Professor explaining why when i was in college, what i wanted to major in like most kids do and i was torn between going into science and going into the humanities. I found those questions more interesting, engaging, and urgent. My First Political science course, we read the great political philosophers from plato on up. They were all asking the question, what is justice, what is good government, how can you organize government and society to make life better for people, to make justice . So before i decided to become a Political Science major, i already have lack of confidence, and social scientists, and i got good grades in science and math courses. I took a Political Science course and didnt remember the paper, you never remember is that stuff. You remember the nasty comments. This is a credible effort but never be a political scientist. I remember myself, a similar dilemma, slightly different reaction, one of the things i realized in middle school, talking about manifest destiny, i
Id like to start this interview by talking about you. I was talking a little more about you but i like the audience to start off honestly in your introduction. You got a note from a professor i believe saying youd never be apolitical scientist, can you talk about that . I put that in the book is i wanted to major in college and it was really torn between going into science and going into the humanities and social science and i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent for me. And in my Political Science course we read all these great political philosophers on up and they were all asking the question what is justice, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society to make life better for people and particularly to make justice. So i ended up before i decided to become a Political Science major, i already had kind of a lack of confidence in my skills as a humanist for a social scientist be
The happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. I want to give you a version of what ive been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. Will present this room as a las vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us led headed thinkers turned into gold tone scholars and teachers picture a process of something that works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class mates once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little because money came to yale to study with harlem are a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that racked up group of students in american studies. clapping not a cold or exactly but we did become friends, puzzling over readings, yawning over brilliant, but sometim
[inaudible conversations] good morning. I call this hearing to order. In just the past six months, the covid19 pandemic has completely upended our everyday way of life. One of the most sudden and stark transitions to the way all of us work. Millions of americans have been unable to go to the office each day, as a result, weve had to find a way to get our jobs done and keep our economy going. The financial hit to small and larger businesses has been devastating during this crisis. Reducing expenses is increasingly important for individuals and businesses, as the country struggles with the unexpected costs of the coronavirus pandemic. Such cost savings are likely to persist after the pandemic. Nearly one in five private sector chief Financial Officers plans to keep at least 20 of their work force working remostly after the covid19 pandemic ends in order to cut costs. I believe the federal government should also be looking for opportunities to save taxpayer money wherever and whenever pos
Lessons learned from remote market learning during the coronavirus. Private is in its representatives were utilizing remote work and how the federal government could reduce their office workspace. [inaudible conversations] good morning. I call this hearing to order. In just the past six months, the covid19 pandemic has our everyday way of life. One of the most sudden and stark transitions to the way all of us work. Millions of americans have been unable to go to the office each day, as a result, weve had to find a way to get our jobs done and keep our economy going. The financial hit to small and larger businesses has been devastating during this crisis. Reducing expenses is increasingly important for individuals and businesses, as the country struggles with the unexpected costs of the coronavirus pandemic. Such cost savings are likely to persist after the pandemic. Nearly one in five private sector chief Financial Officers plans to keep at least 20 of their work force working remostly