Try Common Sense
Join us for a reception, dinner, and book discussion with Philip K. Howard. In his new book, Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left, Howard argues that it’s time for Americans to hit the reset button on government.
Only a radical re-simplification of government—including mechanisms to hold public officials accountable—can free everyday people to roll up their sleeves and make things work, argues Howard. Yet doing so will require a comprehensive rethinking of how we conduct public policy and how we structure our institutions.
Speaker
Philip K. Howard is the founder and chair of Common Good and senior counsel at Covington & Burling. His books include The Rule of Nobody (2014), a Hayek Prize finalist, Life Without Lawyers (2009), The Collapse of the Common Good (2002), and The Death of Common Sense (1995), a New York Times bestseller. Howard’s 2010 TED Talk, “Four Ways to Fix a Broken Legal System,” has been viewed more than 650,000 times. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.