Career
Sommers earned her B.A. at New York University in 1971 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Brandeis University in 1979.
A former philosophy professor in Ethics at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. She is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. She has spoken and participated in debates at over one hundred college campuses and served on the national advisory board of the Independent Women's Forum.
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