Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.
Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government; Harvard University
Nancy L. Rosenblum is the Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita. A Lot of People are Saying: the new Conspirqacism and the Assault on Democracy with Russell Muirhead was published by Princeton University Press in 2019. Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America was published by Princeton University Press in 2016. On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship received the Walter Channing Cabot Fellow Award from Harvard in 2010 for scholarly eminence. She is also the author, among other books, of Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (1998), which was awarded the APSA David Easton Prize in 2000. She is editor of Thoreau: Political Writings, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Prof. Rosenblum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. She is guest editor of a volume of Daedalus: “Witnessing Climate Change” due out in October, 2020.