Current Spring 2016 Institute of Politics (IOP) Fellow, Anurima Bhargava served as the Chief of the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice in 2010, addressing issues of school segregation, sexual assault, and undocumented students. She has also worked on the White House Task Force to Prevent Campus Sexual … Read more
Alexander Burns is a political reporter for The New York Times, covering both New York politics and the 2016 presidential election. Prior to joining the Times, he was a reporter and editor for Politico, where he covered congressional and Senate elections and the 2012 presidential race. A 2008 graduate of Harvard College, Burns was editor-in-chief … Read more
Andrew Effron, Director of the Military Justice Review Group, was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in 1996 and served as Chief Judge from 2006 to 2011. Prior to joining the Court, he held positions in both the legislative and executive branches of the government, including service as the … Read more
Senator Alan Simpson served as a United States Senator from Wyoming from 1979 to 1997. In 2010, Simpson was appointed by President Barack Obama to co-chair the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democrat co-chair Erskine Bowles. Simpson was the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University from 1998 to 2000. Harvard Political … Read more
The Image of the Common Enemy In recent years, the question of whether the European Union as a fundamental idea can succeed has become louder and louder. First the Euro crisis, and now the refugee crisis have divided the European Union, disrupting the image of a community of unified, equal member states. But then … Read more
Political theory need not be boring. Neither, according to Jeremy Waldron, is it always as “political” as it ought to be. In a highly readable and unusually entertaining collection of essays entitled Political Political Theory: Essays on Institutions, published by Harvard University Press in 2016, Waldron demonstrates that political theory can and should be far … Read more