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The
Manhattan Institute has been an important force in shaping American political
culture. By supporting and publicizing research on our era's most challenging
public policy issues: taxes, welfare, crime, the legal system, urban life,
race, education, and many other topics, we have won new respect for market-oriented
policies and helped make reform a reality.
The
Manhattan Institute regularly hosts forums in New York City and Washington,
DC for policy makers, business people, researchers and journalists. The
following is a listing of recent Manhattan Institute conferences and luncheons.
Select events are transcribed or video taped and those are available to
the general public here on the website.
Individuals
who support the Institute at the Benefactor level or above receive invitations
to most of these events. If you have been thinking about joining the Manhattan
Institute or increasing your membership support but are not yet convinced,
we would be happy to invite you to be a guest at one of our upcoming events.
We're confident that our talent and scope will impress you. To learn more,
please contact Jaclyn Kiely, Development Officer, at (212) 599-7000, or
via email at jkiely@manhattan-institute.org.
October 2009
October 5, 2009 | New York, NY
Manhattan Institute Wriston Lecture
Topic: Decline Is a Choice
Speaker: Dr. Charles Krauthammer, Syndicated Columnist
Introduction: Paul E. Singer, Chairman, Manhattan Institute
EVENT VIDEO
September 2009
September 29, 2009 | New York, NY
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: If Heredity Explains Behavior, Do People Have Free Will?
Speaker: James Q. Wilson
Introduction: Kay Hymowitz Contributing Editor, City Journal; William
Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute
September 23, 2009 | New York, NY
Center for American University Forum
Speaker: Patrick Deneen Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government, Founding Director, Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, Georgetown University
Topic: The Crisis of the Liberal Arts and Why They Must Be Restored
Introduction: John Leo Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Editor,
MindingTheCampus.com
September 22, 2009 | Albany, NY
Center for Medical Progress and Empire Center for New York State Policy
Topic: Healthier Choice: Market-Based Reforms for New York's Uninsured
Introduction E.J. McMahon, Director, Empire Center for New York State Policy
Presentation: Steve Parente, Associate Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota;
Tarren Bragdon, Adjunct Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Chief Executive Officer, Maine Heritage Policy Center
Respondents: Peter Newell, Co-Director, Health Insurance Project, United Hospital Fund;
Dan Colacino, Vice President, Rose and Kiernan, Inc., Past President, NYS Association of Health Underwriters
Moderator: William B. Cromie, M.D., M.B.A
EVENT VIDEO | SLIDESHOW | INTERACTIVE MAP
September 16, 2009 | New York City
Center for Energy and the Environment Forum
Title: Kill Oil With Natural Gas And Electricity
Speakers: Peter Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Introduction: Rodney Nichols, President & CEO Emeritus, New York Academy of Sciences, Trustee, Manhattan Institute
EVENT VIDEO
September 15, 2009 | New York City
Center for Rethinking Development Forum
Title: Thinking Big, New York and London: Heading Back To The Top
Speakers: Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York; Boris Johnson, Mayor, London
September 10, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Title: Why Are Jews Liberal? (Doubleday, 2009)
Author: Norman Podhoretz
Introduction: Seth Lipsky, Founding Editor, The New York Sun
 EVENT VIDEO
September 9, 2009 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Title: Corporate Criminality: A Public Danger
Speaker: Richard A. Epstein, Visiting Scholar, Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago, Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Introduction: James Copland,Director, Center for Legal Policy
July 2009
July 22, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Title: The Israel Test (Richard Vigilante Books, 2009)
Author: George Gilder
Introduction: Midge Decter, Author and Critic, Winner of the National Humanities Medal
July 9, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Title: Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis
Author: Guy Sorman, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Contributing Editor, City Journal
Introduction: Brian Carney, Editorial Board Member, Wall Street Journal
EVENT VIDEO
July 7, 2009 | New York City
City Journal Conference
Topic: New York's Tomorrow: A Conference Devoted to a Special Issue of City Journal
Presenters: Edmund J. McMahon, Director, Empire Center for New York State Policy; Heather Mac Donald, Senior Fellow,
Manhattan Institute; Contributing Editor, City Journal; Sol Stern, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Contributing Editor, City Journal
Keynote: Edward Glaeser, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Contributing Editor, City Journal
EVENT VIDEO: E.J. McMahon | Heather Mac Donald | Sol Stern | Edward Glaeser
June 2009
June 24, 2009 | New York City
Center for Medical Progress Forum
Topic: Is a European Model the Right Prescription for American Health Care?
Speaker: Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., Founder & Chairman, Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths Former Lieutenant Governor, New York State
June 11, 2009 | Washington, D.C.
