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January 17, 2008 | Los Angeles, CA
Manhattan Institute Forum
Title: Policing Skid Row: Is the Safer Cities Initiative the Right Approach?
Introductory: James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine
University
Panel One: Saving Skid Row from Squalor, or Criminalizing Homelessness?
Speakers: Heather Mac Donald, Contributing Editor, City Journal,
Andrew Smith, Commander, Los Angeles Police Department,
Mark A. R. Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs,
Carol Wilkins, Director, Intergovernmental Policy, Corporation for Supportive Housing
Moderator: Brian T. Kennedy, President, Claremont Institute
Panel Two: Lessons of Skid Row: Implications for Public Space and Order
Speakers: George Kelling, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Gretchen Dykstra, Former President, Times Square Business Improvement District
Estela Lopez, Executive Director, Central City East Association
Torie Osborn, Senior Advisor to Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Mayor of the City of Los Angeles
Moderator: Brian T. Kennedy, President, Claremont Institute
Keynote Address: William J. Bratton, Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V
November 13, 2007 | New York City
The Urban Innovator Award Luncheon
Honoring: Jeb Bush, Former Governor, State of Florida
Introduction by: Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
November 1, 2007 | New York City
Center for Medical Progress Forum
Speakers: Richard A. Epstein, J.D. Visiting Scholar, Manhattan
Institute's Center for Legal Policy James Parker Hall Distinguished
Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Peter and Kirstin
Bedford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Theodore R. Marmor,
Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management, Yale
School of Management Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Yale Law School
November 1, 2007 | New York City
Center for Rethinking Development Forum
Topic: Thinking Big for New York City
Keynote: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Speakers: Amanda M. Burden, Chair, City Planning Commission, Kenneth
T. Jackson, Jacque Barzun Professor in History, and the Social Sciences,
Columbia University, Felix G. Rohatyn, President, Rohatyn Associates,
LLC
Part I | Part II
October 16, 2007 | Albany, NY
Empire Center for New York State Policy Forum
Topic: Taylor Made: The Cost and Consequences of New York's Public-Sector
Labor Laws
Speaker: Hon. Jerome Lefkowitz, Chairman, NYS Public Employment
Relations Board
Keynote: Hon. Steve Levy, County Executive, Suffolk County
October 3, 2007 | New York City
Center for American University Forum
Topic: Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher
Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s
Students
Luncheon Speaker: Mark Steyn, Author of the Best-Selling
Book America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Master of Ceremonies: John Leo, Editor, Minding the Campus.com
Opening
Session | Panel
I | Panel
II part 1 | Panel
II part 2
 Lunch:
Mark Steyn | Panel
III
September 25, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Lecture
Topic: Christians, Jews & Israel
Speaker: James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan Professor of Public
Policy, Pepperdine University
Introduction by: Martin Peretz, Editor-In-Chief, The New
Republic
June 20, 2007 | New York City
The Third Annual Hayek Lecture
Topic: Hayek on Spontaneous Order and the Mirage of Social Justice
Speaker: John Tomasi, Associate Professor, Political
Science & Director, Political Theory Project; Brown University
Introduction by: James Piereson, Senior Fellow,
Director, Center for the American University
June 6, 2007 | New York City
Center for Rethinking Development & Empire Center for New York State
Policy Forum
Topic: Can Upstate Cities Save Themselves?
Speakers: John Norquist, President & CEO, Congress for the New
Urbanism, Hon. Robert Duffy, Mayor, City of Rochester
Panelists: Rolf Pendall, Associate Professor, Cornell University,
Richard Deitz, Senior Economist, Buffalo Branch, Federal Reserve
Bank, Kathryn Foster, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo,
SUNY, Paul Hagstrom, Associate Professor, Hamilton College
Moderator: Julia Vitullo-Martin, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
for Policy Research, Director, Center for Rethinking Development
Luncheon Keynote: Daniel Gundersen, Upstate Chair, Empire State
Development Corp.
