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He said that an unwillingness to listen to political opponents has led to gridlock in Washington.

“The two parties decide those questions not by engaging with one another but by trying to shout each other down and by trying to repress and undermine the research that counters their ideology,” he said. “The more our universities emulate that model the worse off we will be as a society.”

Attendees expressed surprise at the tone of his speech.