September 27

Ivory Tower Overhaul: How to Fix American Higher Ed

Featuring Charles Miller, Chairman, the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education; Christopher Nelson, President, St. John’s College; Anya Kamenetz, Author, Generation Debt; Neal McCluskey, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; and moderated by Doug Lederman, Editor, Inside Higher Ed.

September 21

Medicare Meets Mephistopheles

Featuring the author, David A. Hyman, Cato Institute Adjunct Scholar and Professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Illinois; with comments by Ted Marmor, Professor, Yale University, and author of The Politics of Medicare; and Robin Wilson, Visiting Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University.

September 20

In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns

Featuring the author, John G. Geer, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University; with comments by Jeremy Mayer, George Mason University; and moderated by John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.

September 8

The War on Terrorism Five Years after 9/11

Featuring a presentation by Robert Pape, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, and author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.

Followed by a discussion of U.S. strategy in the war on terrorism with Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center; Flynt Leverett, New America Foundation; Dana Priest, Washington Post; Rand Beers, The National Security Network; and Christopher Preble, Cato Institute.