Founding Endorsers of the Responsive Communitarian Platform

Signatures signify that we are of one mind on the broad thrust of this platform and the necessity of this intervention into the current dialogue, without necessarily agreeing to every single, specific statement.

Enola Aird, Activist mother, Connecticut
Rodolfo Alvarez, University of California, Los Angeles
John B. Anderson, Presidential Candidate, 1980
Benjamin R. Barber, Rutgers University; signing with exception to moral education section
Robert N. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley
Warren Bennis, University of Southern California
Janice M. Beyer, University of Texas, Austin; signing with exception to the family section
David Blankenhorn, President, Institute for American Values
John E. Brandl, University of Minnesota; former Minnesota State Senator, Representative
Joan Bronk, Former President, National Council of Jewish Women
Christine K. Cassel, The University of Chicago
James Childress, University of Virginia
Bryce J. Christensen, President, The Family in America, The Rockford Institute
Henry Cisneros, Former Mayor, San Antonio, Texas
John C. Coffee, Columbia University Law School
David Cohen, Co-Director, Advocacy Institute
Anthony E. Cook, Georgetown University Law School
Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School; signing with exception to cleaning up the polity section
Thomas E. Cronin, Colorado College
William D’Antonio, Catholic University
Dennis DeLeon, Commissioner and Chairman, New York City Commission on Human Rights
Thomas Donaldson, Georgetown University
Joseph Duffey, President, The American University
Thomas W. Dunfee, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Stuart E. Eizenstat, Attorney, Washington, D.C.
Lloyd Elliott, President Emeritus, George Washington University
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Vanderbilt University
Amitai Etzioni, The George Washington University
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Vanderbilt University
James Fishkin, University of Texas, Austin
Carol Tucker Foreman, Partner, Foreman & Heidepriem
Betty Friedan, New York City
Francis Fukuyama, The Rand Corporation
William A. Galston, University of Maryland
John W. Gardner, Stanford University
Neil Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley
J. Richard Gilliland, President, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska
Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School
T. George Harris, New York, NY
David K. Hart, Brigham Young University
F. Barton Harvey III, The Enterprise Foundation
Jeffrey R. Henig, George Washington University
Albert O. Hirschman, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
James Hunter, University of Virginia
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Attorney, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, and former Attorney General of the United States
Daniel Kemmis, Mayor, Missoula, Montana; signing with exception to second amendment section
Lawrence J. Korb, The Brookings Institution
Joyce A. Ladner, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Howard University
Hillel Levine, Boston University
George C. Lodge, Harvard Business School
Malcolm Lovell, Jr., President, National Planning Association
Duncan MacRae, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Frank Mankiewicz, Vice Chairman, Hill and Knowlton
Gary Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas McCollough, Duke University
Sanford N. McDonnell, Chairman Emeritus, McDonnell Douglas
John L. McKnight, Northwestern University
Catherine Milton, Executive Director, The Commission on National and Community Service
Newton N. Minow, Former F.C.C. Chairman; Attorney, Chicago, Illinois
Charles Moskos, Northwestern University
Ilene H. Nagel, U.S. Sentencing Commission and Indiana University
William C. Norris, Chairman, William C. Norris Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
John Parr, President, National Civic League
Orlando Patterson, Harvard University
Michael Pertschuk, Co-Director, Advocacy Institute
Sylvia L. Peters, Founding Partner, The Edison Project
Chase N. Peterson, President-Emeritus, University of Utah
Grethe B. Peterson, University of Utah
Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University
David Popenoe, Rutgers University
Alejandro Portes, Johns Hopkins University
Lonnie C. Rich, City Council Member, Alexandria, Virginia
Elliot L. Richardson, Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and former Attorney General of the United States
David Riesman, Harvard University; signing with exception to cleaning up the polity section
Alice S. Rossi, Former President, American Sociological Association; Amherst, Massachusetts
William D. Ruckelshaus, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Browning-Ferris Industries; Houston, Texas
George Rupp, President, Rice University
David Rusk, Former Mayor, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Isabel Sawhill, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
Kurt L. Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore
Claudine Schneider, Chair of the Board, Renew America
Richard F. Schubert, President & CEO, Points of Light Foundation
William F. Schulz, President, Unitarian Universalist Association
Philip Selznick, University of California, Berkeley
Albert Shanker, President, American Federation of Teachers
Fred Siegel, Cooper Union
Gillian Martin Sorensen, President, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Inc.
Thomas Spragens, Jr., Duke University
Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, Editor, Commonweal
Adlai E. Stevenson, Chicago, Illinois
Peter L. Strauss, Columbia University
William Sullivan, LaSalle University
Robert Theobald, New Orleans, Louisiana
Lester C. Thurow, Dean, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Thursz, President, The National Council on the Aging
Kenneth Tollett, Howard University
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Amherst, Massachusetts
Dennis H. Wrong, New York University
Daniel Yankelovich, President, Public Agenda Foundation
American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities

The affiliations and titles of those who have endorsed the platform are listed as they were at the time the platform was endorsed.

Organizations are listed for identification only.

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