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“What Are Foundations For?” at Harvard

Rob Reich discusses his views on the role of foundations in democratic societies, as articulated in his Boston Review forum essay "What Are Foundations For?" 

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May 29, 2013

Rob Reich is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and coauthor, with Jeremy M. Weinstein and Mehran Sahami, of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.

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