Who Is Government?

Best-selling author Michael Lewis discusses his new book, Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service, with Jeffrey Rosen. As government programs face political headwinds, Lewis and his favorite writers examine the human stories of the heroic civil servants who make government work and why their contributions matter. 

This conversation was originally streamed live as part of the NCC’s America’s Town Hall series on March 26, 2025. 

• Michael Lewis, ed., Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (2025)
• Michael Lewis, “The free‑living bureaucrat,” The Washington Post (March 2025)
• Michael Lewis, “Directions to a journalistic gold mine,” The Washington Post (Nov. 2024)
• Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (2022)
• Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk (2018)
• CURE ID

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