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A declaration against the war on drugs

July 3, 2016

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, Professor of Government. "The history of the present War on Drugs is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having as a direct consequence the severing of the connection between African Americans and the rest of the American polity," writes Allen.



A conversation: Matthew Desmond and Alex Kotlowitz

May 15, 2016

Chicago Humanities Festival | Professor Matthew Desmond, a 2015 MacArthur Fellow and author of Evicted, joins author and journalist Alex Kotlowitz in conversation. Kotlowitz is the author of There Are No Children Here. The conversation was part of Our Cities, a day-long event presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival in collaboration with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in honor of the 35th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program. View video [21 minutes].



A Conversation with Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy

November 28, 2016

The JFK Jr Forum  | Vivek H. Murthy, United States Surgeon General, joined Amitabh Chandra, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, at the JFK Jr. Forum for a conversation on America's healthcare issues relating to opioid addiction, gun violence, and changes to healthcare laws under the new administration. Co-sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.
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2015 Nov 11

A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics: 79 JFK Street

Note: Ticket lottery is now closed, but this event will be webcast. 
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, a 2015 MacArthur Fellow, and national correspondent at The Atlantic.

A conversation with Bruce Western, Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center and Professor of Sociology and the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy, Harvard University; Kathryn Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University; and William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.

A JFK Jr. Forum event by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
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A Conversation with Robert D. Putnam [Video]

March 14, 2016

Conversations with Bill Kristol | Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, discusses declining levels of civic participation in America and his interpretation of the reasons for it. He also recalls how political developments awakened his interest in political science, and explains how social science might help us address public policy problems. [Video: 70 minutes]



A Conversation with Jeb Bush [video]

September 29, 2016

Harvard IOP | A conversation with Jeb Bush, moderated by Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, and Roland Fryer, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, in the JFK Jr. Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School.



A conversation on immigration and policy

March 30, 2016

Bloggingheads.tv | Economist Glenn Loury (Brown University) talks immigration with George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. [video: 39 minutes]



A conservative scholar questions whether the US really has an inequality problem

July 27, 2018

Quartz | Interview with Scott Winship PhD 2009, now Executive Director of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee.



A Conservative Opportunity Agenda

June 2, 2015

Forbes | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09)



A computer program used for bail and sentencing decisions was labeled biased against blacks. It’s actually not that clear.

October 17, 2016

Washington Post | References new paper by Sendhil Mullinathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, and collaborators Jon Klein and Manish Raghavan, of Cornell University,  which explores inherent tradeoffs in the fair determination of risk scores. "These results," Mullainathan and his co-authors conclude, "suggest some of the ways in which key notions of fairness [in algorithmic classification] are incompatible with each other, and hence provide a framework for thinking about the trade-offs between them."
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