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Past Smith Foundation Events To subscribe to our event podcast, paste the following URL into your podcast aggregator: thesmithfamilyfoundation.org/podcast.xml To download a file, right-click (mac users control-click) on the link and select "save as." Video is in QuickTime format, audio is in MP3 format. ------------------------------------------------- Please note that the entrance to the NY Public Library for Performing Arts is on 111 Amsterdam Avenue between 64th and 65th St. The Credit Crisis: What Caused it and What, If Anything, Should We Do About it? Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Featuring James Lardner James Lardner is a senior fellow at Demos and co-author of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt. Prof. George Selgin George A. Selgin is a professor of Economics in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. His principal research areas are monetary and banking theory, monetary history, and macroeconomics. John Taylor John Taylor is President and CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. Raised in the housing projects of Boston and trained as an attorney, he has dedicated his life to economic justice. Walker Todd Walker Todd is a reasearch fellow at the American Insititute of Economic Research. He is an attorney admitted to practice in Ohio and New York and is an economic consultant with 20 years’ experience at the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Cleveland. Moderator: Bob Bowdon Co-Sponsors: International Policy Network The Smith Family Foundation ------------------------------------------------- In the Hot Seat! A live interview and public Q&A with Bjorn Lomborg author of The Skeptical Environmentalist Thursday, April 10th, 2008 6:30 P.M. Prompt (Free and open to the public) The Graduate School and University Center The City University of New York 365 Fifth Ave For more information contact Dawn Steeves at dawn@policynetwork.net Bjorn Lomborg is the author of the bestsellers Cool It and The Skeptical Environmentalist. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2004 and one of the "50 people who could save the planet" by the UK Guardian in 2008. He has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. He is presently an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and in 2004 he started the Copenhagen Consensus, a conference of top economists who come together to prioritize the best solutions for the world's greatest challenges. Moderator: Bob Bowdon Co-Sponsors: International Policy Network, The Smith Family Foundation ------------------------------------------------- “Is Islam compatible with capitalism?” Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Featuring Mustafa Akyol Mustafa Akyol is opinion editor and a columnist for Turkish Daily News, Turkey's foremost English-language daily. He also writes a regular column for the Turkish national daily and runs a blog at www.thewhitepath.com (The White Path is a literal translation of “Akyol”). David Kelley, PhD David Kelley is Founder and Senior Fellow of The Atlas Society. Among his books are Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence; The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand; The Evidence of the Senses, a treatise on epistemology; and The Art of Reasoning , one of the most widely used logic textbooks in the country. Moderator: Bob Bowdon Co-Sponsors: International Policy Network, The Smith Family Foundation ------------------------------------------------- “Should the US Reduce or Increase the Rate of Immigration?” Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Featuring Tamar Jacoby Adjunct Fellow, Manhattan Institute Tamar writes extensively on immigration and citizenship and is the author of Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American. A leading voice in the media and elsewhere in favor of immigration reform, she works to organize the center-right behind reform proposals taking shape in Washington. Jack Martin Director of Special Projects, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) Jack, who joined FAIR in 1995, is a retired U.S. diplomat with consular experience. He has testified before the U.S. Congress, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and has authored studies of immigration issues. His national and international print, TV, and talk radio experience is extensive (including in Spanish). Moderator: Julian Morris Executive Director, International Policy Network Co-Sponsors: Manhattan Institute, International Policy Network, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), The Smith Family Foundation ------------------------------------------------- Is the War on Terror a threat to liberty and security? Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Featuring Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Peace and Liberty, The Independent Institute Author:The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed and Putting “Defense” Back into U.S. Defense Policy, as well as The Efficacy of Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool Andrew C. McCarthy Director, Center for Law and Counterterrorism Foundation for Defense of Democracies Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor and a Contributor at National Review Online. From 1993 through 1996, while an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he led the prosecution against the jihad organization of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, in which a dozen Islamic militants were convicted of conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Moderator: Julian Morris Executive Director International Policy