Robert George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. That’s one of the most prestigious academic appointments in the nation, a chair once held by Woodrow Wilson. But George disdains ivory tower elitism. He gets his hands dirty in the rough-and-tumble world of politics and public debate. He founded the American Principles Project, a grassroots movement designed to take conservative and Christian ideas and make them a part of the ongoing political conversation. He’s a member and current chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). On June 11, George received the 2015 William Wilberforce award from the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. That’s where we had this conversation.

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