What Now? Making Sense of the 2024 Presidential Election: A Post Election Panel with Frank Bruni, D. Sunshine Hillygus, and Peter Feaver

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The Duke Program in American Grand Strategy presents What Now? Making Sense of the 2024 Presidential Election: A Post Election Panel with Frank Bruni, D. Sunshine Hillygus, and Peter Feaver hosted by Abdullah Antepli.

This event will be held in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, in Rubenstein Library Room 153 at 12:00 PM.

Pizza and drinks will be provided for those who attend.

The event is co-sponsored with Duke POLIS: Center for Politics, DeWitt Wallace, the Office of Government Relations, and Political Science.

Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni joined the Duke faculty in 2021 after 25 years on the staff of the New York Times, where he remains a contributing Opinion writer and where he previously served as a Metro reporter, a White House correspondent, the Rome bureau chief, the chief restaurant critic and, for 10 years,  an Op-Ed columnist who appeared frequently as a television commentator. He was the Times’s first openly gay Op-Ed columnist and in 2016 was honored by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association with the Randy Shilts Award for his lifetime contribution to LGBTQ+ equality.

He also writes books and is the author of five New York Times best sellers: The Age of Grievance, a 2024 examination of America’s political dysfunction and culture wars; The Beauty of Dusk, a 2022 account of a rare stroke that impaired and imperiled his eyesight; Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be,  a 2015 examination of the college admissions frenzy; a 2009 memoir, Born Round, about the joys and torments of his eating life; and a 2002 chronicle of George W. Bush’s initial presidential campaign, Ambling into History.

Bruni joined the Times from the Detroit Free Press, where he was, alternately, a war correspondent, the chief movie critic and a religion writer. He has taught at Princeton University and been active at his alma mater, UNC-Chapel Hill, as an advisor on improving the undergraduate experience and the liberal arts curriculum. He was the university’s commencement speaker in 2022.

In his current role at the Times, Bruni writes a popular weekly newsletter (nytimes.com/BruniLetter) along with occasional longer essays, typically about American politics.

D. Sunshine Hillygus

Professor Hillygus has published widely on the topics of American political behavior, campaigns and elections, survey methods, public opinion, and information technology and politics.  She is co-author of Making Young Voters:  Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Social and Political Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). She is director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology (https://dism.duke.edu/) and co-director of the Polarization Lab (https://www.polarizationlab.com/).

Peter Feaver

Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University.  He is Director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy and Co-PI of the America in the World Consortium. Feaver is author of Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military (Oxford University Press, 2023), Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (Harvard Press, 2003) and of Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992). He is co-author: with Christopher Gelpi and Jason Reifler, of Paying the Human Costs of War (Princeton Press, 2009); with Susan Wasiolek and Anne Crossman, of Getting the Best Out of College (Ten Speed Press, 2008, 2nd edition 2012); and with Christopher Gelpi, of Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force (Princeton Press, 2004). He is co-editor, with Richard H. Kohn, of Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (MIT Press, 2001).  He has published numerous other monographs, scholarly articles, book chapters, and policy pieces on grand strategy, American foreign policy, public opinion, nuclear proliferation, civil-military relations, and cybersecurity.

From June 2005 to July 2007, Feaver served as Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council Staff at the White House where his responsibilities included the national security strategy, regional strategy reviews, and other political-military issues. In 1993-94, Feaver served as Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council at the White House where his responsibilities included the national security strategy review, counterproliferation policy, regional nuclear arms control, and other defense policy issues.  He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and is a contributor to “Shadow Government” at ForeignPolicy.com.