Introduction: Edmund J. McMahon, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
for Policy Research, Director, Empire Center for New York State Policy
May 8, 2007 | New York City
Seventh Annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner
Honoring: Hon. Edward I. Koch, 105th Mayor of the City of
New York & K. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Corporation
Introduction: Senator Al D'Amato and Roger Ailes
Part
I: Weismann,
Rubenstein | Part
II: D'Amato
Part
III: Koch |
Part
IV: Ailes |
Part
V: Murdoch,
Mone
April 19, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Power of the Vote
Speakers: Douglas E. Schoen, Founding and Former Partner,
Penn, Schoen, and Berlandy
April 12, 2007 | New York City
Center for the American University
Topic: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America
Introduction: Roger Hertog, Vice Chairman Emeritus,
AllianceBernstein L.P.
Speaker: Martin Kramer, Wexler Fromer Fellow,
Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Senior Fellow,
Shalem Center, Jerusalem; Senior Fellow, Olin Institute, Harvard
University
January 29, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The
Legacy of Milton Friedman
Economic Theory: William A. Niskanen, President Reagan's
Council of Economic Advisers;
International Impact: José Piñera, CATO Institute/International
Center for Pension Reform;
Social Policy: Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal
Luncheon Address: John Stossel, ABC News
Mone |
Murdoch |
Niskanen |
Murdoch,
Pinera | Murdoch,
Gigot | Panel
Discussion | Q
for the Panel | Stossel |
Q
and A
Mone |
Murdoch |
Niskanen |
Murdoch,
Pinera | Murdoch,
Gigot | Panel
Discussion | Q
for the Panel | Stossel |
Q
and A
November 28, 2006 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families
in a Post-Marital Age
Speaker: Kay S. Hymowitz, William E. Simon Fellow,
Manhattan Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal
October 24, 2006 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Wriston Lecture
Topic: Europe and the United States: Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: George Weigel, Senior Fellow, Ethics
and Public Policy Center
October 12, 2006 | New York City
Center for Medical Progress Forum
Topic: The
Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care by Dr.
David Gratzer Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Introduction by Rodney Nichols, Trustee,
Manhattan Institute, and Former President & CEO, New
York Academy of Sciences
September 26, 2006 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: THE PAST IS PROLOGUE: WHAT'S NEXT FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION
Speakers: Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor,
The City University of New York
September 7, 2006 | New York City
Center for Policing Terrorism
Topic: 9/11 FIVE YEARS AFTER First Preventers: The Role of Law Enforcement in the War on Terror
Welcome: Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute
Opening Remarks: Phil Mudd, Associate Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigations
Panel I: The Homegrown Terror Threat and the Importance of
First Prevention Policing
MODERATOR:
Tim Connors, Director, Center for Policing Terrorism, Manhattan Institute
PANELISTS:
R.P. Eddy, Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism, Executive Director, Center for Policing Terrorism, Manhattan Institute
James A. Marks, Major General, United States Army (Retired); Senior Vice President Intelligence and Language Center, McNeil Technologies
Judith Miller, Investigative Reporter, The New York Times (1977-2005); Author with Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, Simon & Schuster, 2001
Panel II: Police Executive Panel, Best Practices in Fighting
the War on Terror
MODERATOR:
John Miller, Assistant Director, Office of Public Affairs, US Federal Bureau of Investigation
PANELISTS:
William Bratton, Chief, Los Angeles, CA, Police Department
Mark Delaney, Superintendent, Massachusetts State Police
Dean Esserman, Chief, Providence, RI, Police Department
Rick Fuentes, Superintendent, New Jersey State Police
Sandra Hutchens, Division Chief, Office of Homeland Security, County of Los Angeles
John Timoney, Chief, Miami Police Department
Keynote Address: The U.S. Federal Government's International
and Domestic Contributions to the War on Terror The
Honorable Alberto R. Gonzalesz, Attorney General,
U.S. Department of Justice
Introduction: Dietrich Weismann, Chairman, Manhattan Institute
June 21, 2006 | New York City
Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Title: Moving Men Into the Mainstream: The Next Steps in Urban
Reform
Panel I: Black Men Left Behind? Reflections on Current
Research Moderator: John McWhorter, Manhattan
Institute
Panelists: Larry Mead, New York University,
