Eric B. Schnurer

Eric B. Schnurer is president of Public Works LLC, a policy consulting firm, and a former policy advisor and speechwriter to several US presidential candidates. He has been teaching a course on “The Future of Government” at the University of Chicago.

The Tide Turns

Eric B. Schnurer Jul 24, 2024

On the night of December 7, 1941 – Winston Churchill recorded the next day in his diary – he had “slept the sleep of the saved.” With the United States’ entry into World War II now assured as the result of the Japanese attack on Pearl…

Do the right thing

Eric B. Schnurer Jan 11, 2022

“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing”, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked. “After they’ve tried all the other alternatives.” Whether Churchill ever in fact said this (the evidence is “no”), it is even more…

The GOP future: we may be crazy, but we’re not stupid

Eric B. Schnurer Apr 21, 2021

The Grand Old Party is not disappearing any time soon. Despite the dire predictions of many analysts, the Republican Party is doing just fine. And while the Democrats are increasingly becoming the party of the well-educated and the…

Divided America and the Biden presidency

Eric B. Schnurer Feb 2, 2021

From the dossier Biden and the world, early steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efx7jS4_uMo&feature=youtu.be

A golden age of democracy

Eric B. Schnurer Jan 19, 2021

Let me state a bold claim: This is a golden age of democracy. That runs counter to the conventional wisdom of the last four years that there is a rising tide of authoritarianism sweeping across the globe, and especially the United States.…

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