I’ve duked it out before (in an exchange at Commentary on international law) with Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Dean at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She is, though, a fair-minded liberal in the great but dying academic tradition of allowing all thoughtful voices — including, yes, conservative voices — to be heard on campus. So it is that the Wilson School (along with Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions) is sponsoring an event called “How Abortion Harms Women.” It is a lecture, to be given April 4, by Charmaine Yoest, the Family Research Council’s vice president for communications.

As proud Princetonian TigerHawk observes in calling the forum to our attention:

Dean Slaughter is no conservative — she blogs at TPM Cafe — but she has on numerous occasions been willing to buck the orthodox left by inviting and graciously introducing speakers to the right of, well, the orthodox left. By my reckoning, there are far too few avowedly left-of-center academic officials who do as much as Dean Slaughter to recruit and promote speakers who are substantially more conservative than they are. Good job.

Amen.