Fall

1. • Jonathan Panter
   • Program on Freedom and Free Socities at Cornell University
   • Title: Syria's Violent Spring: What a Cornell Undergrad Saw While Studying Abroad
   • Date & time: 5 pm on Wednesday, August 31
   • Location: 391 Statler Hall

   • Mr. Panter's observations on life in Syria appeared in the pages of the Wall Street Journal

     Facebook page for Mr. Panter's talk

   

2. • Hillel Fradkin
   • Director, Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World and Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
   • Title: Ten Years On: the Arab Spring and the Death of Bin Laden
   • Date & time: 7:30 pm on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
   • Location: Guerlac Room, A. D. White House

   • Facebook page for Dr. Fradkin's talk.

   

3. • Kevin Hassett
   • Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies American Enterprise Institute
   • Title: Spend Less, Owe Less, Grow the Economy
   • Date & time: 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 27, 2011
   • Location: G71 Martha Van Rensselaer West
   • Dr. Hassett's talk is sponsored by Jack Miller Center's Constitution Day Initiative.
   • Facebook page for Dr. Hassett's talk

   

4. • Andrew Roberts
   • Award-winning, internationally acclaimed British historian and biographer, journalist, and public intellectual
   • Title: Why Hitler Lost
   • Date & time: 6:00 pm on Thursday, November 17, 2011
   • Location: G10 Biotechnology Building

   • Facebook page for Dr. Roberts' talk

     Dr. Roberts was interviewed by WHCU 870’s Dave Vieser. Audio courtesy of WHCU 870.

   

Spring

1. • Douglas Holtz-Eakin
   • President, American Action Forum
   • Title: Surviving to 2016: Policy Challenges in the United States
   • Date & time: 4:30 pm on Thursday, February 17th, 2011
   • Location: G71 Martha van Rensselaer Hall (West Wing)

   • Coverage of the talk by the Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell Chronicle, and Cornell Review.

     Dr. Holtz-Eakin was interviewed by WHCU 870’s Dave Vieser. Audio courtesy of WHCU 870.

   

2. • Claudia Rosett
   • Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
   • Title: From Axis of Evil to Partners in Proliferation: North Korea and Iran
   • Date & time: 4:30 pm on Monday, February 28, 2011
   • Location: 110 Rockefeller Hall

   

3. • Bettany Hughes
   • Historian, author, broadcaster
   • Title: Socrates and the Hemlock Cup
   • Date & time: 4:30 pm on Monday, March 7, 2011
   • Location: Kaufmann Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall

   

4. • Kathryn Milne
   • Miller-Veritas Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Freedom and Free Societies, and Visiting Assistant Professor, History
   • Title: Officium Imperatoris: The Importance of Picking One's Battles in the Middle Republic
   • Date & time: 4:30 pm on Monday, March 14, 2011
   • Location: 122 Goldwin Smith Hall

   

5. • Virginia Postrel
   • Libertarian author and member of the Board of Directors, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
   • Title: Consumer Choice in a World of Exploding Product Variety: In Defense of Too Much Choice.
   • Date & time: 7:30 pm on Wednesday, March 30, 2011
   • Location: G71 Martha van Rensselaer Hall

   

6. • Yuval Levin
   • Founding editor, National Affairs
   • Title: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Understanding the Health Care Debate
   • Date & time: 7:30 pm on Monday, April 11, 2011
   • Location: Kaufmann Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall

   

7. • Thomas Szasz
   • Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center and The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
   • Title: The Insanity Defense: The Case for Abolition
   • Date & time: 7:00 pm on Wednesday, April 13
   • Location: 228 Malott Hall

   

8. • Michael Barone
   • Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
   • Title: American Politics 2011 and Beyond
   • Date & time: 7:30 pm on Wednesday, April 27
   • Location: 228 Malott Hall

   

9. • Sinan Unur
   • Program on Freedom and Free Societies at Cornell University

   • Title: The Future of Health Care Reform, a panel discussion.

     This event is part of the Cornell University Health Care Symposium organized as part of the third annual Sick in America series

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   • Date & time: 5:30 pm on Monday, May 2nd
   • Location: 251 Malott Hall