Commencement Forum — The Great Divide: A Conversation with Chris Hayes ’01

The Watson School’s Commencement Forum features Dean John Friedman in conversation with Chris Hayes ’01 to discuss the upcoming midterm elections, the state of politics in our increasingly online world, and his new book The Sirens Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource.

Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award-winning anchor of “All In with Chris Hayes” at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday through Friday on MS NOW. He is the anchor of the MS NOW Original podcast “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast.”

“Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast” launched in May 2018 and new episodes are released weekly on Tuesdays wherever podcasts are available. Each week on the podcast, Chris Hayes asks the big questions that keep him up at night. How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in world history? “Why is This Happening?” is presented by MS NOW and features interviews with political figures, journalists, writers, and academics.

Previously, Hayes anchored the weekend program “Up w/ Chris Hayes,” which premiered in 2011. Prior to joining MS NOW as an anchor, he had served as a frequent substitute anchor for “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” Hayes became an MS NOW contributor in 2010 and has been with “The Nation” since 2007.

Hayes is a former Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. From 2008-2010, he was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. From 2005 to 2006, he was a Schumann Center Writing Fellow at In These Times.

Since 2002, Hayes has written on a wide variety of political and social issues, from union organizing and economic democracy, to the intersection of politics and technology. His essays, articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, The Guardian, and The Chicago Reader.

Hayes published his most recent book, “The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource,” in January 2025. The book debuted at #1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Hayes’ first book, “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy,” which is about the crisis of authority in American life, was published in June 2012 and was also a New York Times best-seller.

Hayes grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Brown University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. He lives in New York with his wife and three children. Receive SMS online on sms24.me

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