Center for Medical Progress Forum
Topic: Forging A New Plan for Health-Care Reform
Presenter: Douglas Holtz-Eakin Former Director of the Congressional Budget Office
Panelists: United States Senator Richard Burr State of North Carolina; United States Senator Tom Coburn State of Oklahoma
June 10, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Title: Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement
Author: Richard Brookhiser Senior Editor, National Review
EVENT VIDEO
June 8, 2009 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: The Criminalization of Corporate Conduct: Trends, problems, and Solutions
Speaker: Kenneth G. Langone, Chairman & CEO, Invemed
Associates, LLC; Co-Founder, Home Depot;
Dick Thornburgh Of Counsel, K & L Gates LLP; Former Attorney
General of the United States Moderaor: J.P. Donlon Editor-in-Chief, Chief
Executive Magazine
EVENT VIDEO
May 2009
May 8, 2009 | New York City
Center for Energy Policy and the Environment Book Forum
Title: Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide To Global
Warming
Author: Bjorn Lomborg, Director, Copenhagen Consensus
Center
May 7, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Keeping New York In The Black: Our Current Fiscal Woes
In Light Of The 1975 Fiscal Crisis
Panelists: Stephen Berger, Chairman, Odyssey Investment
Partners; Eugene Keilin, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor,
KPS Capital Partners, LP; John E. Zuccotti, Co-Chairman,
Brookfield Properties Corporation
Opening Remarks: Fred Siegel, Senior Fellow, Manhattan
Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal
Moderator: Dr. Frank J. Macchiarola, Chancellor, St.
Francis College
May 5, 2009 | New York City
Center for American University Forum
Topic: Threats to Academic Freedom: Do Campuses and Courts Care?
Speaker: Donald A. Downs, Professor, University of
Wisconsin
Introduction: John Leo, Senior Fellow, Center for
the American University; Editor, MindingTheCampus.com
April 2009
April 30, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: School Choice: The Answer For New York's Twin Fiscal &
Educational Crisis?
Introduction: Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy
Research, Manhattan Institute
Opening Remarks: Malcolm Smith, Majority Leader, New
York State Senate
Panel I: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?
Speaker: Marcus Winters, Senior Fellow, Manhattan
Institute
Panel II: Actionable School Choice Proposals
Speakers: Jay P. Greene, Special Education Scholarships,
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; David G. Greenfield, Esq.,
Education Tax Credits, Executive Director, Sephardic Community
Federation; Thomas W. Carroll, Religious Charters?, President,
Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability; Joe Williams,
President Obama's Lift The Charter Cap Plan, Executive Director,
Democrats for Education Reform; Sol Stern, Senior Fellow,
Manhattan Institute; Contributing Editor, City Journal
Moderator: Edward F. Cox, Of Counsel, Patterson, Belknap,
Webb & Tyler, LLP; Trustee, New York State University; former
Chairman, Student Sponsor Partnership
April 23, 2009 | New York City
Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: Improving Teacher Quality: Key To Urban School Reform
Keynote: Eric A. Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Panel I: Reforming Teacher Compensation
Speakers: Daniel Koretz, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor
of Education, Harvard University; Michael Podgursky,
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Missouri;
Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of
Teachers; Marcus Winters, Senior Fellow, Manhattan
Institute
Moderator: Sol Stern, Contributing Editor, City Journal;
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Panel II: Reforming teacher Training and recruitment
Speakers: Temp Keller, Founder & President, Resources
for Indispensable Schools & Educators (RISE); Sandra Stotsky,
Professor of Education Reform, 21st Century Chair in Teacher
Quality, University of Arkansas; Kate Walsh, President,
National Council on Teacher Quality; Jeff Wetzler, Senior
Vice President, Teacher Preparation, Support and Development
& Chief Learning Officer, Teach for America
Moderator: David C. Bloomfield, Professor & Head,
Master's Degree Program in Educational Leadership, Brooklyn College,
City University of New York
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April 22, 2009 | New York City
Center for Rethinking Development Forum
Topic: What's Wrong with New York City's Property Tax? And How
We Can Fix It
Panelists: Edmund J. McMahon, Senior Fellow, Manhattan
Institute, Director, Empire Center for New York State Policy;
Rosemary Scanlon, Associate Professor of Economics,
Schack Institute of Real Estate, New York University; Steven
Spinola, President, Real Estate Board of New York; Martha
E. Stark, Commissioner, New York City Department of Finance
Moderator: Hope Cohen, Deputy Director, Center for
Rethinking Development
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April 20, 2009 | New York City
Center for Energy Policy and the Environment Forum
Topic: Energy and the Environment: Myths and Facts
Presenter: Drew Thornley, Author, Energy and the Environment:
Myths and Facts
Discussants: Robert Bryce, Editor, Energy Tribune,
Author, Gusher of Lies; Steven Hayward, Senior
Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Mark P. Mills,
Partner, Digital Power Capital
April 7, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: A Plan for Health-care Reform
Speaker: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Former Director of Domestic
and Economic Policy, 2008 John McCain Presidential Campaign
Introductory Remarks: Paul Howard, Director, Center
for Medical Progress
April 2, 2009 | Washington, D.C.
