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| Danielle Allen
April 16, 2021, Audio: "Danielle Allen, a scholar of Athenian democracy with two PhDs, has decided she has something to offer to the practice of 21st century democracy in Massachusetts. In December, the Harvard professor launched an exploratory run for governor and has embarked on a series of what she calls “Commonwealth conversations” with residents as she weighs a full-fledged campaign for the 2022 Democratic nomination. While the leap from…
April 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Richard Zeckhauser, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, on his latest book, The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private…
| Danielle Allen
March 29, 2021, Audio; "Harvard economist and former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff joined FOX Business’ “Mornings with Maria” to provide insight into the impacts of the Suez Canal blockage and what spending is coming next under President Biden."
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| Robert D. Putnam
March 22, 2021, Video: "Robert Putnam is the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He is a leading political scientist recognized by the Skytte Prize — the world’s highest accolade for a political scientist. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal. His books have been translated into twenty languages. Alumni of his small “Community in America” seminar at Harvard have gone on to distinguished…
| Cass R. Sunstein
2021, Book: "The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers focus on avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes? When should…
| Danielle Allen
February 19, 2021, Video: "POSSIBLE WORLDS A lecture series presented by the UCLA Division of Humanities and the Berggruen Institute "What Kind of Revolution Was That? Polarization and the Path Forward After January 6" with Danielle Allen Harvard Classicist and Political Theorist Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist…
| Daniel Ziblatt
February 2, 2021, Paper: "Why do voters for the radical right tend to cluster in specific geographic locations? Many scholars have emphasized the economic roots of radical right support. Other scholarship highlights the role of the urban-rural divide, contending that the radical right finds support in low population density locations due to distinctive social values and strong place-based social identities found in rural areas. To date, however…
January 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Bruce Schneier, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, on technology security, social media, and regulation. |…
November 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard Kennedy School, on the long-term geopolitical impact of COVID-19, morality and the U.S. Presidency, and the role of soft power in U.S. foreign policy. |…
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November 12, 2020, Video: "Harvard Kennedy School faculty discuss the challenges faced by the incoming U.S. presidential administration, and possible policy prescriptions for dealing with them." Watch Via HKS on Youtube