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Year Date Name Title
Fall 2007 11/19/2007 Lou Dobbs Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit
Fall 2007 11/15/2007 Rami Khouri Baghdad, Tehran, Beirut and Jerusalem- A Critical Arab View of America's Middle East Policies
Fall 2007 10/18/2007 Joan Blades The Motherhood Manifesto
Fall 2007 10/15/2007 Kitty Dukakis, Michael Dukakis, and Larry Tye Shock
Fall 2007 10/04/2007 Charlie Savage Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Fall 2007 09/17/2007 Garrison Keillor Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Story
Fall 2007 09/13/2007 John W. Dean Broken Government: How Republicans Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Fall 2007 05/21/2007 Paul Hawken and Steve Curwood Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being, and Why No One Saw it Coming
Fall 2007 05/03/2007 Paul Biddinger, Lisa Stone, and Stephen Smith Disaster Preparedness in Massachusetts: Ready? Or Not?
Fall 2007 04/30/2007 Edward Albee, Rick Lombardo, Karen MacDonald, and Ed Siegel Does Theatre Have a Future? The Players Look Forward…
Fall 2007 04/22/2007 Richard S. Lindzen Is Global Warming a Cause for Alarm?
Fall 2007 03/22/2007 Marshall Goldman and Uri Ra'anan Power, Petroleum, and Flawed Succession: The Roots and Impact of Putin's Russia
Fall 2007 03/15/2007 Ali S. Asani, Mona Eltahawy, and Jeff Jacoby You Don't Know US: Voices from the Moderate Muslim Majority
Fall 2006 12/1/2006 Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg, and Linda Wertheimer 2006 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award
Fall 2006 11/9/2006 Meizhu Lui, Rebecca Adamson, and Betsey Leondar-Wright The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide
Fall 2006 10/22/2006 Dr. Yaron Brook Democracy vs. Victory: Why the "Forward Strategy of Freedom" Had to Fail
Fall 2006 10/12/2006 Ethan Gutman, Hiawatha Bray, and John Jaw The Great Firewall of China
Fall 2006 9/28/2006 John Darnton The Darwin Conspiracy
Fall 2006 9/12/2006 Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J. The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Execution
Fall 2006 9/11/2006 Sarah Chayes The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
Spring 2006 5/11/2006 Dr. Thomas Payzant The Role of Public Education and the Common Good
Spring 2006 5/4/2006 George Q. Daley, Dan W. Brock, Rudolf Jaenisch Stem Cells: Where Will the Road Lead?
Spring 2006 4/27/2006 Margaret Morganroth Gullette Aged by Culture
Spring 2006 4/6/2006 Maggie Gallagher The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
Spring 2006 3/30/2006 Thomas B. Wilner, P. Salin Willett, Gita Gutierrez Guantanamo Bay: Who are the Detainees and Why Does the U.S. Continue to Hold Them?
Spring 2006 3/23/2006 Paul Cellucci The Importance of Public Diplomacy in the Post Cold War, Post 9/11 World
Fall 2005 12/6/2005 Nam Pham, Paul Ton That, and Trin Nguyen Finding a Voice in a New Homeland
Fall 2005 11/17/2005 Gloria White-Hammond, Liz Walker, and Linda Mason Women to Women: A Journey to Darfur
Fall 2005 11/3/2005 Barbara Anderson and Jim Braude Rebels With a Cause: Proposition 2 1/2 Twenty-five Years Later
Fall 2005 10/24/2005 Kip Tiernan, Grace Paley, and Betty Burkes Peaceable Women: The Power of 1,000, The Power of One
Fall 2005 10/2/2005 Eli Pariser Reclaiming Democracy
Fall 2005 9/21/2005 Dan Kennedy and Jay Rosen Who's Talking
Spring 2005 6/21/2005 Howie Carr Both Sides of the Street
Spring 2005 5/4/2005 Lester C. Thurow Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do To Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity
Spring 2005 4/20/2005 Sarah Vowell Assassination Vacation
Spring 2005 4/12/2005 Martha Burk Cult of Power: Sex Discriminations in America and What Ca Be Done About It
Spring 2005 4/4/2005 Mike Hoffman, Paul Rieckhoff, Scott Allen Miller and Jay Harris Breaking Ranks
Spring 2005 3/9/2005 Richard Bradley Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World's Most Powerful University
Fall 2004 11/29/2004 Cokie Roberts Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raise Our Nation
Fall 2004 11/16/2004 Alfred DeMaria, Jr., M.D., Leonard C. Marcus, V.M.D., M.D. and Thomas L. Treadwell, M.D. Disease Du Jour: What Might Be Next?
