Amherst Political Union

Mission statement

Notable Recent Speakers Include

• 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

  Other historic collegiate debating organizations

• 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 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