Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Manosphere: Part 2
Polis: Center for Politics is committed to increasing our understanding of politics locally, nationally, and globally.
We aim to promote powerful politics research, to foster rich political discourse, and to help a new generation of leaders find on-ramps to public service.
Projects & Programs
The Civil Discourse Project
The Civil Discourse Project (CDP) sponsors courses, events, and scholarship that promote civil discourse through modeling or teaching the capacities and virtues necessary to engage in healthy exchange across difference. At CDP, we aim to create, both inside and outside the classroom, intellectually diverse communities of friends who will both support and challenge each other in a collective pursuit of truth and knowledge—enabling all to become better thinkers, people, community members, citizens, and leaders. We maintain that such community requires freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression for faculty and students alike.
Polis Distinguished Fellows
The Polis Distinguished Fellows Program honors extraordinary leadership in politics and public service. Fellows are prominent figures who bring expertise and experience from their roles as practitioners in politics and governance, campaigns, activism, journalism, media, etc.
The AY25-26 Polis Distinguished Fellows are John Hillen, former US Assistant Secretary of State; Michael S. Regan, 16th Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); and Danny Werfel, former Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The Polis Student Committee
The Polis Student Committee (PSC) is a community of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at Duke University who share an interest in politics, democracy, and public service. The PSC aims to promote greater understanding of—and engagement with—politics at the local, state, national, and global levels. PSC members are official members of the Polis community who participate in the center’s events and activities, gain access to special perks and unique opportunities, and play a valuable role in helping to shape Polis’s programs.
Project Citizen
Polis: Center for Politics serves as the Campus Partner for Project Citizen, an Experiential Orientation program designed to give students the skills to be informed, active, and compassionate citizens within Duke campus and our local, national, and global communities.
Duke Advisor Earns Honors from Council on Foreign Relations, United Nations Academic Leadership Suite
September 3, 2026
Mark Dalhouse, senior quad advisor at Duke’s Academic Advising Center, has received two distinct honors from national and international organizations. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) appointed him as a 2026–27 Education Ambassador, where he will join a national network of educators helping students better understand global affairs and recognize their role in shaping the world around them. In addition, Dalhouse was selected to join the October 2026 cohort of the United Nations Academic.
Congress must get its head out of the sand and finally fix the budget
September 17, 2026
Americans recently learned that our total national debt has surpassed $40 trillion. Publicly held debt (at more than $32 trillion) is now eclipsing the nation’s annual gross domestic product, and annual interest payments top $1 trillion. On our present trajectory, the public debt will exceed 120 percent of GDP within a decade, with interest claiming more than $2 trillion of the annual budget.
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