Fall 2004 11/3/2004 Peter Blute and Barney Frank One Day Later: Insights on the 2004 Presidential Race
Fall 2004 10/27/2004 Tina Santi Flaherty What Jackie Taught Us: Lessons for the Remarkable Life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis
Fall 2004 10/25/2004 Seymore Hersh and Jay Harris Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Fall 2004 10/19/2004 Derrick Ashong, Kiki Breevlife, Scherazade King, and Geoff Ward Hip-Hop Politics
Fall 2004 10/7/2004 Ron Ferguson, Ellen Guiney, Ted Landsmark, and Robert B. Schwartz 30 Years After School Busing: Where Do We Go Next
Fall 2004 9/29/2004 Jerry Burke, Sean Flynn, and Rod Fritz Policing Baghdad
Fall 2004 9/22/2004 Howard Bryant, Anita Diamant, Susan Orlean, and Paul Grogan The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston
Spring 2004 6/15/2004 Marie St. Fleur, Regine A. Jackson, and Marc Prou The Haitian Diaspora in Boston
Spring 2004 5/18/2004 Diane Ravitch The Language Police
Spring 2004 5/11/2004 Lucian Leape, M.D., Connie Crowley Ganser, Linda Kenney, and John A. Fromson, M.D. Medical Errors and Patient Safety
Spring 2004 3/30/2004 Scott Ritter and Listo Fisher Frontier Justice
Spring 2004 3/16/2004 Ellen Band, Wendy Kaminer, Victor H. Kazanjian, Jr., and Dan Kennedy Prayer in Public
Spring 2004 2/10/2004 Richard J. McNally Remembering Trauma
Spring 2004 1/28/2004 Dr. Jean Flatley McGuire and Harold Cox The Politics of Sex, Drugs, and HIV/AIDS
Spring 2004 1/22/2004 Orlando Bagwell Citizen Kin
Fall 2003 12/3/2003 Darrel Crate, Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, and Dominick Ianno The Elephant in the State House: Republican Success in "Democratic" Massachusetts
Fall 2003 11/17/2003 Juiliette Kayyem Give Me Liberty or Give Me Safety: Balancing Civil Rights and National Security
Fall 2003 11/11/2003 Arianna Huffington Pigs and the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Fall 2003 10/21/2003 Peter Steinfels A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America
Fall 2003 10/20/2003 Meredith Bergmann, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Andrea Moore Kerr, and Celeste Walker Remembering the Ladies: Boston Celebrates a New Women's Memorial
Fall 2003 10/9/2003 Brian MacQuarrie Up Close and Personal: Embedded Reporter Gets Inside the War In Iraq
Fall 2003 10/1/2003 Mickey Edwards, Elaine Hagopian, and Jeffrey Taliaferro What in the World Should We Do?: U.S. Foreign Policy Today and Tomorrow
Spring 2003 6/4/2003 Madge Kaplan and Physicians of the Massachusetts Medical Society See You in Court: Medical Malpractice and Health Care in Massachusetts
Spring 2003 5/13/2003 Darren G. Brookes Innocence Lost: Child Abuse, Pornography, and the Internet
Spring 2003 4/6/2003 Leonard Peikoff American Versus Americans
Spring 2003 3/11/2003
Los Trabajadores: A Film Screening and Discussion About Immigrant Labor in the U.S.
Spring 2003 1/28/2003 Justice Albie Sachs, Margaret Burnham, and Paul Tucker After Apartheid: Symbols of Progress and Challenges Yet to be Faced in the New South Africa
Spring 1953 1/25/2003 Reverand John S. Sexton Religion in Education
Fall 2002 11/19/2002 Congressman Barney Frank The 2002 Election Results: What Do They Mean?
Fall 2002 11/7/2002 Paul Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gould, Bob Zelnick, and Christopher Lydon Afghanistan and Freedom of the Press in the United States
Fall 2002 10/24/2002 The Rev. Anne C. Fowler, Nicki Nichols Gamble, Frances X. Hogan, Melissa Kogut, Madeline McComish, Barbara Thorp, and Laura Chasin Fundamental Difference/ Constructive Relationships
Fall 2002 10/10/2002 Glenn Loury and James Hirsh Debating Reparations for Slavery
Fall 2002 10/8/2002 Julie and Hillary Goodridge, Gina Smith and Heidi Norton, Ed Balmelli and Michael J. Horgan, and Mary Bonauto What at the Heart of Marriage? Same-Sex Couples and Legal Rights
Fall 2002 9/26/2002 Paul Solman Ethically Challenged: Can Capitalism Survive Its Own Excesses?
Spring 2002 5/14/2002 Jeff Jacoby The Case for Capital Punishment
Spring 2002 5/2/2002 Patricia McGovern Is Massachusetts State Government Broken?
Spring 2002 4/23/2002 Noam Chomsky The Emerging Framework of World Power
Spring 2002 4/10/2002 James Peyser and Ted Sizer Putting Students and Schools to the Test: The Pros and Cons of MCAS
Spring 2002 3/6/2002 Jarrett Barrios, Rita Uong, and Dianne Wilkerson The Emerging Majority
Spring 2002 2/12/2002 Alan Dershowitz and Harvey Silvergate Debating Civil Liberties Post 9/11
Fall 2001 12/10/2001 Stephen Jay Gould Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
Fall 2001 11/29/2001 Peter Schumann What the World Needs Now: A Manifesto for the Slow World (A Fiddle Sermon)
Fall 2001 11/15/2001 Michael Greco and Niki Tsongas The Creative Economy Initiative: The Role of the Arts and Culture in New England's Economic Competitiveness
Fall 2001 11/6/2001 Andrea Ayvazian and Beverly Daniel Tatum Navigating Friendships Across Racial Divides
Fall 2001 11/1/2001 Patricia Smith Word Unleashed: Performance Poetry and the New Freedom of Expression
Fall 2001 10/11/2001 Daniel Robb and Roderick L. Ireland Trapped by Trouble: Violent Teens, Juvenile Justice, and Rehabilitation
Fall 2001 9/29/2001 Carol Bellamy, Felton Earls, Rodrigo Guerrero, Jane Schaller, and Deborah Prothrow-Stith Children's Right to Non-Violence: Commemorating the United Nations' Decade for a Culture of Peace
Spring 2001 6/5/2001 Chip Berlet Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
Spring 2001 5/8/2001 Facilitated by Steve Johnson Boston Chefs and Local Farmers: A Conversation
Spring 2001 4/29/2001 Leonard Peikoff The One in the Many: How to Create It and Why
Spring 2001 4/26/2001 James K. Glassman Is Government Strangling the New Economy?
