Post-Election Roundup: Bill Kristol & William Galston, with Ramesh Ponnuru

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Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

In this, their sixteenth biennial debate, Bill Kristol and William Galston will be examining the results of the 2022 U.S. mid-term elections, offering the perspectives of two political philosophers who are participants and shrewd observers, both of them experts gifted with what might be called partisan objectivity. This year they will be joined by Ramesh Ponnuru, editor of National Review and Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The discussion will be moderated by Harvey Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, Harvard University. 

This event is organized and sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government and co-sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies. 

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POST-ELECTION ROUNDUP 
 

4:00 – 6:00PM: Speaker presentations 
6:00 – 7:00PM: Buffet supper
7:00 – 8:00PM: Commentary & questions with audience

William Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he serves as a Senior Fellow.  Prior to January 2006 he was the Saul Stern Professor and Acting Dean at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), and executive director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal, co-chaired by former Secretary of Education William Bennett and former Senator Sam Nunn.  A participant in six presidential campaigns, he served from 1993 to 1995 as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy.

Bill Kristol is editor-at-large of The Bulwark. He was a founder of The Weekly Standard, and is a regular guest on leading political commentary shows. Prior to his work at The Weekly Standard, Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, an organization that helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory.  From 1985 to 1993, Kristol served as chief of staff to Education Secretary William Bennett in the Reagan Administration and as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle in the George H. W. Bush administration. Before coming to Washington, Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.

Ramesh Ponnuru is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies politics and public policy with a particular focus on the future of conservatism. Concurrently, he is the editor of National Review, where he has covered national politics and public policy for 25 years; a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion; and a contributor to CNN. A prolific writer, Mr. Ponnuru is the author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life and The Mystery of Japanese Growth.

Harvey Mansfield is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, Harvard University, and Director of the Program on Constitutional Government. He studies and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and has translated three books of Machiavelli’s and (with the aid of his wife) Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.

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