Master of Public Policy

Well, always a pleasure.

And finalmente, Steven Pimpare is professor of public policy and director of the Master's in Public Policy program at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

He's the author of four books, numerous articles, and the host of the new book network's Public Policy Channel.

Let me welcome you to the program as well.

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Leave Penny Lane out of this

... [laughs] hi, and director of the Master's in Public Policy program at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

So, uh, you don't want to rehabilitate Bush, you don't want to rehabilitate Karl Rove.

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Steven Pimpare is a professor of public policy and director of the Masters in Public Policy program at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

He's the author of four books, numerous articles, and the host of the New Books Network's Public Policy Channel.

Welcome back, Steven.

He served two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He has a bronze star, and he earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard.

Instead, I've argued that Hegseth is simply unremarkable.

As I said during his nomination process, Hegseth represents the opposite of a meritocracy.

A few months later, we moved to Cambridge.

I started the Masters of Public Policy.

at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and that is effectively kind of a breeding ground and a mandatory stopping point for politicians and policymakers.

The cool thing is, at that school, when there's a Republican in office, which there was at the time, all of the Democrat cabinet members drop out of the White House, out of the cabinet, out of the administration, and they go to Harvard Kennedy School and resume their professorships.

Uh, and finalement, Steven Pimpare.

He's a professor of public policy and director of the Masters of Public Policy program at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

He's the author of four books, numerous articles, and the host of New Book Network's Public Policy Channel.

Welcome back, Steven.

yeah 100 so what does the next chapter of with you we can look like for you what is you know what's on the horizon in terms of where you want to take the work

i've been asked about this recently because because I'm about to begin my Master of Public Policy at Oxford.

And so I'll be stepping back for a year, not stepping away, but stepping back.

And it's difficult to conceptualize, you know, loosening my grip on the reins.