David Callahan

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David Callahan

David Callahan (born June 14, 1965 ) is an American political scientist, media activist, lecturer and author. He is co-founder of the Think Tank Demo and founder of the Inside Philanthropy website . His printed work includes non-fiction books on the history of politics in the United States and a novel.

life and work

David Callahan is a son of the philosopher Daniel Callahan and the psychologist Sidney Callahan, b. DeShazo. He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson , a suburb of New York City, and attended high school there. After studying at Hampshire College in Amherst , Massachusetts, from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1987, he worked from 1989 to 1990 for the quarterly magazine The American Prospect , published in Washington, DC , and went to Princeton University in 1991 , where he received his doctorate in political science in 1997 .

Callahan has been publishing books since 1990. From 1994 to 1999 was a fellow at the New York Century Foundation . In 2000 he co-founded the New York Think Tank Demos , which focuses on the reform of the electoral system, economic security, sustainability and alternative paths to economic progress.

In 2004 Callahan published his best-known book to date, The cheating culture . In it he develops the thesis that there is an increase in unethical behavior in the USA, the cause of which lies primarily in neoliberalism and the increasing social inequality that comes with it. In the libertarian monthly magazine Reason , Julian Sanchez accused him of presuming to be able to deal with "a dizzying range of behaviors" - from illegal downloads to tax fraud - with a single explanation ( namely Milton Friedman's guilt ).

In 2013, Callahan left Demos and started Inside Philanthropy , a news website that aims to make the nonprofit sector clearer and more transparent for the public.

Publications

German translations of Callahan's books are not yet available.

Non-fiction

  • Dangerous Capabilities: Paul Nitze and the Cold War . Harper Collins, New York 1990, ISBN 978-0-06-016266-5 .
  • Between Two Worlds: Realism, Idealism, and American Foreign Policy After the Cold War . Harper Collins, New York 1994, ISBN 978-0-06-018213-7 .
  • Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict . Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-8090-1610-5 .
  • Kindred Spirits: Harvard Business School's Extraordinary Class of 1949 and How They Transformed American Business . Wiley, Hoboken 2002, ISBN 978-0-471-41819-1 .
  • The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead . Harcourt, Orlando, FL 2004, ISBN 978-0-15-101018-9 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • The Moral Center: How Progressives Can Unite America Around Our Shared Values . Harcourt, Orlando, FL 2006, ISBN 978-0-15-101151-3 .
  • Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America . Wiley, Hoboken 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-17711-2 .

novel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Hedges : Public Lives; A Liberal With New Emphasis on Old Values. In: New York Times. June 15, 2004, accessed February 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ David Callahan on LinkedIn. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Demos. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
  4. ^ Julian Sanchez: Cheating Heart. In: reason.com. July 2004, accessed February 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Callahan, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American non-fiction author and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1965