Wed 10/1 @ 6:00PM
Online webinar

Please note this event is now Zoom only.  Click here for more information and to register: https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/14322548

Join the Princeton Public Library for a virtual webinar as Cass Sunstein presents his new book On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom.

Cass Sunstein’s book On Liberalism is a much-needed defense of liberalism: what it is, why it is under threat, and why we need it more than ever. Sunstein offers a timely and clear understanding of liberalism—of its core commitments, of its breadth, of its internal debates, of its evolving character, of its promise—and why we need it more than ever.  He also shows how and why liberalism has been, and should be, appealing to both the left and the right. Never more urgently needed, On Liberalism moves the conversation well beyond the reductive and inflammatory political sound bites of our moment and advances a compelling argument on behalf of liberalism as the foundation of freedom and self-government.

Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway.  From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President’s Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. Mr. Sunstein is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide; The Cost-Benefit Revolution; On Freedom; and Too Much Information. He served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security during the Biden Administration, where he focused on resilience against weather-related and on reduction of administration burdens; he was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Department’s highest civilian honor, in 2024.

This event is cosponsored by The Princeton Public Library and Labyrinth Books.