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….

is a senior fellow at New America and the author of the forthcoming book The Business of America is Lobbying….

is the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. In 2010 and 2011 she was the presidentially appointed Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Her article,…

is senior editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society and a Future Tense Fellow at New America….

is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University….

is the author of One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare and Tell Me How This Ends: David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq….