Event Details - Dialogues Across Differences

Periclean Honors Forum “Dialogues Across Differences”
Wednesday, March 25
5 p.m. 
Davis Auditorium

Atlantic magazine staff writer and acclaimed author Thomas Chatterton Williams will discuss "Free Thought in a Fractured Age: Why Open Debate Still Matters" as part of the Honors Forum’s annual “Dialogues Across Differences” speaker series. A book signing with Williams, hosted by the Skidmore Shop, will follow. Made possible through the generous support of Emily Pavlovich Chiles Startz '74. 

Thomas Chatterton Williams is a cultural critic, best-selling author, and staff writer at The Atlantic magazine. He is the author of Summer of Our Discontent (2025); Self-Portrait in Black and White (2019), a TIME magazine “Must Read” book; and Losing My Cool (2010). His writing on race, identity, free thought, and contemporary American culture has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, the London Review of Books, and Le Monde, and has been collected in The Best American Essays. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, Williams is currently a visiting professor of the humanities and senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.

The event is free and open to all.