Abby Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute, Hillard
Pouncy, Princeton University, Ron Mincy,
Columbia University
Panel II: From Recidivism to Redemption: Ending the Cycle
of Incarceration Moderator: Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune
Panelists: Martin Horn, NYC Department of Corrections,
Chauncey Parker, NY State Criminal Justice,
Vicki Lopez Lukis, Florida Ex-Offender Task
Force, Jeremy Travis, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Amachi
Program
Panel III: Putting Policy to the Test
Moderator: Howard Husock, Manhattan Institute
Panelists: Peter Cove, American Works, Fred
Davie, Public/Private Ventures, Brent Orrell,
U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services, Mindy Tarlow,
Center for Employment Opportunities
July 17, 2006 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Current Events
Introduction: Dietrich Weismann, Chairman, Manhattan
Institute
Speaker: Senator John McCain
June 15, 2006 | New York City
Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: Creative Approaches to Preserving Affordable Housing
Introduction: Hon. Stephen Goldsmith Director, Innovations
in American Government Awards Program, Daniel Paul, Professor
of Government, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Lisa
Mallory-Hodge Managing Director, Policy and Consulting, Fannie
Mae Foundation
Speakers: Brad Lander, Director, Pratt Center for Community
Development, Mercedes Marquez, General Manager, Los Angeles
Housing Department
June 8, 2006 | Washington D.C.
Center for Medical Progress Forum
Topic: Prescription for Progress: The Critical Path for Drug Development
Keynote Speaker: Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D.
Panelists: Jeffrey Cossman, Gualberto Ruano, Robert McBurney, Ph.D., Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Janet Woodcock, M.D., Meryl Comer, Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., Michael Weber, M.D., Steve Usdin
June 6, 2006 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Title: How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (Cato Institute,
2006)
Author: Richard A. Epstein
May 18, 2006 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Breakfast
Title: Medical Malpractice Awards, Insurance, and Negligence:
Which Are Related
Author: Alexander Tabarrok, Amanda Agan
May 4, 2006 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Title: The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education
Gap for American Children (Houghton Mufflins, 2006)
Author: E. D. Hirsch
April 25, 2006 | New York City
Sixth Annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner
Honoring: Rudolph W. Giuliani, 107th Mayor of the City of
New York & Tom Wolfe, Author, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Introduction By:David Brooks
April 12, 2006 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Title: In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (AEI
Press, 2006)
Author: Dr. Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar, American
Enterprise Institute
April 3, 2006 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: Restoring Democracy: The Federal Consent Decree Fairness
Act
Speaker: Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
January 12, 2006 | New York City
Center For Race and Ethnicity Book Forum
Title: Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Gotham Books, 2006)
Author: John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow
January 10, 2006 | New York City
Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Title: Why Are Skilled Cities Getting More Skilled?
Author: Edward L. Glaeser, Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government; and Director, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
December 7, 2005 | New York
City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Hon. John R. Bolton, United States Ambassador and
Permanent Representative to the United Nations
November 29, 2005 | New York City
2005 Wriston Lecture
Speaker: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
& Dir., James Madison Program, Princeton University
November 29, 2005 | New York City
September 22, 2005 | New York
City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: His new book, Flat Tax Revolution (Regnery Publishing,
July 2005)
Speaker: Steve Forbes, President & CEO of Forbes Inc. & Editor-in-Chief,
Forbes magazine; and Author, Flat Tax Revolution (Regnery Publishing,
July 2005)
September 20, 2005 | New York
City
Empire Center For New York State Policy Luncheon Forum
Topic: Breaking the Budget in New York State: What's At Stake
in November's Referendum
Keynote Speaker: Hon. Hugh L. Carey (invited)
Panelists: Hon. Edward I. Koch, Dall Forsythe, Diana Fortuna
Moderator: E. J. McMahon
Panel
1: Intro:
E.J. McMahon | Hon.
