Daniel W. Drezner

Talk about talking across generations….

I attended a panel today entitled, “Reconstituting Intellectual Power in the Academy: A Conversation Across Generations,” in which one of the elder members of the panel said (roughly) the following: You have to understand, when I was in school we all thought the U.S. government was corrupt and inefficient. We were all influenced by the ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry.

I attended a panel today entitled, "Reconstituting Intellectual Power in the Academy: A Conversation Across Generations," in which one of the elder members of the panel said (roughly) the following: You have to understand, when I was in school we all thought the U.S. government was corrupt and inefficient. We were all influenced by the Teapot Dome scandal.....

I attended a panel today entitled, “Reconstituting Intellectual Power in the Academy: A Conversation Across Generations,” in which one of the elder members of the panel said (roughly) the following:

You have to understand, when I was in school we all thought the U.S. government was corrupt and inefficient. We were all influenced by the Teapot Dome scandal…..

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry. Twitter: @dandrezner

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