Chicago Thinker Summit

Asian American values are American values - The Voice of San Francisco

I didn’t grow up thinking of myself as political. Like a lot of Asian Americans, I grew up just trying to survive. I grew up in a country that never let me forget I didn’t quite belong.  I was born in Winnipeg to Chinese and Burmese immigrant parents who crossed continents for a shot at something better. We moved to the Bay Area in the early ’90s, settling in Fremont before it became the Fremont people talk about today. It wasn’t polished or pro…

Speakers Debate Censorship, Education, and “American Values” at Chicago Thinker Summit

The Chicago Thinker, UChicago’s conservative student publication, held its inaugural American Identity Summit at the David Rubenstein Forum on May 10, hosting speakers across four panels and two keynote addresses to discuss the future of the United States and “American values.” Christopher Phillips, the editor-in-chief of the Thinker, opened the event by praising UChicago for its support for free speech: “We have the foundations here both instit…