Cass Sunstein Defning Democracy for the Regulatory State Seeking 37 Great Leaders
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Visit the website to be inspired by the possibilities: advancedleadership.harvard.edu or email the fellowship director: [email protected] 140110_AdvancedLeadership_Harvard.indd 1 11/14/14 9:43 AM JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015 VOLUME 117, NUMBER 3 FEATURES 43 The Legal Olympian | by Lincoln Caplan Cass Sunstein interprets American constitutionalism in light of the rise of the modern regulatory state 50 Forum: Keeping Women Safe | by Rohini Pande An economist explores the causes of violence against South Asian p. 17 women—and real solutions to the problem 54 Vita: Edward Everett Hale | by Jefrey Mifin Brief life of a science-minded writer and reformer: 1822-1909 56 The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing | by Craig Lambert What turmoil in scholarly communication portends for libraries, mono- graphs, and the future of tenure JOHN H A R V A R D ’ S J O U R N A L 17 The other art-gallery opening, budget balance and benefits battles, a philosopher overseeing open access, tropical-disease research way back when, undergraduate architecture studies, sustainability, Medical School campaign and computer-science gains, writers’ roster, honoring authors and artists, taking attendance clandestinely, deans’ transitions, the Undergradu- ate’s life in theater, pigskin perfection, high hopes for basketball, an elusive wrestler, and an updated almanac of Harvard athletics p. 56 DEPARTMENTS 2 Cambridge 02138 | Letters from our readers—and observations on endowment performance 3 The View from Mass Hall 11 Right Now | Choosing confidants, probing conceptual thinking, company size and innovation 2 16A Harvard | A calendar of seasonal events, circuses illustrated, Moroccan cuisine, touring a nineteenth-century townhouse, Hindu dance, and a winter farmers’ market 61 Montage | Making fine furniture, capitalism reconsidered, a chamber orchestra sans conductor, obsessed with Haiti, peering into black holes, Shakespeare’s sonnets reinterpreted, and more 71 Alumni | A summa at NASCAR speed, the Boston Club renewed, and the Crimson cohort in Congress MAN; STU ROSNER; PETE RYAN PETE ROSNER; STU MAN; F 76 The College Pump | Serenaded by Baez and Dylan: memories of the Sixties—and since p. 14 84 Treasure | For the birds—and their museum admirers FROM TOP: DEANKAU TOP: FROM 77 Crimson Classifieds On the cover: Photograph by Jim Harrison www.harvardmagazine.com Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 LETTERS EDITOR: John S. Rosenberg SENIOR EDITOR: Jean Martin Cambridge 02138 MANAGING EDITOR: Jonathan S. Shaw ART DIRECTOR: Jennifer Carling Silhouettes, missing football fans, the Sixties ASSISTANT EDITOR-ONLINE: Laura Levis ASSISTANT EDITOR: Nell Porter Brown STAFF WRITERS: Stephanie Garlock, ETHICS EDUCATION benefits. You delivered a Sophia Nguyen As a frequent speaker thoughtful, informed, excit- BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY on business ethics, I was ing overview updating read- UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS eager to read “Making Or- ers on debates and devel- Olivia Munk, Melanie Wang ganizations Moral,” along opments in history and its with its subtitle “Ethics new collaborators. We seem Elevated” (November-De- to be moving into a trans- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS cember 2014, page 11). But disciplinary realm of inqui- John T. Bethell, John de Cuevas, Dick I was quickly disappointed ry, and that’s a good thing. Friedman, Adam Goodheart, as I read Professor Max Ba- I plan to use your essay in Elizabeth Gudrais, Jim Harrison, zerman’s comment that “My seminars and distribute it Courtney Humphries, Christopher S. job is not about what ethics broadly among colleagues. Johnson, Adam Kirsch, Colleen Lannon, you follow, but how to bring Hope you don’t mind. Christopher Reed, Stu Rosner, Deborah you up to your own ethical standards.” Donald Warren Smullyan, Mark Steele Such subjective morality is what got Jef- Professor Emeritus, Education History and frey Skilling [former CEO of Enron] and Policy, and University Dean Emeritus, HARVARD MAGAZINE INC. other Harvard Business School (HBS) al- School of Education, Indiana University PRESIDENT: Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, ums in a lot of trouble. It’s time HBS said Bloomington Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98. DIRECTORS: Suzanne there is right and wrong, that ethics pur- Blier, Peter K. Bol, Jonathan L.S. Byrnes, sues