Date: March 20, 2025

Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm

Location: Kerwin 301

While everyone perceives the anger and polarization in our polity, no one seems to know what to do about it. Except Ian Shapiro. Come hear his analyses and proposed solutions.         

Ian Shapiro is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at Yale University. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he received his J.D. from the Yale Law School and his Ph.D. from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. Shapiro was Director of Yale’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies from 2004-2019. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town, Keio University in Tokyo, Nuffield College, Oxford, and Sciences Po in Paris. His most recent books are Politics Against Domination (2016), Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself (with Frances Rosenbluth, 2018), The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and how to Fight It (with Michael Graetz, 2020), and Uncommon Sense (2024).