Spring 2001 4/11/2001 Barbara Neely Blanche Strikes a Chord: Challenging Stereotypes and Promoting the Concerns of Working Class People
Spring 2001 3/22/2001 Peter Neufeld Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
Spring 2001 3/7/2001 Charlene Gilbert Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers
Spring 2001 2/13/2001 Robert B. Reich The Future of Success
Fall 2000 12/13/2000 Jane Holtz Kay Boston: Lost and Living in the Auto Age
Fall 2000 11/29/2000 Willaim Shutkin The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
Fall 2000 11/15/2000 Congressman Barney Frank Election 2000: A Review and Forecast
Fall 2000 10/4/2000 Liilian Glickman and Joyce Williams The Aging Odyssey: Elders in the New Millennium
Fall 2000 9/26/2000 Dr. Jean Hardisty Kitchen Table Backlash: The Anti-Feminist Women's Movement
Spring 2000 6/13/2000 Tina Packer and John Whitney Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management
Spring 2000 5/23/2000 Jean Kilbourne Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising
Spring 2000 4/25/2000 Panel of Teenage Representatives from "End School Violence Now" Organization End School Violence Now
Spring 2000 3/28/2000 Robert F. Duvall The Campaign for Economic Literacy
Spring 2000 3/16/2000 Gordon Fellman Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival
Spring 2000 2/16/2000 James W. Loewen Lies Across American: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Spring 2000 2/3/2000 George McCully Philanthropy in America: Does it Matter?
Fall 1999 12/8/1999 Lorraine Roses The Search for Black Boston's Lost Cultural Riches
Fall 1999 11/17/1999 Paul Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gould, and Sima Wali Afghanistan Between Three Worlds
Fall 1999 11/3/1999 Marvin Kalb The New News: Changing Journalistic Standards
Fall 1999 10/27/1999 Richard Landes Y0K, Y1K, Y2K: Apocalyptic Dates in Western History
Fall 1999 10/19/1999 John Bonifaz, Scott Douglas, and Scott Harshbarger Campaign Finance as a Civil Rights Issue
Fall 1999 9/29/1999 David Fromkin Kosovo Crossing: American Ideals Meet Reality on the Balkans Battlefields
Spring 1999 4/28/1999 Carol M. Bronwer An Address by the Administration of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Spring 1999 3/25/1999 Harvey A. Silvergate, ESQ. Are Hate-Speech Codes and Hate-Crime Legislation Constitutional, Moral, and Effective?
Spring 1999 3/14/1999 Chrisena Coleman Wise Words and Anecdotes: A Celebration of African-American Women
Spring 1999 3/7/1999 Sidney Jay Zabludoff Nazi Gold and the Swiss Banks: The Loss of European Jewish Assets and the Holocaust
Spring 1999 3/4/1999 Jack Blum Unresolved Cold War Legacies of Corrupt Foreign Policy
Spring 1999 2/4/1999 Kevin Phillips Anglo-America: The Domination of World Politics and Transformation of Global Culture
Fall 1998 11/22/1998 Leonard Peikoff A Picture is Not an Argument
Fall 1998 11/19/1998 Wendy Kaminer The Culture of Censorship
Fall 1998 11/11/1998 Carol M. Bronwer An Address by the Administration of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Fall 1998 11/8/1998 Congressman John Lewis 1998 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award
Fall 1998 10/7/1998 Cleve Jones Tales From the Quilt
Spring 1998 5/14/1998 J. Brian Atwood Why Should the United States Stat Engaged in Bosnia?
Spring 1998 5/7/1998 Gina Kolata Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead
Spring 1998 4/26/1998 Admiral Stansfield Turner Caging the Nuclear Genie: An American Challenge for Global Security
Spring 1998 4/16/1998 CEO Gary Hirshberger and Dr. Margaret Mellon A Consumer's Right to Know: Are Our Food Standards Clear Enough?
Spring 1998 4/5/1998 Lani Guinier Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice
Fall 1997 11/20/1997 Mark Edmundson, Lewis Lapham, Earl Shorris, and John Silber Humanities Lost and Found
Fall 1997 11/16/1997 Christopher Arterton, Nicolaus Mills, Patricia Schroeder, and Pam Solo Civic Renewal: Exerting Out Better Selves
Fall 1997 11/13/1997 Cornel West Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America
Fall 1997 11/9/1997 Robert Pinsky American Poetry and American Life: An Evening with the American Poet Laureate
Fall 1997 10/30/1997 Blanche McCrary Boyd, John Casey, Martha Minow, and John Edgar Wideman Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice
Fall 1997 10/26/1997 Keith Lockhart Why I Sign in the Shower: A Talk with Keith Lockhart
Fall 1997 9/28/1997 Terry Gross 1997 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award
Fall 1997 9/21/1997 Dr. Susan Love Women's Health: It's Time to Tell the Truth
Spring 1997 4/24/1997 Lester C. Thurow Leaving Ourselves a Future: Recommendations for Cutting the Deficit
Spring 1997 4/17/1997 E.D. Hirsch, Jr. The Schools We Need
Spring 1997 4/6/1997 Faye Wattleton Working Women, Working Wives, Working Mothers, Working Lives
Spring 1997 4/3/1997 Robert B. Reich Taking the Long View: American Jobs in the 21st Century
Spring 1997 3/27/1997 Rebecca Walker To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism
Spring 1997 3/19/1997 David Brudnoy Life in Not a Rehearsal: AIDS- and After
Spring 1997 3/13/1997 William Bratton Community Policing: Making America's Cities Livable Again
Fall 1996 11/7/1996 Robert Richardson Emerson: the Mind of Fire
Fall 1996 11/3/1996 Marion Hammer Freedom! Can We Save It?
