Speaker biographies
John Patrick Diggins is a distinguished professor of history at the Graduate Center City University of New York and a renowned student of American political and social thought. He has been described by the New York Times as “one of the liveliest and most interesting of contemporary intellectual historians.” Mr. Diggins the author of numerous books, including John Adams: The American Presidents Series, The Liberal Persuasion, The Lost Soul of American Politics, On Hallowed Ground , The Promise of Pragmatism, The Proud Decades, America in War and Peace, 1941–1960, Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy, and the forthcoming, Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History.
Peter J. Wallison joined AEI in January 1999 as a resident fellow and as co-director of AEI’s program on financial market deregulation. He previously practiced banking, corporate, and financial law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., and New York. From June 1981 to January 1985, Mr. Wallison was general counsel of the United States Treasury Department, where he had a significant role in the development of the Reagan administration's proposals for deregulation in the financial services industry. He also served as general counsel to the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee and participated in the Treasury Department's efforts to deal with the debt held by less developed countries. During 1986 and 1987, Mr. Wallison was White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan. Between 1972 and 1976, Mr. Wallison served first as special assistant to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and, subsequently, as counsel to Mr. Rockefeller when he was vice president of the United States.
Steven F. Hayward is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Environmental Studies at AEI and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. He is also an adjunct fellow at the John Ashbrook Center and a former Bradley Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Weaver Fellow of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, an Earhart Fellow, and the Olive Garvey Fellow of the Mont Pelerin Society. Mr. Hayward studies the environment, law, political economy, and the presidency. He is the author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, published jointly by the AEI Press and the Pacific Research Institute, and a number of other books, including The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964–1980; Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity; and Greatness. Hayward writes AEI’s Environmental Policy Outlook and has had works published in National Review, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reason, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and the Chicago Tribune.
Alan Wolfe is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, and a professor of political science at Boston College. He is also a senior fellow with the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York. He serves on the advisory boards of Humanity in Action and the Future of American Democracy Foundation, and sits on the president’s advisory board of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. He is the author of numerous of books, including Does American Democracy Still Work?, Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It, The Transformation of American Religion: How We actually Practice our Faith, and An Intellectual in Public and One Nation After All. Mr. Wolfe is a contributing editor of The New Republic, Wilson Quarterly, CommonWealth, and In Character, and is regularly published in CommonWealth, the New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly and the Washington Post.
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