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April 22, 2008 | New York City
Eighth Annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner
Honoring: The Honorable Herman Badillo, Former U.S. Congressman, Deputy Mayor of New York City, and Bronx Borough President &
Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
Introduction: Rudolph Giuliani, Henry Kissinger
April 21, 2008 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Vice President Dick Cheney
Introduction: Lawrence J. Mone, President, Manhattan Institute
April 10, 2008 | New York City
Center for Energy and Environment Forum
Title: Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Speaker: Bjorn Lomborg, Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Introduction: Max Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for Energy Policy and the Environment
March 25, 2008 | New York City
Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Title: Can Mayoral Control Fix Broken Urban School Districts?
Keynote: Joel I. Klein, Chancellor, Department of Education, New York City
Panel Discussion I: Lessons from Other Cities
Panelists: Thomas Payzant, Former Superintendent, Boston Public Schools; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Michelle Rhee, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools;
Paul G. Vallas, Superintendent, Recovery School District, New Orleans;
Kenneth K. Wong, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair for Education Policy,
Director, Urban Education Policy Program, Brown University
Moderator: Marcus Winters, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Panel Discussion II: Mayoral Control Reauthorization in New York City
Panelists: David C. Bloomfield, Associate Professor & Program Head, Educational
Leadership, Brooklyn College;
Seymour Fliegel, President, Center for Educational Innovation-Public Education Association;
Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education, New York University;
Joe Williams, Executive Director, Democrats for Education Reform
Moderator: David M. Steiner, Klara & Larry Silverstein Dean, School of Education, Hunter College, CUNY
Intro | Panel I | Panel II
January 17, 2008 | Los Angeles, CA
Manhattan Institute Forum
Title: Policing Skid Row: Is the Safer Cities Initiative the Right Approach?
Introduction: 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
Introduction | Panel I
| Panel II
| Keynote Address
November 29, 2007 | New York City
William E. Simon Lecture
Topic: Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship
Speakers: David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor
of History at The Graduate Center of the City University of New
York
Introduction: Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research,
Manhattan Institute, Director, Social Entrepreneurship Initiative

November 28, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Black-White IQ Gap
Speakers: James R. Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political
Science, University of Otago, New Zealand, Charles Murray, Ph.
D., W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom, American Enterprise
Institute
Moderator: Jane Waldfogel, Professor of Social Work and Public
Affairs, Columbia University School of Social Work

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 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

October 18, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Wriston Lecture
Topic: Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul
Speaker: Leon R. Kass, Hertog Fellow, American Enterprise
Institute, Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of
Chicago
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 Todays
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
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
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
February 15, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Health Care Symposium
Topic: Health Care: Does the Free Market Apply?
Participants: Dr. David Gratzer, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute,
and Daniel Callahan, Senior Fellow, Hastings Center
Moderator: Brian Lehrer, Host, W-NYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show"

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 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
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
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
February 14, 2005 | New York City
Center for Medical Progress Forum
Topic: Updating and Personalizing Medicare
Speaker: Hon. Mark McClellan, Administrator, Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services (CMS) (2004-present); & Commissioner, Food and
Drug Administration (2002-2004)
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
January 18, 2005 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
& Co-Author (with Mark Mills), The
Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste, and
Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books,
January 2005)
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 Institute25th 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
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
May 28, 2003 | Washington, DC
Manhattan Institute | Heritage Foundation Book Forum
Speaker: Sol Stern, Contributing Editor, City Journal &
Author, Breaking
Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice
(Encounter Books, 2003)
Hosted by: Becky Norton Dunlop, Vice President External Relations,
The Heritage Foundation
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
October 1, 2001 | Washington, D.C.
Manhattan Institute Luncheon
Topic: "Telecom Deregulation: The Abominable TELRIC-BS"
Speaker: Dr. Alfred Kahn, Professor Emeritus of Political
Economy, Cornell University; Author, Whom the Gods Would Destroy,
or How Not to Deregulate
Introductory Remarks: Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan
Institute
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