The Importance of “Deep Involvement in the World of Action”
Walter Lippmann’s brilliant career demonstrates that people outside of the academy can produce important and impactful scholarship.
Crafting Rules to Sustain Resources
Robert Dahl had a faith that people could govern themselves, if one was able to enable them to create the kind of complex structures that sometimes we call federal systems but sometimes we call [...]
Demography’s Quest for Learning Truth from Facts
Demographers are far off at the inductive end of the social sciences. I like to think that what we do is close to the Chinese injunction “learn truth from facts.”
Understanding the “Complex Good” rather than the “Narrowly Pathological”
It is thrilling to be receiving this fellowship honoring the wonderful work of Margaret Mead, whose pioneering scholarship crossed theoretical, disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries,
Pat Moynihan Ennobled Our Democracy
I was honored that you asked me here tonight, not just because Pat Moynihan was a friend for 53 years, but also the occasion gives me the chance to be with his wife Elizabeth, an intellect of [...]
Pat Moynihan’s Legacy in International Affairs
[Our visit to Sarajevo] had a very profound impact on Senator Moynihan, who went there because of his outrage at the violation of international law that was taking place.
Honoring Intellectual Honesty, Professional Integrity & a Commitment to Justice
Everyone knows the story of President Kennedy describing a White House dinner gathering of 49 American Nobel laureates as “the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that [...]
Alice Rivlin: Sharing a Passion for Getting the Policy Right
I am deeply honored to be the first recipient of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize, and delighted to be here this evening in the company of all these distinguished scholars, to have Elizabeth and [...]
