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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 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 Brian Leidy, Development Officer, at (212) 599-7000, or
via email at bleidy@manhattan-institute.org.
December
2007
December 11, 2007 | New York City
Center for Medical Progress Forum
Topic: New York's Uninsured: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Panel One: New York's Uninsured: A History of Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences
James R. Tallon, Jr., President, United Hospital Fund of New York
Mark Scherzer, Legislative Counsel, New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage
Tarren Bragdon, Health Policy Analyst, Empire Center for New York State Policy
Moderator: Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research, Manhattan Institute
Panel Two: Public Sector Experiments: Mandates, Medicaid, and Markets
Nina Owcharenko, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Health Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation (Invited)
Jon Kingsdale, Ph.D., Executive Director, Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority
Len Nichols, Ph.D., Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation
David Gratzer, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress
Moderator: Paul Howard, Acting Director, Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress
Keynote Address: Charles D. Baker, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Part I |
Part II |
Part III
December 6, 2007 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: The New Antitrust: Reexamining Microsoft and Other Consent Decrees
Speaker: Richard A. Epstein 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
Introduction: James R. Copland, Director, Center for Legal Policy, Manhattan Institute
November
2007
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 8, 2007 | New York City
Center for Race & Ethnicity Forum
Topic: Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans And Vagabonds:Mexican Immigration
And The Future Of Race In America
Author: Gregory Rodriguez, Columnist, Los Angeles Times
Introductory: John H. McWhorter, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
November 8, 2007 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: Neither Liberal Nor Conservative: A Maverick’s View Of
The Supreme Court
Speaker: Richard A. Epstein, 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
Introductory: Robert Rosenkranz, Chairman of the Board, Delphi
Financial Group, Inc.
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
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
October
2007
October 29, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today
Co-authors: Heather Mac Donald, John M. Olin Fellow, Manhattan
Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal, Steve Malanga,
Senior Fellow, Senior Editor, City Journal, Victor Davis Hanson,
Contributing Editor, City Journal
October 24, 2007 | New York City
Center For Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: The End of Government...As We Know It: Making Public Policy
Work
Speaker: Elaine C. Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy, John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Head of the National
Performance Review, Clinton White House (1993-1997)
October 23, 2007 | New York City
Center For Civic Innovation 2007 Social Entrepreneurship Awards Dinner
Master of Ceremonies: Howard Husock, Director, Social Entrepreneurship
Initiative, Manhattan Institute, Vice President, Programs, Manhattan Institute
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 17, 2007 | Albany
Center for Medical Progress Forum
Topic: Comparing Public and Private Health Insurance: Would a Single-Payer
System Save Enough to Cover the Uninsured?
Speaker: Benjamin Zycher, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for
Policy Research
Discussant: June O'Neill, Wollman Distinguished Professor of Economics
and Finance, Baruch College, Director, Congressional Budget Office (1995-1999)
Moderator: Howard Husock, Vice President of Programs, Manhattan
Institute for Policy Research
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 4, 2007 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: Aiding and Abetting Securities Liability: Reflections on Stoneridge
Investment v. Scientific-Atlanta
Speaker: Richard A. Epstein, 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
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
Opening
Session | Panel
I | Panel
II part 1 |
Panel II part 2 | Lunch:
Mark Steyn |
Panel III
September 2007
September 27, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired
America’s Founding Fathers
Author: Michael Barone, Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report
Introduction by: Richard Brookhiser, Author, What Would the
Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers
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
September 19, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism: And The Economics Of Growth
And Prosperity
Authors: Carl J. Schramm, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Robert E. Litan, Vice President
for Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, William
J. Baumol, Professor and Academic Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial
Studies, New York University and Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
Introduction by: Amity Shlaes, Senior Fellow for Economic History,
Council on Foreign Relations
September 19, 2007 | New York City
September 11, 2007 | New York City
Center for Policing Terrorism Book Forum
Topic: World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism
Author: Norman Podhoretz, Editor-at-Large, Commentary
Introduction by: Roger Hertog, Vice Chairman Emeritus,
AllianceBernstein, L.P.