Hugh L. Carey & John S. Dyson | Peter
Goldmark
Panel 2: Intro:
E.J. McMahon | Hon.
Edward I. Koch | Dall
Forsythe | Diana
Fortuna | Q
& A
Panel
1: Intro:
E.J. McMahon | Hon.
Hugh L. Carey & John S. Dyson | Peter
Goldmark
Panel 2: Intro:
E.J. McMahon | Hon.
Edward I. Koch | Dall
Forsythe | Diana
Fortuna | Q
& A
September 15, 2005 | New York
City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: Weekly Standard's 10-Year Anniversary Book
Speakers: William Kristol, Fred Barnes, John Podhoretz, Joseph
Bottum (Invited)
Intro.: Stephen Goldsmith
September 12, 2005 | New York
City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Hon. Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts
Intro.: Stephen Goldsmith
May 19, 2005 | New York City
First Annual F.A. Hayek Lecture
Topic: Islam and Democracy
Speaker: Dr. Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute
April 8, 2005 | Washington, DC
Manhattan Institute Americans for Tax Reform Event
Topic: Immigration Reform: The Conservative Case for Change
Panelists: Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax
Reform; Ed Goeas, President and CEO, The Tarrance Group;
John Gay, Co-Chair, Essential Worker Immigration Coalition
and Vice President of governmental affairs of the American Hotel
& Lodging Association
Moderator: Tamar Jacoby, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
April 4, 2005 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Tax Policy and the Future of Social Security Reform
Speaker: Dr. Edward C. Prescott, Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize
in Economic Sciences; W. P. Carey Chair of Economics, W. P. Carey
School of Business, Arizona State University
Intro.: Dr. Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University
March 28, 2005 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Evening Symposium
Topic: Interrogating Terror Suspects: A Debate — Did the Administration’s
Decision that the Geneva Convention Do Not Apply to Captured Terror
Suspects Lead to Prisoner Abuse?
Panelists: John D. Hutson, Dean, Franklin Pierce Law
Center (Concord, NH) & Former Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy;
Heather Mac Donald, John M. Olin Fellow, Manhattan Institute
& Contributing Editor, City Journal
Moderator: Brian Lehrer, Host, Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC-AM
January 27, 2005 | New York
City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: "The CFE Decision and the Future of the City’s Schools"
Panelists: Jay Greene, Ross Sandler, Charles Brecher, Sol Stern
October 19, 2004 | New York
City
Center For Civic Innovation 2004 Social Entrepreneurship Award
Dinner
Master of Ceremonies: Howard Husock, Director of Case Studies,
Kennedy School, Harvard University & Contributor Editor, City
Journal
Featured Speaker: George McDonald, Founder and President,
The Doe Fund
October 13, 2004 | New York City
Manhattan Institute—25th Anniversary Dinner
Featured Speaker: Tom Wolfe
September 30, 2004 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Lecture on Public Policy
Topic: Can Muslim Nations Acquire Liberal Democracies?
Speaker: James Q. Wilson, Professor of Management & Public
Policy, Graduate School of Management at UCLA
Intro.: Max Boot, Senior Fellow, National Security Studies,
Council on Foreign Relations
September 21, 2004 | New York City
Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: Whither Welfare Reform? Lessons from the Wisconsin Experience
Speakers: Jason DeParle, Author, American Dream: Three Women,
Ten Kids and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare (Viking, 2004); Lawrence
Mead, Author, Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin
(Princeton University Press, 2004); and Jason Turner, Former
Commissioner, Dept. of Social Services, Human Resources Administration,
New York City
Introduction
| Jason
Deparle | Lawrence
Mead | Jason
Turner | Q
& A
Introduction
| Jason
Deparle | Lawrence
Mead | Jason
Turner | Q
& A
September 23, 2003 | Washington,
DC
Center For Legal Policy Presentation
Presentation of Trial
Lawyers Inc.: A Report on the Lawsuit Industry in America, 2003
(Published by MI)
Presented by: Hon. Richard Thornburgh, Former Attorney General
of the United States
Mr.
