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Media Highlights TV • October 19, 2026 

# Erec Smith is featured in the event, “The Rhetorical Significance of Mattering: Toward Reviving Civil Discourse,” hosted by the *NDSU Challey Institute*

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##### [Erec Smith](/people/erec-smith)

Research Fellow, Cato Institute, and Cofounder, Free Black Thought

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