Race
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Saving Icarus 2.0: AI Regulation Requires Extraordinary Partnerships
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to offer humanity enormous benefits, but ensuring that its progress aligns with democratic principles and human rights will require extraordinary coordination—political leaders engaged with technology leaders as partners, not adversaries—to craft a flexible regulatory framework. Read MoreAug. 2, 2021
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Jon Meacham featured on Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations on discovery+ (Video, Podcast)
On the new Super Soul interview series on discovery+, Oprah Winfrey sat down with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, co-chair of The Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy and Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt. View the clip… Read MoreApr. 21, 2021
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To Prove Yeats Wrong
Joe Biden, a "sensitive soul, equal parts poetry and politics" represents more than the sum of his past policy positions to Black voters. The President-elect's "simple, direct, yet profound humanity" and personal and honest experience with profound, soul-testing grief have cemented the bond between most of the Black electorate and Biden. Read MoreJan. 12, 2021