Mickey Edwards is vice president and director of the Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership at the Aspen Institute. He was a Republican member of Congress from Oklahoma from 1977 to 1992, serving as a member of the House Republican leadership and as a member of the Appropriations and Budget Committees. After leaving Congress, he taught for eleven years at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and for five years as a lecturer at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.