Bio
Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. From 2009 to 2012, he was administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School.
Featured Work
APR 23, 2019 • Podcast
How Change Happens, with Cass Sunstein
From the French Revolution to the Arab Spring to #MeToo, how does social change happen? In a book that was 25 years in the making, Cass ...
MAY 9, 2017 • Podcast
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
How is today's Internet driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism—and what can be done about it? Legal scholar Cass Sunstein shares the results ...
SEP 7, 2007 • Podcast
Republic.com 2.0
The internet offers us unprecedented access to information. Yet it also allows us to block out diverse ideas, selecting only articles and blogs that reinforce ...
SEP 11, 2003 • Transcript
Why Societies Need Dissent
Based on research of group polarization, Cass Sunstein makes a convincing case that societies function better if they allow dissent.