Joseph Nye Jr. was born on 19 January 1937 in South Orange, New Jersey, USA. He was married to Mary "Molly" Harding. He died on 6 May 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Nye was a frequent critic of Donald Trump, who he viewed as a reckless opponent of the institutions that strengthened America's global standing. He was an ardent defender of Harvard and other universities against what he viewed as external pressure campaigns which both are from donors and from the government.
Seduction is always more effective than coercion. And many of our values, such as democracy, human rights and individual opportunity, are deeply seductive.