Fall 1996 10/24/1996 Ralph Reed The Christian Coalitions View of Election 1996
Fall 1996 10/3/1996 Alan Brinkley, John Kenneth Galbraith, Lewis Lapham, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Lessons from the Past: What Citizens Need to Know for the Future of Democracy
Fall 1996 9/29/1996 Geoffrey Fieger The Morality of Physician-Assisted Suicide
Fall 1996 9/26/1996 Edward C. Johnson Fidelity Investments: Managing a Growing Company
Spring 1996 5/16/1996 Patricia Smith The Changing American Agenda: Where Have Family Values Gone?
Spring 1996 4/28/1996 Robert Gates An Insider's Look at the Cold War
Spring 1996 4/21/1996 Leonard Peikoff A Philosopher Analyzes the O.J. Verdict
Spring 1996 4/18/1996 Elizabeth Drew Showdown in Washington D.C.
Spring 1996 4/11/1996 Alan Dershowitz America's Justice System After O.J.
Spring 1996 3/31/1996 Deval Patrick Current Challenges in Civil Rights
Spring 1996 3/20/1996 Marian Wright Edelman Priorities for America's Children
Fall 1995 11/16/1995 Tony Brown Black Lies, White Lies
Fall 1995 10-Nov Norman Mailer Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man
Fall 1995 11/9/1995 Henry Becton, Peggy Charren, Hilton Kramer, Lewis Lapham, and Sheldon Richman Public Television: Do We Need It Anymore?
Fall 1995 11/2/1995 David Broder, Julie Johnson, and Charles McDowell Election 1996: Let the Games Begin
Fall 1995 10/22/1995 Lynne Cheney Telling the Truth
Fall 1995 10/19/1995 Eva Fogelman Conscience and Courage
Fall 1995 10/15/1995 Thomas Payzant Boston Public Schools: Priorities for Our Children's Future
Fall 1995 10/12/1995 Paul Tsongas and Lowell Weicker Does American Need a Third Party?
Spring 1995 5/18/1995 Hanan Ashrawi The Side of Peace: A Personal Account
Spring 1995 4/27/1995 Sarah Brady The Tough Road to the Brady Law: Why the Fight isn't Over Yet
Spring 1995 4/23/1995 Leonard Peikoff What to do About Crime
Spring 1995 4/6/1995 Henry Cisneros Will Rebuilding Cities Rebuild Families
Spring 1995 3/23/1995 Charles Murray The Bell Curve
Spring 1995 3/19/1995 Barney Frank, David Hall, and Dianne Wilkerson Civil Rights in the 104th Congress: What Will it Mean for Boston?
Spring 1995 3/16/1995 Stephen Adler, Morris Dees, Joseph Balliro and Rudolph Kass American Justice on Trial: Who Chooses the Jury
Fall 1994 11/17/1994 Janet Reno The Attorney General on the Issues
Fall 1994 11/9/1994 Rosalynn Carter Helping Yourself Help Others
Fall 1994 11/3/1994 Red Auerbach An Evening with Red Auerbach
Fall 1994 10/27/1994 Diana Eck Encountering God
Fall 1994 10/13/1994 Joan R. MacArthur, Mark Crispin Miller, and Earl Shorris The Overselling of America
Fall 1994 10/6/1994 Derrick Bell Confronting Authority
Fall 1994 10/2/1994 Kevin Phillips Arrogant Capital
Spring 1994 5/25/1994 James Carroll The Boston Busing Crisis Twenty Years Later: A Novelist's View
Spring 1994 5/12/1994 Gloria Steinem Moving Beyond Words
Spring 1994 4/28/1994 Ted Turner 1994 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award
Spring 1994 4/21/1994 Ralph Martin and Robert C. Rufo Violence in the City: Ending the Cycle
Spring 1994 4/14/1994 Kate Michelman Promoting Prevention: A Pro-Choice Agenda for the 1990s
Spring 1994 4/10/1994 Muhamed Sacirbey Bringing an End to Bosnia's Civil War
Spring 1994 3/24/1994 Bennett Cohen, Sharon Cohen, and Arnold Hiatt How to do Well by Doing Good
Spring 1994 3/10/1994 Robert MacNeil An Evening with Robert MacNeil
Fall 1993 11/7/1993 Leonard Peikoff Madness and Modernism
Fall 1993 10/28/1993 Joe Hardiman The Future of Capital Markets: Continuing Evolution, Unprecedented Opportunity
Fall 1993 10/24/1993 Roger Rosenblatt Why Journalism Fails to Tell the News
Fall 1993 10/21/1993 Christopher Hitchens, Lewis Lapham, Martin F. Nolan, and Les Payne The Media: Too Aggressive or Too Docile?
Fall 1993 10/17/1993 Robin Casarjian Forgiveness: A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart
Fall 1993 10/14/1993 The Reverand Al Sharpton Racial Equality in America: How Do We Keep the Wheels of Progress Rolling?
Fall 1993 10/7/1993 Stephen L. Carter Religion, Politics, and the Constitution in the 1990's
Spring 1993 5/25/1993 Alice Walker An Evening With Alice Walker
Spring 1993 5/19/1993 Gary Hart The Good Flight: The Education of an American Reformer
Spring 1993 4/18/1993 David Gergen The Clinton Administration: The First 100 Days
Spring 1993 4/15/1993 Majorie Clapprood and Judy Jarvis Talk Radio: Political Platform for the People
Spring 1993 8-Apr Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J. and Helen Fein Why Remember: Lessons the Holocaust Can Teach Us Today
Spring 1993 3/25/1993 Nigle Hamilton History and the Kennedys
Spring 1993 3/18/1993 Kevin Phillips Change in American: The Middle Class Reaches the Boiling Point
Spring 1993 3/14/1993 Nat Hentoff Is Any For of Speech So Harmful, So Disgusting, So Dangerous, or So Offensive That It Should Not Be Spoken or Published?
