Jul 1
I contributed a chapter, “Estrategias Para Gobernar: Los Fundamentos De La Administración Pública,” to Debates Emergentes Sobre Administración Y Políticas Públicas, edited by Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna and Alberto Casas Benitez. Mexico City: FLACSO Mexico, 2025. 297–320. Details here.
My article “The Crisis of Design in American Government” has just been published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration. Read it here. This paper is based on my May 2025 Levine Lecture at American University. You can watch a short explainer video about the article here.
Choice, which is part of the American Library Association, has included The Adaptable Country in its June 2025 list of Top 75 Community College Titles. The complete list is here.
The Choice review says: “”Governments, like living organisms, must adapt to their environments or they will die. This is the premise of Roberts’s timely book. Roberts argues that Canada needs both regular and monumental Royal Commission–style efforts to discuss, weigh, plan, and execute ideas to help it adapt to rapidly changing conditions at home and abroad. [H]is analyses of the problem should be given very serious attention.”
My article “The Crisis That Made Trump Possible Didn’t Start with Trump” was published by The Walrus on June 17. Read it here.
I spoke with guest host Angela Kokott about my op-ed in the Globe and Mail about the need for an annual Canada Summit. Listen here.
My op-ed on the need for annual meetings of Canada’s first ministers and Indigenous leaders was published in the Globe and Mail on June 9. Read it here.
On May 4, I talked with Mercedes Stephenson on Global News’ The West Block about my book The Adaptable Country. Full video here; interview starts about four minutes in .
May 3
I’m looking forward to delivering the 2025 Charles Levine Memorial Lecture at American University’s School of Public Affairs on May 2, 2025. The title of my lecture is “The Broken Republic.” A background paper is available on SSRN | Read the introduction on Substack.
I’m looking forward to being a keynote speaker at the Ontario Hospital Association’s Health Care Leadership Summit, being held in Toronto on May 1. You can read a Q&A on the OHA website related to my talk.
On April 30, I spoke with Sam Dingman of KJZZ FM about the dangers of the “hundred days” benchmark for new presidents. Listen here. The interview was based on my 2021 article for Wilson Quarterly, “The Hundred Day Mistake.”
Alasdair S. Roberts 
