No. 100 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Professor, Vanderbilt; author and minister
Michael Eric Dyson is a professor at Vanderbilt, a Baptist minister and the author of more than twenty books.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Michael Eric Dyson's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Defended political correctness as progress at the Munk Debates against Jordan Peterson and Stephen Fry.
Dyson teaches in Vanderbilt's College of Arts and Science and its Divinity School.
His books cover race, religion and politics, with biographies of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Marvin Gaye.
On the record
2018
May 18, 2018
Formal debateLost the audience vote
Against Jordan Peterson and Stephen Fry · Munk Debates, Toronto
Dyson and Michelle Goldberg argued for the motion. Dyson's remark calling Peterson a mean white man became the night's most quoted exchange.
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