Fall 1992 12/3/1992 Charlayne Hunter- Gault In my Place
Fall 1992 11/1/1992 Edward M. Kennedy, Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. and Corine Williams Byrd How to Make College Affordable
Fall 1992 10/29/1992 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Lewis Lapham Voices in Black and White: Contributors to Harper's Magazine Explore Issues of Race
Fall 1992 10/25/1992 Mike Barnicle and David Brudnoy Can You Believe This? Barnicle and Brudnoy Skewer the News
Fall 1992 10/15/1992 David S. Nelson 1992 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award
Fall 1992 10/1/1992 Sissela Bok Discordant Family Values
Spring 1992 4/30/1992 Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Doris Kearns Goodwin, and James Carroll Mortal Friends: A Conversation about Irish Politics in Boston
Spring 1992 4/26/1992 Leonard Peikoff The Future Implications of Certain Present Trends at Home and Abroad
Spring 1992 4/23/1992 Robert Kuttner and Robert Lawrence Should Japan Be Allowed to Buy the U.S.?
Spring 1992 4/16/1992 David Blumenthal and John Larkin Thompson Why Are my Health Insurance Premiums so High? (Any What Can Be Done About Them?)
Spring 1992 4/12/1992 Julie Belaga and Ann Lewis Women, Power, and Politics
Spring 1992 4/5/1992 Albert Gore Earth in the Balance: The Environmental Crisis for Our Nation and Our World
Spring 1992 4/2/1992 Cokie Roberts The Business of Electing a President: The 1992 Campaign
Spring 1992 3/23/1992 Zalman Shoval From Confrontation to Negotiation: An Insider's View of the Middle East Peace Talks
Fall 1991 11/21/1991 Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities: American Schools, Still Separate, Still Unequal…
Fall 1991 11/17/1991 J. Larry Brown, Robert Greenstein and Leo Panetta Childhood Hunger in America: Our Future at Risk
Fall 1991 11/14/1991 Charles McDowell, Julie Johnson, and Jack Nelson The 1992 Presidential Campaign: A Preview
Fall 1991 11/3/1991 Nannerl Keohane and Sherry Penney Beyond Political Correctness: Dealing with Diversity on College Campuses
Fall 1991 10/24/1991 Tim O'Brien Vietnam: Immoral War, Impossible Victory
Fall 1991 9/29/1991 Louis Sullivan, M.D. Health Care Reform and Biomedical Research: Containing Costs and Improving Quality
Spring 1991 5/5/1991 Rosa L. Parks 1991 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award
Spring 1991 4/28/1991 Kevin Phillips Leadership in America: The Politics of Rich and Poor
Spring 1991 4/25/1991 Daniel Yergin Oil, Money, and Power
Spring 1991 4/18/1991 Jonathan Mann AIDS: A Global Perspective
Spring 1991 4/7/1991 Jean Kilbourne Under the Influence: The Pushing of Alcohol via Advertising
Spring 1991 3/28/1991 David Duke An Agenda for America: David Duke on the Issues
Fall 1990 12/2/1990 Leonard Peikoff Philosophy and the Real World Out There
Fall 1990 11/18/1990 Richard Lapchick, Norm Van Lier, Holly Metcalf and Luis Tiant Sports: Friend or Foe to the Minority Community
Fall 1990 11/15/1990 Michael Barrett and Theodore Sizer How Much School is Enough?
Fall 1990 11/8/1990 Howard Nemerov An Evening with America's Poet Laureate
Fall 1990 10/28/1990 Rosabeth Moss Kanter The Changing Face of Business: American Corporations in the 1990s and Beyond
Fall 1990 10/18/1990 Nora Dunn and David Ross Freedom of Expression and Censorship in Arts
Spring 1990 5/20/1990 Fang, Kennedy, Linkm Neier, and Schell 1990 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award
Spring 1990 5/3/1990 Katherine Fanning The News in the '90s
Spring 1990 4/26/1990 Randall Hayes How to Save the Rainforests
Spring 1990 4/12/1990 David Broder The Politics in the 1990s: A Question of Leadership
Spring 1990 3/29/1990 Rita Klimova The Gentle Revolution of Czechoslovakia
Spring 1990 3/25/1990 Bette Bao Lord and Winston Lord China: Great Walls and Open Doors
Fall 1989 11/30/1989 Elizabeth Keeley Sexual Abuse of Children: A Growing Epidemic or A Growing Awareness?
Fall 1989 11/12/1989 Henry Kendall and Claudine Schneider Global Warming: What Can We Do About the Greenhouse Effect?
Fall 1989 11/9/1989 J.Jackson Walter Keeping America's Heritage Alive
Fall 1989 11/5/1989 Herbert Benson How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress: The Relaxation Response
Fall 1989 10/19/1989 Pei Minxin, Shen Tong, Din Xueliang, and Yasheng Huang The Future of the Democratic Reform Movement in China
Fall 1989 10/15/1989 Paul Szep Satire: The Ungentle Art
Spring 1989 5/18/1989 Neil Sheehan Vietnam: How Could this War have Happened?
