Amitai Etzioni

Activist, Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Global soul, Idea generator, Jewish, Parent, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Amitai Etzioni served as a senior advisor to the White House, was a professor at Columbia, Harvard, and Berkeley, and is currently University Professor and Professor of International Relations at The George Washington University. He served as president of the American Sociological Association and as a leader of the communitarian movement. His books include The Active Society, The New Golden Rule, The Limits of Privacy, and Security First.

my family and my calling as a public voice for the common good, of which security is the one most treasured.

We are each other's keepers.

My son is a TED-nick. On July 5, he and his wife delivered a future TED member. And I will rush to his bris, and hence sadly leave TED early.