He went to the Collegiate School, graduating in the year 1996. Ben’s brother, David Rhodes, is a former President of CBS News. He is the son of a Jewish mom from New York and an Episcopal dad from Texas. He was born Novemin the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. William has written widely on separation-of-powers issues and American political institutions, and he is also a host of the Not Another Politics Podcast.Ben Rhodes is a political commentator, writer, and national security analyst. He holds additional appointments in the Harris School of Public Policy and the College.

from Rice University and an M.F.A from New York University.Ībout the interlocutor: William Howell is the Director of the Center for Effective Government, the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago, chair of the political science department, and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His work has also been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made and The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House.

In that capacity, he participated in all of President Obama’s key decisions, and oversaw the President’s national security communications, speechwriting, and public diplomacy. From 2009-2017, Ben served as a Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama. He is currently a contributor for NBC News and MSNBC co-host of Pod Save the World a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama and chair of National Security Action, which he co-founded with Jake Sullivan in 2018. At the same time, Rhodes learns from the stories of a diverse set of characters-from Barack Obama himself to Cuban rebels to a rising generation of international leaders-that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong makes clear how essential it is to fight for what America is supposed to be, for our own country and the entire world.Ībout the author: Ben Rhodes is a writer, political commentator, and national security analyst. In his travels, Ben Rhodes comes to realize how much America’s fingerprints are on a world we helped to shape, through our post–Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism and our post-9/11 nationalism and militarism our mania for technology and social media and the racism that fueled the backlash to America’s first Black president. Presented in partnership with the Center for Effective GovernmentĪbout the book: Part memoir and part reportage, After the Fall is a hugely ambitious work of discovery. Ben Rhodes will discuss After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made. He will be joined in conversation by William Howell.

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