Spring 1989 5/14/1989 American Civil Liberties Union First Amendment Award and Address
Spring 1989 5/4/1989 Philip Johnston and Marc Roberts What Do We Do When the Money Runs Out: State Financing of Extraordinary Health Care
Spring 1989 4/23/1989 Leonard Peikoff Certainty and Happiness: Achieving Success in Thought and Action
Spring 1989 4/16/1989 Mitchell Kapor What's So Personal About Personal Computers?
Spring 1989 4/13/1989 John Chancellor Kinder and Gentler or Tougher and Stronger?
Spring 1989 4/6/1989 Ellen Hume and Linda Wertheimer Covering the Presidential Campaign: Lessons for 1992
Spring 1989 3/30/1989 Mamphela Ramphele What the U.S. Should Know About South Africa
Fall 1988 11/17/1988 Liz Carpenter Surviving Half a Century of American Politics
Fall 1988 11/10/1988 Barney Frank and Warren Rudman Election 88: A Review and Forecast
Fall 1988 11/6/1988 Philip Agee Dirty Work: The CIA in Central American and the World
Fall 1988 11/4/1988 Mubarak Awad The Palestinian Struggle for Human Rights
Fall 1988 10/30/1988 Robert Reich and Barry Blueston Beyond Reaganomics: America's Role in the New Global Economy
Fall 1988 10/27/1988 Arthur Liman Contragate: The Story Behind the Scenes
Fall 1988 10/20/1988 Eileen McNamara and Hiller Zobel Who Judges the Judges?
Fall 1988 10/16/1988 Ann F. Lewis Inside the Democratic Campaign: Jackson Action and Party Politics
Fall 1988 10/13/1988 Gloria T. Hull and Peggy McIntosh Education for a More Inclusive Society
Fall 1988 9/25/1988 Michael Harrington A Progressive Agenda for Equity and Justice
Spring 1988 5/17/1988 John McLaughlin The View from Washington: A National and International Review
Spring 1988 5/15/1988 Pete Seeger First Amendment Award and Address
Spring 1988 5/1/1988 Archibald Cox John William Ward Memorial Lecture: Government Ethics and Public Trust
Spring 1988 4/24/1988 Leonard Peikoff Why Should One Act on Principle?
Spring 1988 4/21/1988 Amanda Cross and Robert Parker The Art of Mystery: Master Sleuths Unmasked
Spring 1988 4/14/1988 Geraldine Ferraro After Reagan: What Next?
Spring 1988 3/31/1988 C. Everett Koop Education and AIDS: Fighting a Killer
Fall 1987 11/15/1987 Norman Cousins Taming of Nations
Fall 1987 11/8/1987 I. F. Stone A Conservation with I.F. Stone
Fall 1987 11/1/1987 Henry Hampton Eyes on the Prize: Setting the Course for America's Racial Future
Fall 1987 10/29/1987 Veronica DeNegri and Robert J. Lifton Hope and Healing in a World of Horror
Fall 1987 10/23/1987 Marian Wright Edelman Unprotected and At Risk: The State of Childhood in America
Fall 1987 10/15/1987 Molly Yard 1990's Politics: Flooding the Ticket with Women
Fall 1987 9/27/1987 Barney Frank A Democratic Agenda for 1988 and Beyond
Spring 1987 5/10/1987 Seamus Heaney The Sound of Poetry
Spring 1987 5/7/1987 Nicholas Daniloff First Amendment Award and Lecture
Spring 1987 4/30/1987 Alexander Haig Developing a National Agenda: Issues for the 1990's
Spring 1987 4/26/1987 Leonard Peikoff My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir
Spring 1987 4/23/1987 Laurence Tribe Bicentennial Blues: To Praise the Constitution or to Bury It?
Spring 1987 4/5/1987 Carolyn Compton, Thomas Regan, and Andrew Rowan Crisis in the Lab: Animals in Medical Research
Fall 1986 11/16/1986 David R. Gergan, Arthur Miller, and Martin F. Nolan Lowell Lecture: The Rights and Responsibilities of a Free Press
Fall 1986 11/13/1986 Reverand Pat Robertson An Agenda for the Nineties
Fall 1986 11/9/1986 Bernard Aronson and John Kerry Nicaragua: Contras, Sandinistas, and US Aid
Fall 1986 10/26/1986 Morris B. Abram and Nathaniel R. Jones Affirmative Action and Equal Rights
Fall 1986 10/16/1986 William Webster Issues of Integrity in Law Enforcement
Fall 1986 10/5/1986 Renny Golden, Comr. Alan Nelson, Ellen Yaroshenfsky Sanctuary: Moral Imperatives and Illegal Acts
Fall 1986 9/28/1986 John Kenneth Galbraith and Franco Modigliani A Conversation on the Economy
Fall 1986 9/20/1986 President Corazon Aquino
Spring 1986 4/20/1986 Leonard Peikoff Religion vs. America
Spring 1986 4/17/1986 Daniel Ellsberg and John Pike Star Wars II: Opposing SDI
Spring 1986 4/13/1986 J. Larry Brown and Rep. Mickey Leland Hungry… in America!
Spring 1986 4/10/1986 Lloyd Cutler, Elliot Richardson, and Louis Menard, III Government Gridlock: Is Government Responsive Enough for the 21st Century?
