A regular guest on "The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour“ and NPR, Etzioni explores the rapidly growing grass-roots political movement that calls for a new balance between individual rights and social responsibilty. ”Shows us . . . how a philosophy based on shared values and mutual understanding can restore our nation's promise and moral leadership".—Sen. Bill Bradley.

Amitai Etzioni is University Professor at The George Washington University. A past President of the American Sociological Association, he is the author of nineteen books, including “The Moral Dimension” (The Free Press), “The Limits of Privacy” (Basic Books), and “The New Golden Rule” (Basic Books), which won the Simon Wiesenthal Center's 1997 Tolerance Book Award. He was recently awarded the Sociological Practice Association's Outstanding Contribution Award and the Seventh James Wilbur Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Appreciation and Advancement of Human Values.