April 18, 2005
Speaker Biographies
Christopher DeMuth is president of AEI. Before coming to AEI in 1986, he was managing director of Lexecon, Inc., an economics consulting firm (1984–1986); editor and publisher of Regulation magazine (1986–1987); administrator for regulatory affairs at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration (1981–1984); lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government and director of the Harvard Faculty Project on Regulation (1977–1981); and a lawyer in private practice (1973–1977). His articles on government regulation and other subjects have appeared in The Public Interest, the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The American Enterprise, and elsewhere.
Sally L. Satel, M.D. is a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI, Dr. Satel was a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine. She continues to be a staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic and a senior associate at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, both in Washington, D.C. She has written widely in academic journals on topics in psychiatry and addiction medicine, and has published articles on cultural aspects of medicine and science in the New York Times, The New Republic, Commentary, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Satel is author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001) and Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (AEI Press, 1999). She is coauthor with Christina Hoff Sommers of One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance (St. Martin's Press, April 2005).
Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at AEI. She has been a professor of philosophy at Clark University since 1981. She specializes in ethics and contemporary moral theory and has published many scholarly articles in such journals as the Journal of Philosophy and the New England Journal of Medicine. Sommers is editor of Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life--one of the most popular ethics textbooks in the country. She became known to the wider public as the author of Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women. Her latest book, The War Against Boys, has received widespread attention and praise and was excerpted for a cover story in the Atlantic Monthly. It was included in the New York Times' "Notable Books of the Year." Sommers has been published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and USA Today, and has appeared on Nightline, ABC Evening News, Crossfire, 20/20, Politically Incorrect, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. She is coauthor with Sally Satel of One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance (St. Martin's Press, April 2005).
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