Spring 1986 4/3/1986 Theodore Sizer and Sara Lawerence Lightfoot Improving America's High Schools
Spring 1986 3/27/1986 Marian Blum, Ellen Galinsky, Arnold Hiatt, and Margaret McKenna The Day Care Puzzle
Fall 1985 11/7/1985 Paul Starr The Health Care Dilemma: Cost and Availability
Fall 1985 11/3/1985 Eleanor Holmes Norton The National Crisis of Teenage Pregnancy
Fall 1985 10/24/1985 Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson The Strategic Defense Initiative: Star Wars I
Fall 1985 10/20/1985 Frances Moore Lappe and Deborah Toler World Hunger: Lesson of Ethiopia
Fall 1985 10/10/1985 C. Everett Koop and Richard Daynard Smoking: The Medical and Legal Implications
Fall 1985 9/29/1985 Stephen Schiff and Chuck Kraemer Movies in America
Fall 1985 9/22/1985 Howard Baker A Political and Legislative Outlook for the '80s
Spring 1985 4/28/1985 Thomas Winship First Amendment Award and Address
Spring 1985 4/25/1985 Harvey Cox, Anthony Podesta, and Cal Thomas Religion in Politics
Spring 1985 4/21/1985 Lester C. Thurow An Economic Outlook for the Eighties
Spring 1985 4/18/1985 Benjamin Hooks and John Kaplan Justice for All?
Spring 1985 4/14/1985 Leonard Peikoff Medicine: The Death of a Profession
Spring 1985 3/31/1985 Tom Wicker The Reagan Presidency II: The First Hundred Days
Fall 1984 10/28/1984 William Colby and John Stockwell The CIA: America's Secret Foreign Policy
Fall 1984 10/21/1984 Richard Restak The Human Brain
Fall 1984 10/18/1984 John Silber and Ray Bonner U.S. Policy in Central America
Fall 1984 10/4/1984 Daivd Halberstam The Effect of Sports On American Society
Fall 1984 9/30/1984 Helen Caldicott The Threat of Nuclear War
Fall 1984 9/23/1984 Bella Abzug and Robert Novak Challenges for the Next Administration
Spring 1984 4/29/1984 TBA First Amendment Award and Address
Spring 1984 4/15/1984 Leonard Peikoff The American School: Why Johnny Can't Think
Spring 1984 4/8/1984 Andrew Young The Role of City Government in the 1980s
Spring 1984 4/1/1984 Douglas Fraser Labor and Business Ethics
Spring 1984 3/25/1984 Seymour Hersh The Price of Power: Journalism and Foreign Policy
Fall 1983 11/6/1983 Sissela Bok Secrecy and Lying in Public
Fall 1983 10/30/1983 Ann Compton Media Ethics: The Power of the Press
Fall 1983 10/23/1983 Ralph Nader and Richard Neely Ethics in American Law: Consumer Activism and Judicial Activism
Fall 1983 10/16/1983 Harold Washington Blacks in American Politics
Fall 1983 10/2/1983 Barney Frank and Patrick Buchanan An Overview of Ethics for the Eighties
Spring 1983 5/1/1983 TBA First Amendment Award and Address
Spring 1983 4/24/1983 Leonard Peikoff Assault From the Ivory Tower: The Professor's War Against America
Spring 1983 4/17/1983 John Kenneth Galbraith Reagan and his Economists Reviewed
Spring 1983 4/10/1983 I. F. Stone A Maverick's View of the Nation and the World
Spring 1983 3/27/1983 Reverand Jesse L. Jackson Education: Foundation for Democracy
Fall 1982 11/7/1982 Doris Kearns- Goodwin, Jonathan Moor, and James C. Thomson Jr. The Meaning of the 1982 Election : A Post Mortem
Fall 1982 10/31/1982 Dr. Carl Kaysen The Federal Government and Science and Technology
Fall 1982 10/24/1982 Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer The Federal Government and Business and the Economy
Fall 1982 10/17/1982 Ellen Feingold and Lewis H. Spence The Federal Government and Social and Services and Social Responsibility
Fall 1982 10/3/1982 Ramsey Clark The Federal Government and Politics and Law
Spring 1982 5/9/1982 Maya Angelou First Amendment Award and Address: The Responsibility to Speak for Freedom's Sake
Spring 1982 4/25/1982 Ayn Rand TBA
Spring 1982 4/18/1982 Andrew Young TBA
Spring 1982 4/4/1982 Daniel Yankelovich Do American Still Believe in Apple Pie and Mother?
Spring 1982 2/28/1982 Wilbur J. Cohen and Carolyn L. Weaver Social Security: A System Under Pressure
Fall 1981 11/1/1981 Joseph R. Stantion and Phillip G. Stubblefield The Abortion Controversy: A Collision of Rights
Fall 1981 10/25/1981 John Kenneth Galbraith The Conservative Revolt
Fall 1981 10/18/1981 Alexander Ginzberg The Continuing Struggle for Human Rights
Fall 1981 10/11/1981 Ellen Goodman The Changing Roles of Men and Women- Can We Have it All?
Fall 1981 10/4/1981 Barney Frank and Cal Thomas The New Right, The New Left: Their Place in Government and Politics
Spring 1981 5/3/1981 William Proxmire Waste in Government and What We Can Do About This
Spring 1981 4/26/1981 Ayn Rand TBA
Spring 1981 4/12/1981 Harvey G. Cox, Jr. Are Traditional Religions Meeting Today's Needs
Spring 1981 4/5/1981 Doris Kearns Goodwin Women in a Man's World
Spring 1981 3/29/1981 Norman Lear First Amendment Award and Lecture
Fall 1980 11/2/1980 Robert F. Delaney Terrorism as a Tactic
Fall 1980 10/26/1980 Barry Commoner and Daniel Yergin Energy and Environment: A Conflict of Out Time
Fall 1980 10/19/1980 Dick Gregory Are Minorities Really Powerless?
