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My name is Matt Bieber. I study politics, religion, and public discourse at Harvard's Kennedy and Divinity schools. I’ve drafted speeches for Vice President Biden and crafted communications strategies for NGOs in East Africa. I also spent two-and-a-half years in the corporate sector. Read more about me here.Subscribe to This Blog
Before the Next News Cycle
by Matt B. on March 22, 2010
Last night, Americans extended health care coverage to tens of millions of our fellow citizens. As far as I can tell, this is the single most important instance of social progress since the Great Society.
Before our national conversation moves on to the details of implementation, (or to another issue entirely) it seems important to pause and reflect on what’s been at stake throughout this process – our commitments to one another as citizens of this country and as human beings. Quite often, we preach a poetic set of moral values, but we live by another set of values entirely. Last night, we closed that gap a little bit.