is a writer, translator, and senior affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard….

served as chief of staff to Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Al Gore, and is currently general counsel with a venture capital firm in Washington, D.C. The views expressed here are solely his personal views. Disclosure note: Mr. Klain's employer,…

is professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley. His research and teaching range across public management, environmental policy, and arts policy….

is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and previously was the U.S. Ambassador to Algeria, deputy ambassador to Iraq, and, from 2010 to February 2014, ambassador to Syria….

is the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City….

is president of Bard College, music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, and editor of The Musical Quarterly. This essay is adapted from a talk he gave at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College in fall 2014….

is the author of The Next Economic Disaster, managing partner at Gabriel Investments, and chair of The Governor's Woods Foundation. He was formerly CEO of Energy Plus, Juniper Financial, and First USA Bank….

is the John H. Lindsey '44 Chair and head of the International Affairs Department at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Doha Center….

holds a doctorate in American history. Her work focuses on postwar liberalism and the political discourse of race and poverty during the Great Society, and she is also a regular contributor to the blog of the Society for U.S. Intellectual…

is senior counsel to the Constitutional Accountability Center, a public-interest law firm, think tank, and action center….