Back in the Square

As I mentioned earlier in the week, my good friend and Dean’s former campaign manager Joe Trippi invited Michael Silberman and I up to Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government. Joe is a fellow there this fall (along with fellow Vermonter Jeff Amestoy and one of my journalism heroes Ben Bradlee), which is a program that brings in incredible people from government, politics, and media for a semester where they get to take classes at the University and be generally involved in return for teaching a weekly study group.
Trippi’s is on campaigning in the 21st century, and he invited us to speak about what it was like being young campaign workers with major responsibilities, as well as to talk more broadly about the changing role of the internet in politics. Thus, until it can be proven otherwise, I became the first member of the Harvard Class of 2004 invited back to campus as a speaker.
The discussion was great fun and very interesting (to us, at least), and Michael has reported on the meat of the matter. The Official Joe Trippi at Harvard website has posted some photos of Michael and my talk there on Tuesday; alas, there’s only one photo that looks decent.
It felt so wonderful to back in Cambridge and wandering around the Square. It was my first time there in four months