Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. From 2013 to 2014, he served on the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. From 2009 to 2012, he was administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sunstein was on the faculty at University of Chicago Law School from 1981 to 2008 and an attorney-advisor in the US Justice Department Office of the Legal Counsel prior to that. He has authored hundreds of articles and many books, including Republic.com, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, and his two latest, The World According to Star Wars and The Ethics of Influence.
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How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White...
Common, an Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Grammy award-winner, will open the Afternoon of Conversation with Arthur Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute....
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In a well-functioning democracy, people do not live in echo chambers or filter bubbles; rather, citizens are exposed to myriad ideas and perspectives even if not their own. Co...
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Those who study human behavior have learned that simply by encouraging—or “nudging”—individuals toward the right decisions for themselves, dramatic improvements can be made. C...