Center for Energy Policy and the Environment Forum
Topic: Will We Bury The Nuclear Renaissance? Does President Obama's
Opposition to Yucca Mountain Imperil the Expansion of Nuclear Power
and What we can do to get Nuclear Waste Policy Back on Track
Keynote: The Honorable Pete V. Domenici, Senior Fellow,
Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Chairman, Senate Energy
Committee
Panelists: Dorothy R. Davidson, Vice President for Government
Programs, AREVA Inc.; David J. Modeen, Director,
External Affairs for Nuclear Power, Electric Power Research Institute;
Jack Spencer, Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy, The
Heritage Foundation
Moderator: Max Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for Energy
Policy and the Environment
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Key Note Address and Q & A
March 2009
March 31, 2009 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence"
Author: Robert Bryce
Introductory Remarks: Max Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center
for Energy Policy and the Environment
March 26, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: In the Wake of Wyeth v. Levine: Making the Case for FDA
Preemption and Administrative Compensation
Presenters: James Copland, Director, Center for Legal
Policy at the Manhattan Institute; Paul Howard, Director,
Center for Medical Progress at the Manhattan Institute
Respondents: Philip K. Howard, Vice Chairman, Covington
& Burling; John C. O'Quinn, Former Deputy Associate Attorney
General, United States Department of Justice
February
2009
February 25, 2009 | New York City
Center for Energy Policy and the Environment Forum
Topic: Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green
Revolution and End America's Energy Odyssey
Author: William Tucker
Introductory Remarks: Max Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center
for Energy Policy and the Environment
February 24, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Black America in the Obama Era
Speakers: The Honorable Cory A. Booker, Mayor, City
of Newark, New Jersey; Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake, Pastor,
The Greater Allen A.M.E.Cathedral of New York; Geoffrey Canada,
President and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone
Moderator: John McWhorter, Senior Fellow, Manhattan
Institute
EVENT VIDEO
February 11, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom The
Economy If We Let It Happen
Speakers: Stephen Moore, Senior Economics Writer, The
Wall Street Journal, Former President, Club for Growth
February 5, 2009 | New York City
Center for the American University Forum
Topic: New Institutional Forms in Higher Education
Panel I: History of Higher Education and Its Contemporary
Implications
Panelists: Charles Harper, Senior Executive Vice President
and Chief Strategist, Templeton Foundation; James W. Ceaser,
Professor of Politics, University of Virginia; Anthony
T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University
Moderator: James Piereson, President, William E. Simon
Foundation
Panel II: The University Of The Future
Panelists: Michael Crow, President, Arizona State
University; Charles Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar, American
Enterprise Institute; Carol D'Amico, President & CEO,
Conexus Indiana; former Assistant Secretary for Vocational and
Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education
Moderator: John Leo, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute;
Editor, MindingTheCampus.com
Luncheon Keynote: David Gelernter, Professor,
Yale University; National Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
January
2009
January 27, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Reagan I Knew By William F. Buckley, Jr.
Speakers: Richard Lowry, Editor, National Review;
L. Brent Bozell, III, Founder & President, Media Research
Center; Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, National Review,
Author, George Washington on Leadership
Moderator: Brian C. Anderson, Editor, City Journal
EVENT
VIDEO
January 21, 2009 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans From Too Much
Law
Author: Philip K. Howard, Vice Chairman, Covington
& Burling, Founder & Chairman, Common Good
Introductory Remarks: James Copland, Director, Center
for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute
January 15, 2009 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Energy Challenge
Speaker: Michael G. Morris, Chairman, President &
CEO, American Electric Power Introductory Remarks: Lawrence
Mone, President, Manhattan Institute
Discussant: J. P. Donlon, Editor, Chief Executive
January 14, 2009 | New York City
Center for Rethinking Development Forum
Topic: Infrastructure
We Can Live With: The Neighborly Substation
Presenter: Hope Cohen, Deputy Director,Center for
Rethinking Development
Panelists: Ronald H. Bozgo, Vice President for Engineering,
Con Edison; Ashok Gupta, Air and Energy Program Director,
Natural Resources Defense Council; James T. Gallagher, Senior
Vice President, NYC Economic Development Corp., Chairman,
Mayor's Energy Policy Task Force; Janno Lieber, President,
World Trade Center Properties, Silverstein Properties
Moderator: Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan
Institute
January 8, 2009 | New York City
Center for American University Book Forum
Topic: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies
Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
Author: Mark Bauerlein, Professor, Emory
University
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