Fall 1980 10/12/1980 Isaac Asimov The Disasters That Threaten Our World
Fall 1980 10/5/1980 John P. Roche and William Safire What Will the Outcome of the Election Have on Foreign and Domestic Policies
Spring 1980 5/4/1980 Vance Packard Scientific Explosion: Public Perils and Ethical Crises
Spring 1980 4/27/1980 Joseph M. Jordan, Samuel E. Zoll, and Barney Frank What Can Be Done About Crime in the Street
Spring 1980 4/20/1980 Fred Graham and Arthur R. Miller The Right to Privacy vs. Free Press
Spring 1980 4/13/1980 William F. Buckley, Jr. Some of the Problems of Freedom
Fall 1979 11/4/1979 Midge Costanza Are Women Still Being Judged by a Double Standard
Fall 1979 10/28/1979 Nicholas Johnson Welcome to Sex and Violence on TV: Do You Know What You Children Are Watching Tonight?
Fall 1979 10/21/1979 Ralph Nader and Samuel Schwartz Energy Outlook
Fall 1979 10/14/1979 John Kenneth Galbraith Must We Have Inflation or Recession or Both
Fall 1979 10/7/1979 David Halberstam The Power of the Media
Spring 1979 4/29/1979 Phyllis Schlafly The Myth of the Equal Rights Amendment
Spring 1979 4/22/1979 Walter Laqueur Terrorism
Spring 1979 4/15/1979 Donald Woods Emancipation and Human Dignity: The South African Experience
Spring 1979 4/8/1979 Sandra Keifer vs. Clamshell Alliance Is Nuclear Energy Safe?
Spring 1979 4/1/1979 Barney Frank vs. William Rusher Gay Rights
Spring 1979 3/25/1979 Ivor Richard Multinational Corporations and How to Control Them
Fall 1978 10/29/1978 Alan Dershowitz Laws and Social Policy for Human Rights
Fall 1978 10/22/1978 Elmo Zumwalt Foreign Policy
Fall 1978 10/15/1978 Maggie Kuhn Freedom for Older Americans
Fall 1978 10/8/1978 Paul Duke Washington Week in Review
Spring 1978 4/30/1978 Uri Ra'anan The Soviet and the Middle East
Spring 1978 4/23/1978 Theodore Bikel Dissent
Spring 1978 4/16/1978 Ayn Rand TBA
Spring 1978 4/9/1978 Dr. Thomas Szasz Myth of Psychotherapy
Spring 1978 4/2/1978 Edgar Berman Warning! Your Doctor May be Hazardous To Your Health
Fall 1977 10/30/1977 I. F. Stone A Maverick's View of Washington Politics
Fall 1977 10/23/1977 Bella Abzug Politics 1977
Fall 1977 10/16/1977 Barry Commoner The Energy Crisis: Who Pays For It?
Fall 1977 10/9/1977 Larry Flynt Pornography, An Inalienable Right?
Fall 1977 10/2/1977 Roger Mudd Presidential Politics and Television
Spring 1977 5/1/1977 Elizabeth Holtman The Role of Congress in America's Future
Spring 1977 4/24/1977 Robert Coles Ethical Conflict In American Children
Spring 1977 4/17/1977 James Reston Ninety Days Into the New Administration
Spring 1977 4/10/1977 Ayn Rand TBA
Spring 1977 4/3/1977 Kenneth Keniston, Frank E. Manuel, B. F. Skinner The Future: Through a Glass Darkly
Fall 1976 11/7/1976 Tom Wolfe When Will the 70's Begin
Fall 1976 10/31/1976 Reverand Jesse L. Jackson Give the People a Vision
Fall 1976 10/24/1976 Elie Wiesel An Evening with Elie Wiesel
Fall 1976 10/17/1976 George W. Ball Diplomacy For A Crowded World: An American Foreign Policy
Fall 1976 10/10/1976 Tom Wicker The Nation: The 1976 Election
Spring 1976 5/2/1976 Isaac Asimov The Science Fiction Writer as Prophet i.e. Solar Energy
Spring 1976 4/25/1976 Elliot Janeway Where Do We Go from Here? The Economy of the Future
Spring 1976 4/18/1976 Bruno Bettelheim The Sex Revolution and the Future of the Family
Spring 1976 4/11/1976 Ayn Rand TBA
Spring 1976 4/4/1976 Max Lerner and Reid Buckley The 1976 Election: Two Views- Liberal and Conservative
Fall 1975 11/2/1975 Nora Ephron Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women in the Age of Liberation
Fall 1975 10/26/1975 R. Buckminister Fuller The New Reality
Fall 1975 10/12/1975 Jimmy Breslin The Illusion of Power
Fall 1975 10/10/1975 Daniel Schorr The CIA and the Invasion of Privacy
Fall 1975 10/5/1975 Angela Davis Organized Struggle Against Racial and Political Repression
Spring 1975 5/4/1975 Florynce Kennedy The Alliance of the Alienated: Blacks, Women and Other Minorities
Spring 1975 4/27/1975 Dr. Rollo May Creativity and Death
Spring 1975 4/20/1975 Dr. Harvey G. Cox Religion in America- The Next 200 Years
Spring 1975 4/13/1975 William Loeb The Conservative View
Spring 1975 4/6/1975 William P. Homans, Jr. Human Rights- A Challenge for Everyone
Fall 1974 11/3/1974 Germaine Greer Population Control: The New Fascism
Fall 1974 10/27/1974 Ralph Nader Corporate Responsibility and Consumer Protection
Fall 1974 10/20/1974 Ayn Rand Egalitarianism and Inflation
Fall 1974