Talk: Norman Ornstein

“Coping With Dysfunction: How Can the American Political System Emerge From its Morass?”

Norman Ornstein is giving this year’s Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Lecture in Public Policy.  Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, who writes the weekly “Washington Inside Out” column for National Journal and The Atlantic. His books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future (AEI Press, 2000) and The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, with Thomas E. Mann (Oxford University Press, 2006) and It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism (also with Thomas Mann, Basic Books, 2012).