Copland | Mr.
Thornburgh Part 1 | Mr.
Thornburgh Part 2
Mr.
Sessions Part 1 | Mr.
Sessions Part 2 | Mr.
Olson
Mr.
Copland | Mr.
Thornburgh Part 1 | Mr.
Thornburgh Part 2
Mr.
Sessions Part 1 | Mr.
Sessions Part 2 | Mr.
Olson
November 15, 2001 | New York
City
City Journal Conference
Topic: "Rebuilding New York: New York City's Future After
September 11th"
Participants: Myron Magnet, Editor, City Journal (Moderator); Steve
Malanga, Brian Anderson,
Franck Lohsen McCrery & Alexander Stoddart, Heather Mac Donald,
Daniel Pipes.
Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
December 13, 2000 | New York City
New
York City Conference on School Choice
Co-Sponsored with the Office of New York City Mayor Rudolph
W. Giuliani
Speakers: Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New York City;
Lawrence Mone, President, MI; Hon. Frank Keating,
Governor of Oklahoma; Hon. Gary Johnson, Governor of New
Mexico; Hon. John Norquist, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
Prof. Robert Reich, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Hon.
Bret Schundler, Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey; Hon. William
Weld, Former Governor of Massachusetts
Introduction
and Opening Remarks | Panel
1 | Panel
2 | The
Honorable John Norquist | The
Honorable Bret Schundler | Panel
3 | Afternoon
Remarks | Panel
4
September 12, 2000 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: "The Mental Illness System: How It Broke and How to Fix
It"
Speaker: Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, President, Treatment Advocacy
Center, Bethesda, Maryland
July 12, 2000 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Lecture Forum
Topic: "Core Curriculum at CUNY?"
Speakers: Herman Badillo, Chairman, Board of Trustees, City
University of New York; Dr. Bernard Sohmer, Chair, University
Faculty Senate, City University of New York
April 13, 2000 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: "The University of the Future"
Speaker: Dennis Keller, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer,
DeVry, Inc. & Keller Graduate School of Management, Inc. (Chicago,
Illinois)
March 15, 2000 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Lecture Forum
Speaker: Ward Connerly, Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute;
Member, University of California Board of Regents & Author,
Creating
Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences (Encounter Books, 2000)
March 7, 2000 | New York City
Center For Legal Policy Lecture Forum
Topic: "Managed
Care Liability"
Speaker: Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
February 23, 2000 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Breakfast Forum
Topic: "A Free-Market Agenda for High Tech"
Speaker: James K. Glassman, Journalist & American Enterprise
Fellow
February 15, 2000 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Symposium and Reception
Speaker: Peter Huber, MI Senior Fellow & Author, Hard
Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists - A Conservative
Manifesto (Basic Books, 2000)
Commentator: Bill McKibben, Author, The
End of Nature (Doubleday, 1989)
July 6, 1999 | New York City
Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Speaker: Hon. Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida.
June 21, 1999 | New York
City
Manhattan Institute Seminar
Topic: "The New Urban Paradigm"
Keynote Address: Tom Wolfe
Speakers, introduced by Myron Magnet: Peter Reinharz, Heather
Mac Donald, Sol Stern
Question/Answer Session with above speakers
Luncheon Address: Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New
York City, introduced by Roger Hertog
Tom
Wolfe | Peter
Reinharz | Heather
Mac Donald | Sol
Stern | Question/Answer
Session | Hon.
Rudolph W. Giuliani
Tom
Wolfe | Peter
Reinharz | Heather
Mac Donald | Sol
Stern | Question/Answer
Session | Hon.
Rudolph W. Giuliani
December 2, 1998 | New York
City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: "Innovation and Opportunity in a Digital Age"
Speaker: William Henry Gates, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft
Corporation
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