Archive: Oct 2020

October 28, 2020 To the Harvard Kennedy School Community, Elections offer choices, and in doing so they can heighten tensions between people who have different understandings of how the world is and different views of how the world should be. The…

October 20, 2020 A message from Dean Douglas Elmendorf Dear Students, Faculty, Staff, and Fellows, I hope you are all well and safe, despite the many challenges in the world. The pandemic and other public problems have turned many people’s worlds…

October 9, 2020 We live in a time of great peril and great promise in the public sphere. The peril is clear. We face an array of public challenges: the challenge of the pandemic; the challenge of managing international conflicts in peaceful ways;…