Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, formerly Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Helath and Human Services, in the Clinton Administration.

Blog Entries by Peter Edelman

Chasms of Difference

Posted September 5, 2005 | 12:04 PM (EST)


There are so many lessons to be learned from this terrible tragedy. I want to emphasize just one, but it's a big one. We have seen and heard much about the failure of FEMA and the failure of the federal government generally, and the connections of that failure to budget...

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"America Is Becoming More Virtuous"?

Posted August 16, 2005 | 03:36 PM (EST)


I'm a little slow in responding to David Brooks' New York Times column of August 7 ("The Virtues of Virtue"), because I've been on vacation and trying to free my mind of this sort of thing, but I just can't sit this one out.

"America is becoming more virtuous"?...

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