Network Co-Sponsors: Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, International Policy Network, The Independent Institute ------------------------------------------------- Should America be Energy Independent? Wednesday, Nov 14th, 2007 Featuring Jerry Taylor Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Author:Don't Increase Federal Gasoline Taxes—Abolish Them [with Peter Van Doren] Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. Founder, President and CEO, Center for Security Policy Author: War Footing: Ten Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World Rick Duke National Resource Defense Council Rick Duke comes to NRDC from McKinsey & Company, where he consulted on strategy, operations, organization and talent management. Most recently at McKinsey, Rick did a risk management and growth strategy study for one of the largest developers of clean development mechanisms. Prior to that, Rick led a team that assessed the cost-effectiveness of global greenhouse gas abatement opportunities. Currently, Rick is working on a similar assessment of greenhouse gas abatement technologies in the United States for NRDC. Moderator: Bob Bowdon Co-Sponsors: Center for Security Policy, International Policy Network, National Resource Defense Council ------------------------------------------------- The Future of Black America: The burden of history or the audacity of hope? Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 Featuring Orlando Patterson John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard Author:The Ordeal of Integration John H. McWhorter Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Institute Author:Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America Algernon Austin Senior Fellow, Demos Author:Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America Moderator: Felicia Lee The New York Times Co-Sponsors: Demos ------------------------------------------------- Health Care Crisis: What Will Cure the System’s Ailments? Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 Featuring Jonathan Cohn Senior Editor, The New Republic Senior Fellow, Demos Author:Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price VS. Sally Pipes President and CEO, The Pacific Research Institute Author: Miracle Cure: How to Solve America’s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer Co-Sponsors: Demos & The Pacific Research Institute Moderator: Bob Bowdon Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Civil Rights & Urban Education: What is necessary to overcome educational Inequality? Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 6:30 P.M. Prompt Featuring Harold Ford, Jr. Former Congressman Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council Professor of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University and Clint Bolick President and General Counsel, Alliance for School Choice Co-Founder, Institute for Justice Author: Voucher Wars Moderator Philip Hamburger Professor, Columbia Law Co-Sponsor: Columbia Law Federalist Society Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Rent Regulation: Should Governor Spitzer Enhance or Phase Out New York’s Current System? Monday, March 26th, 2007 Featuring Peter D. Salins University Professor, Stony Brook University Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute Former SUNY Provost VS. Craig Gurian Executive Director, Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York Scholar-in-Residence, Stein Center for Law and Ethics & Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School Moderator Elise Boddie Professor, Fordham Law Co-Sponsors: Fordham Law Federalist Society, American Constitution Society & the Fordham Housing Advocacy Project Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- The Time for Talks: Can and should the U.S. make deals with Iran and Syria? Tuesday February 13th, 2007 Featuring Hillel Fradkin Expert Working Group to the Iraq Study Group & Director, Center for Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, The Hudson Institute Steven Clemons Senior Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program, The New America Foundation Justin Logan Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute Yaron Brook former Israeli Military Intelligence Officer & Executive Director, Ayn Rand Institute Moderator Harvey Shapiro Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Medical Marijuana: Should the sick be able to smoke? Thursday, January 18th, 2007 Featuring Bob Barr Former Congressman 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union V. Ethan Nadelmann Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance Moderator James E. Fleming Professor at Fordham Law, author of Securing Constitutional Democracy Co-Sponsors: Fordham Law Federalist Society & American Constitution Society Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Economic Anxiety: The new normal or a result of bad policies? Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 (Please note this is not at CUNY) Featuring David Leonhardt Economics Columnist, New York Times Nomi Prins Demos Senior Fellow Author: Jacked: How Conservatives are Picking Your Pocket & Other People’s Money Alan Reynolds Cato Institute, Senior Fellow Author: Income and Wealth Moderator Harvey Shapiro Institutional Investor Co-Sponsors: DEMOS Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- The Promise of Freedom: Is America On Course? Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 (Please note this is not at CUNY) Featuring David Boaz Executive Vice President, Cato Institute Author:Libertarianism: A Primer, The Libertarian Reader (editor) John E. Schwarz Demos Senior Fellow Professor, University of Arizona Author: Freedom Reclaimed: Rediscovering the American Vision Moderator Errol Louis New York Daily News Co-Sponsors: DEMOS & The Cato Institute Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Is Free Speech a Victim of Campaign Finance Reform? Monday, October 30th, 2006 (Please note this is not at CUNY) Featuring Burt Neuborne Professor, NYU Law & Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice VS. Bradley Smith Professor, Capital University Law Former Chairman Federal Election Commission Moderator Jerry H. Goldfeder Election Lawyer & Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law Co-Sponsors: Fordham Law Federalist Society & American Constitution Society Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Should International Law be Part of Our Law? Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 (Please note this is not at CUNY) Featuring Martin Flaherty Professor & Co-Director, Crowley Program in International Human Rights, Fordham Law School VS. Ronald A. Cass President, Cass & Associates, PC Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Law, 2004- (Dean from 1990-2004) Moderator Toni Fine Dean of International Programs at Fordham Law School Co-Sponsors: Fordham Law Federalist Society, Fordham Law American Constitution Society & The Fordham International Law Journal Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Responding to Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: Have We Been Effective Since 9/11? Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Featuring David Frum American Enterprise Institute Author: An End to Evil -And- The Right Man Craig Charney President, Charney Research Award winning Pollster of Arab Attitudes Leon T. Hadar Cato Institute Author: Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Did the Progressives Rewrite the Constitution? Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 Featuring Richard Epstein James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago VS. William Treanor Dean and Professor of Law, Fordham University Moderator Francis J. Menton Jr. Partner, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- What To Do About Warming? Tuesday May 23rd, 2006 Featuring James Hansen Climate Scientist, Columbia University and Steven Hayward F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Moderator Harvey Shapiro Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Doing Away with Tax Day: How can we get to a fairer and less cumbersome code? April 11th Featuring Neal Boortz The Neal Boortz Radio Show Author of The New York Times bestseller The FairTax Book VS. Michael J. Graetz Yale School of Law Author:The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax Moderator Harvey Shapiro Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Kelo and its Consequences: Should homeowners fear the Supreme Court’s decision? March 14th Featuring Scott Bullock Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice Counsel to Susette Kelo in her Supreme Court case VS. Michael Dorf Columbia University School of Law Author:No Litmus Test: Law and Politics in the 21st Century Moderator Harvey Shapiro Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor Co-Sponsor: The Federalist Society New York Lawyers Chapter Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Should We Stay Or Should We Go? An Immediate Iraq withdrawal & its alternatives February 7th, 2006 Featuring General William E. Odom Professor Yale University Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Co-Author: America’s Inadvertent Empire VS. Peter Brookes Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs, Heritage Foundation Author: A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, WMD and Rogue States Moderator Gideon Rose Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- The Politics of Science: Are politicians giving us the right prescriptions? January 10, 2006 Featuring Chris Mooney Seed Magazine Author: The Republican War on Science Ronald Bailey Reason Magazine Author: Liberation Biology Wesley J. Smith Discovery Institute Author: Consumer's Guide to A Brave New World Moderator Nicholas Wade Science Reporter, The New York Times Author: Before the Dawn (April '06) Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Resolved: Radical Islam is Taking Over Europe: Is a WWII war spirit necessary to save Western Civilization? December 13, 2005 Featuring Tony Blankley Editorial Page Editor The Washington Times Author: The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? VS. Jonathan Clarke Research Fellow, Cato Institute Counselor, British Diplomatic Service (Retired) Author: America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order Moderator Harvey Shapiro Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Porn in the Age of Instant Access: What are the social effects of fast, cheap & stigma-free viewing? Monday, November 21st 2005 Featuring Nick Gillespie Editor, Reason Magazine Rachel Kramer Bussel Columnist Village Voice & Penthouse Pamela Paul author Pornified & The Starter Marriage Robert W. Peters President, Morality In The Media Moderator Brooke Gladstone NPR’s On The Media Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Resolved: The Hollywood Reds Did More Harm Than Good What are the contemporary lessons of McCarthyism? Thursday, October 27th Featuring Victor Navasky Publisher, The Nation Magazine Author: A Matter of Opinion & Naming Names VS. Ronald Radosh Adjunct Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Author: Red Star Over Hollywood & Commies Moderator Leonard Lopate WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show Sponsored by The Nation. Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Subway Security: Are Random Searches, Surveillance Cameras and Underground Cell Phones What New York Needs? CUNY TV air times (ch 75): PART 1: Wed Oct 5 at 7am, 1pm, 7:30pm; Sat Oct 8 at 10am; Sun Oct 9 at 11pm PART 2: Wed Oct 12 at 7am, 1pm, 7:30pm; Sat Oct 15 at 10am; Sun Oct 16 at 11pm Monday, September 12th WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show Featuring David Harris Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo and author of Profiles In Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work Donna Lieberman Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union Heather MacDonald John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal Guy Martin terrorism columnist for New York magazine and contributor to the Conde Nast Traveller Sohail Mohammed Immigration Attorney and advocate in New Jersey Robert Paaswell former head of the Chicago Transportation System and director of the University Transportation Research Center at City College Stephen J. Ellmann Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the New York Law School Moderator Brian Lehrer Additional guests may be added for this two-hour radio event Event will be broadcast on The Brian Lehrer Show which airs weekdays 10am-noon on 93.9FM and AM 820 Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Subway Security: Part 2 Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Social Security: What are the best solutions for sustainability & improvement? Tuesday, June 14th Featuring Pat Toomey President Club for Growth David Certner AARP Federal Affairs Director Herman Cain New Voter Alliance CEO Hilary Shelton NAACP Washington Bureau Director Moderator Errol Louis Columnist, New York Daily News Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Israel and Palestine: Is a sustainable resolution finally within reach? Tuesday, May 10th Featuring Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University Author: Resurrecting Empire Bernard Wasserstein Ulrich and Harriet Meyer Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Chicago Author: Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop? - and - Divided Jerusalem Moderator Harvey Shapiro Senior Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Tax Reform: Is there a better way? Thursday, April 21st Featuring David Cay Johnston Pulitzer Prize Winning New York Times Journalist Author: Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else Steve Moore President, Free Enterprise Fund Author: Bullish on Bush: How George Bush's Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger Moderator Jacob Weisberg editor of Slate, co-author In an Uncertain World Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- American Cowboy Capitalism vs. Euro-sclerosis: Which Model will end up in the dustbin of history? Tuesday, March 8th Featuring Jeff Madrick The New York Times, contributing economics columnist Director, Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School Author:Why Economies Grow Edmund S. Phelps McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University Author, Enterprise and Inclusion in Italy Moderator Harvey Shapiro Senior Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- The Nuclear Middle East: Is there a clear & consistent policy to contain this risk? Tuesday, February 8th Featuring Kenneth M. Pollack Director Sarban Center, Brookings Institution Reuel Marc Gerecht Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Avner Cohen Professor, University of Maryland Moderator Richard K. Betts Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Outsourcing & Offshoring: Boon to economic growth or bane to employees & their incomes? Tuesday, January 11th Featuring Matthew Slaughter Economics Professor, Dartmouth (Tuck) Lee Price Research Director, Economic Policy Institute Moderator Harvey Shapiro Senior Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- Schools + Money = Smarter Students: Obvious arithmetic or an education fairy tale? Wednesday, December 15th Featuring Michael A. Rebell Executive Director, Campaign for Fiscal Equity Eric Hanushek Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute at Stanford University Moderator Harvey Shapiro Senior Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor Watch a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download a video of this event Right-click and choose "save as" to download audio of this event ------------------------------------------------- The West Side Stadium: An effective stimulus or an unaffordable subsidy? Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 Featuring Richard Ravitch Former MTA Commissioner David I. Weprin Chair of the City Council Finance Committee Thomas K. Wright Regional Plan Association John H. Alschuler Jr. President HR&A Moderator Craig Whitaker President, City Club of NY ------------------------------------------------- Flip-Flops, Spin, & Outright Lies: Is honesty possible in politics and which party has a stronger claim to it? Tuesday, October 19, 2004 Featuring Dan Senor Former Chief Spokesperson for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and Senior Advisor to Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III Bryan Keefer Columbia Journalism Review's Campaign Desk Author All the President’s Spin Moderator Harvey Shapiro Senior Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor ------------------------------------------------- Jobs, Growth, and Confidence: Which Candidate Has The Winning Economic Policy? Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Featuring Robert Kuttner Founder, The American Prospect Business Week Columnist Raymond J. Keating Chief Economist Small Business Survival Committee Moderator Harvey Shapiro Senior Contributing Editor, Institutional Investor ------------------------------------------------- Terrorism and Iraq: What is the nature of the relationship? Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 Featuring Walter Russell Mead Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Author, Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America’s Grand Strategy in a World at Risk Stephen Hayes Senior Writer, Weekly Standard Author, The Connection Moderator Richard Murphy Director of Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations ------------------------------------------------- Health Care Costs: Is there a cure for our feverish medical inflation? Tuesday, May 11th, 2004 Featuring Frank R. Lichtenberg Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business, Columbia University Robert Berenson, M.D. Senior Fellow, Urban Institute Katharine Greider Author, The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers Sue Blevins President, Institute for Health Freedom Moderator Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D. Former Lt. Governor of New York State, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute ------------------------------------------------- Taking Spending Discretion Away From Our Elected Officials: A desirable and practical way of ensuring fiscal responsibility? Tuesday, April 13th, 2004 Featuring Bret Schundler Chairman Empower the People Former Mayor Jersey City, NJ Frank Mauro Executive Director Fiscal Policy Institute Moderator Anthony P. Coles Former New York City Deputy Mayor ------------------------------------------------- Trial Lawyers & Tort Law: Citizen Protectors or Legal Pariahs? Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004 Featuring John Stossel Anchor 20/20, Author Give Me a Break Michael Rustad Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, Author In Defense of Tort Law Moderator William Tucker New York Sun Columnist, author of play Founding Fathers ------------------------------------------------- The Korean Conundrum: Should the U.S. use the carrot, the stick, or the community of nations to address this threat? Tuesday, February 10th, 2004 Frank Gaffney President, Center for Security Policy Joel S. Wit Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Doug Bandow Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Moderator Elizabeth Economy Council on Foreign Relations ------------------------------------------------- Mayor Bloomberg’s Midterm Report Card Tuesday, January 13th, 2004 Mitchell Moss Director of the Taub Urban Research Center, New York University E.J. McMahon Senior Fellow for Tax and Budgetary Studies, Manhattan Institute Seymour Fliegel President Center for Educational Innovation-Public Education Association (CEI-PEA) Herman Badillo Former Chairman, CUNY, Former Deputy Mayor, City of New York Moderator Brian Lehrer WNYC ------------------------------------------------- One Nation Under God? Where to separate Church from State Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 6:30 P.M. Prompt Barry W. Lynn Executive Director Americans United for Separation of Church and State Kevin J. Hasson President The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Moderator Norman Dorsen New York University Law School ------------------------------------------------- Media Bias: Is the News Fair and Balanced & Fit to Print? Thursday, November 6th, 2003 William McGowan Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Author of Coloring The News Joe Conason Columnist for the New York Observer and Salon, Author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth Moderator Terence Smith Media Correspondent, PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ------------------------------------------------- The American Empire: Effectively Imposing Liberty or Doomed Overreaching? Tuesday, October 14, 2003 Dinesh D'Souza Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Author of New York Times Best Seller What's So Great About America? Jonathan Schell Fellow at the Nation Institute, Author of The Unconquerable World Ted Galen Carpenter Vice President Cato Institute, Author of Peace & Freedom Moderator Lawrence J. Korb Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress ------------------------------------------------- Palestinian Statehood: Roadmap to Peace or Road to Nowhere? Wednesday, June 11, 2003 6:30 p.m. (Reception to follow) Marc Ginsburg Former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco Roni Milo Former Mayor of Tel Aviv, former candidate for Israeli Prime Minister Shibley Telhami Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland Lawrence J. Korb Senior Fellow and Director, National Security Studies Council on Foreign Relations ------------------------------------------------- After Iraq: The Future of the Middle East Tuesday, May 13, 2003 6:30 p.m. (Reception to follow) The Graduate Center The City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue (Corner of 34th Street & 5th Avenue) New York b>Shlomo Ben-Ami Former Foreign Minister, Israel Raghida Dergham New York Correspondent, Al-Hayat Newspaper Evgueni K. Novikov Director, International Terrorism Program, Jamestown Foundation John O'Sullivan Editor in Chief, United Press International & Editor at Large, National Review Robert A. George Editorial Writer, New York Post ------------------------------------------------- Civil Liberties During Wartime: Is Freedom a Casualty in the War on Terror? Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Timothy Lynch Director, Cato Institute Project on Criminal Justice Heather Mac Donald Fellow, Manhattan Institute & author, Are Cops Racist? Nadine Strossen President, American Civil Liberties Union Ruth Wedgwood Law Professor, Yale University & Johns Hopkins ------------------------------------------------- Medicare: Prescription for Disaster? Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:30 P.M. (Reception to follow) John Goodman President, National Center for Policy Analysis; Author, Patient Power Marilyn Moon Senior Fellow, Urban Institute; Founding Director, Public Policy Institute of the AARP ------------------------------------------------- USA vs. Europe: Who's Right About the War on Terror? February 13, 2003 Richard Perle Chairman, Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense; Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute The Rt Hon Michael Howard QC MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, United Kingdom; Chairman, Atlantic Partnership ------------------------------------------------- Immigration: Who Gets In? Wednesday, January 15, 2003 Featuring Donald J. Boudreaux Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University Peter Brimelow Author, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster & Columnist, CBS Market Watch Michelle Malkin Author, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores & Syndicated Columnist, Creators Syndicate Frank Sharry Executive Director, National Immigration Forum ------------------------------------------------- Annual Holiday Party Thursday, December 5, 2002 Mo Rocca, Senior Political Correspondent, The Daily Show Robert George, Associate Editorial Page Editor, New York Post ------------------------------------------------- Bioterrorism: How Great are the Risks? Thursday, November 14, 2002 Richard Preston Author, The Demon in the Freezer & The Hot Zone Dr. Elizabeth Whelan President, American Council on Science & Health Robert Goldberg Director, Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress ------------------------------------------------- Heading for a Crash? Are Stocks and the Economy Over-Leveraged? October 2, 2002 Lawrence Kudlow, Co-Host, CNBC’s Kudlow & Cramer & CEO, Kudlow & Co. LLC Robert R. Prechter, Jr., Author, Conquer the Crash & CEO, Elliott Wave International James B. Rogers, CEO, Rogers Holdings & Author, Investment Biker ------------------------------------------------- Intervention: How Should American Power Be Used Overseas? September 12, 2002 Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute & Syndicated Columnist, Copley News Service Richard C. Holbrooke, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Hulsman, Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation Michael A. Ledeen, Resident Scholar in the Freedom Chair, American Enterprise Institute Matthew Bishop, New York Bureau Chief, The Economist ------------------------------------------------- Christopher Buckley Presentation June 06, 2002 Author & Humorist ------------------------------------------------- One America? Ethnic Conflict in 2002 May 14, 2002 Roy Innis, National Chairman & CEO, Congress of Racial Equality Hugh B. Price, President & CEO, National Urban League Tamar Jacoby, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute & Author, Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration ------------------------------------------------- Is Our Environmental Future Secure? April 9, 2002 Fred Krupp Executive Director, Environmental Defense Bjørn Lomborg Author, The Skeptical Environmentalist & Associate Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark Nicholas Wade Science Reporter, The New York Times ------------------------------------------------- America’s Schools: Tough Choices March 6, 2002 Rudy Crew, Former Chancellor, New York City School System & Executive Director, Stupski Family Foundation Chester E. Finn, Jr., John M. Olin Fellow, Manhattan Institute & Former Assistant Secretary for Research and Improvement & Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education Thomas W. Carroll, President, Empire Foundation ------------------------------------------------- Social Security: Time to Privatize? February 7, 2002 José Piñera, Former Labor & Social Security Minister, Chile & President, International Center for Pension Reform Senator Paul Simon, Former United States Senator & Director, Public Policy Institute, Carbondale, Illinois Tim Ferguson, Editor, Forbes Global ------------------------------------------------- Is Iraq Next? January 8, 2002 Richard Butler, Former Executive Chairman, United Nations Special Commission & Diplomat-in Residence, Council on Foreign Relations William Kristol, Editor & Publisher, The Weekly Standard John Fund, Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal ------------------------------------------------- Understanding Saudi Arabia in the Twenty-First Century December 6, 2001 Jonathan Aitken, Former Member of Parliament & Former Defense Minister, Great Britain Doug Bandow, Syndicated Columnist, Copley News Service Simon Henderson, Author, After King Fahd: Succession in Saudi Arabia & Consultant, Saudi Strategies.com Richard Murphy, Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia & Senior Fellow, Middle East Council on Foreign Relations Richard Betts, Professor, Columbia University ------------------------------------------------- P. J. O’Rourke Presentation November 1, 2001 Author & Humorist ------------------------------------------------- Wartime Economic Policy October 9, 2001 Stephen Moore, President, Club for Growth Gene Sperling, Former National Economic Advisor & Director of the National Economic Council & Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution James K. Glassman, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute |
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