Amherst Political Union

The Amherst Political Union prides itself on its nonpartisan structure and serves as an environment of engagement for individuals with varied political views. Since its founding, the Political Union has sought to fight the political apathy that plagues many other colleges by engaging members of the Amherst College campus in productive conversations relating to salient and pressing political issues.

• Prime Minister of Pakistan Shaukat Aziz
• Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele
• Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig
• Senator George Mitchell
• Journalist Mona Eltahawy
• Former Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader
• Former CIA Director John Deutch
• Congressman Jamie Raskin
• Congressman Tom Davis
• Libertarian Doug Bandow

• The Berkeley Forum of University of California, Berkeley
• The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania
• The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
• The American Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton University
• The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society of the University of Virginia
• The Union-Philanthropic (Literary) Society of Hampden-Sydney College
• The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• The Demosthenian Literary Society of The University of Georgia in Athens
• The Euphradian Society of University of South Carolina
• The Yale Political Union of Yale University
• The Philodemic Society of Georgetown University

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