what is right, and that those who be- Your bang-up article understandably fo- D.B.A. ’80, Thomas F. Kelly, Ph.D. ’73, have unethically should be punished. We cuses on the Harvard historians doing ex- Lars Peter Knoth Madsen, Margaret H. can’t aford the nation’s flagship business citing work in expanding the field of play Marshall, Ed.M. ’69, John P. Reardon Jr. school to continue to wander through a beyond the nation-state and the written ’60, Bryan E. Simmons ’83 sea of moral relativism. record. But it would have been graceful to William Bowman, M.B.A. ’78 acknowledge some of the historians who Arlington, Mass. have pioneered this approach, even if they BOARD OF INCORPORATORS This magazine, at first called the Harvard Bulletin, was were stationed elsewhere. I am thinking of founded in 1898. Its Board of Incorporators was char- Most americans are not confused about such historians as William H. McNeill (The tered in 1924 and remains active in the magazine’s the concepts of honesty and dishonesty. We Rise of the West, and with his son John R. Mc- governance. The membership is as follows: Stephen J. Bailey, AMP ’94; Jefrey S. Behrens ’89, William I. expect honesty from our judiciary, news Neill, The Human Web), David Christian (Maps Bennett ’62, M.D. ’69; John T. Bethell ’54; Peter K. Bol; media, and police forces. We have no such of Time; “Big History”), Philip Curtin (The World Fox Butterfield ’61, A.M. ’64; Sewell Chan ’98; Jona- than S. Cohn ’91; Philip M. Cronin ’53, J.D. ’56; John confidence in businessmen, advertisers, and and the West), André G. Frank, and others. de Cuevas ’52; James F. Dwinell III ’62; Anne Fadiman politicians. Why wouldn’t it be a good idea Keith Roberts ’65, LL.B. ’68 ’74; Benjamin M. Friedman ’66, Ph.D. ’71; Robert H. Giles, NF ’66; Richard H. Gilman, M.B.A. ’83; Owen to move people with Harvard in their résu- Author of The Origins of Business, Gingerich, Ph.D. ’62; Adam K. Goodheart ’92; Phil- més to the side of unquestioned honesty? Money, and Markets ip C. Haughey ’57; Brian R. Hecht ’92; Sarah Blafer Hrdy ’68, Ph.D. ’75; Ellen Hume ’68; Alex S. Jones, NF James G. King ’52 Bethesda, Md. ’82; Bill Kovach, NF ’89; Florence Ladd, BI ’72; Jen- Juneau nifer 8 Lee ’99; Randolph C. Lindel ’66; Ann Marie …AND SHADOW ART Lipinski, NF ’90; Scott Malkin ’80, J.D.-M.B.A. ’83; Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M. ’69, Ed ’77, L ’78; Lisa L. HISTORY REBOOTED… In an issue that spotlights the emergence Martin, Ph.D. ’90; David McClintick ’62; Winthrop Thank you for “The New Histories” (No- of global approaches to history (“The New L. McCormack ’67; M. Lee Pelton, Ph.D. ’84; John P. Reardon Jr. ’60; Christopher Reed; Harriet Ritvo ’68, vember-December 2014, page 52). It demon- Histories”), it is sad to find this worldly Ph.D. ’75; Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98; strates the expanded scope and potential wisdom missing entirely from “Shadow Barbara Rudolph ’77; Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. ’78; Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75; Peter A. Spiers ’76; Scott impact of Harvard Magazine. A larger audi- Art” (Treasure, page 104). The craft of paper H. Stossel ’91; Sherry Turkle ’69, Ph.D. ’76; Robert H. ence than alumni, important as we may be, cutting (Jianzhi) originated in China. The Weiss ’54; Jan Ziolkowski. 2 January - February 2015 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 THE VIEW FROM MASS HALL On Public Service hen I became president of Harvard I had the priv- ilege of getting to know Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. We would meet for breakfast at Park- man House on Beacon Hill or at Elmwood here Win Cambridge, and he would ofer guidance drawn from his many years spent serving the public. When he wrote me a note of thanks after Harvard awarded him an honorary degree and signed it “Your friend, Dr. Menino,” I smiled at his evident pleasure in his new title—and filled with pride that he called me his friend. He was a great leader and a great teacher, and I will forever be one of his grateful students. In November, I attended Mayor Menino’s funeral and listened as his colleagues, friends, and family described what he meant to them and to the countless people whose lives he touched. Mitchell Weiss ’99, M.B.A. ’04, who served as the Mayor’s Chief of Staf, delivered a moving eulogy, describing the many ways in which people came to love a man who dedicated his career and much of his life to making the lives of others better. “They loved you,” he recalled, “when you said things like ‘I am Mayor of all the people.