September 6, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination
of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
Author: James Piereson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute,
President, William E. Simon Foundation
Introduction by: John Podhoretz, Columnist, New York
Post
June
2007
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 19, 2007 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy
Topic: The Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley: Understanding How Sarbanes-Oxley
Affects Your Business
Speaker: Stephen M. Bainbridge, Professor of Law, University
of California, Los Angeles
June 14, 2007 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy
Topic: Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial
Speaker: Alexander Tabarrok, Associate Professor of Economics,
George Mason University, Director of Research, Independent Institute
June 12, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline
Co-Author: Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political
Economics, Harvard University
June 7, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Author: Amity Shlaes, Visiting Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign
Relations, Syndicated Columnist, Bloomberg News
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
June 5, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Problem—and
the Consumer-Driven Cure
Author: Regina E. Herzlinger, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
May
2007
May 22, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Science of Reading Instruction and No Child Left Behind
Panel Discussion: Reading First and Reading Science
Panelists: G. Reid Lyon, Former Chief, Child Development and Behavior
Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National
Institutes of Health, Diane Ravitch, Education historian, research
Professor, New York University; and author of The Language Police:
How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Alfred Knopf, 2003),
among other books, Rick Nelson, Former President, Fairfax County
Federation of Teachers, Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax Virginia,
Maria Casby Allen, Parent Activist, Fairfax County Public Schools;
Fairfax, Virginia
Moderator: Sol Stern, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Keynote Address: Hon. Margaret Spellings, Secretary, U.S. Department
of Education
May 17, 2007 | New York City
Center for Rethinking Development Forum
Topic: Rethinking Environmental Review
Introduction by: Richard Ravitch, Principal, Ravitch, Rice &
Company LLC
Presentation of Report: Hope Cohen, Deputy Director, Center for
Rethinking Development
Panelists: Kent Barwick, President, Municipal Art Society, Jerilyn
Perine, Executive Director, Citizens Housing and Planning Council,
Robert D. Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association
Moderator: Julia Vitullo-Martin, Director, Center for Rethinking
Development
May 16, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Blair Legacy
Theodore Dalrymple, Dietrich Weismann Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Contributing Editor, City Journal
Introduction by: Brian Anderson, Editor, City Journal
May 15, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: "You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato": A Right-Left Conversation
About Immigrant Integration and Assimilation
Keynote: Hon. Henry Cisneros, Chairman, CityView
Panelists: Philip Kasinitz, Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center
and Hunter College, City University of New York, Noah Pickus, Director,
Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Margie McHugh, Co-Director,
National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, John Fonte, Senior
Fellow and Director, Center for American Common Culture, Hudson Institute
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,
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I: Weismann,
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I: Weismann,
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April
2007
April 26, 2007 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy
Topic: The Future of Wall Street: Can New York Stay on Top?
Speaker: Robert Steel, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, U.S.
Department of the Treasury
April 26, 2007 | New York City
Center for the American University
Topic: Administering Change in Higher Education
Speaker: The Honorable Hank Brown, President, University of Colorado,
Former United States Senator, Colorado
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 17, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: From A Cause To A Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter
With The American City
Introduction: Fred Siegel, Senior Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute;
Professor, Cooper Union for Science and Art
Speakers: Nathan Glazer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Education,
Harvard University
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
April 10, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Our Strategy in Iraq: What Has Changed? Can We Succeed?
Introduction: Melanie Kirkpatrick, Associate Editor, The Wall
Street Journal
Speakers: General Jack Keane (Ret.), Former Vice Chief of Staff,
United States Army
March
2007
March 28, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Is the Answer in the Atom? Meeting America's Energy Needs
Introduction: Clay Sell, Deputy Secretary, US Department of Energy
Speakers: John Woody, Business Solutions Fellow, Pew Center on
Global Climate Change, Andrew Kadak, Professor of the Practice, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Patrick Moore, Chair and Chief Scientist,
Greenspirit Strategies Ltd. & Co-founder, Greenpeace, William Schlesinger,
Dean, Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University,
Caren Byrd, Executive Director, Global Utility and Power Group,
Morgan Stanley, William Magwood, President, Secure Energy North
America, Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Nils Diaz,
Former Chairman, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
March 6, 2007 | New York City
Center for the American University
Topic: The Spectre of Intellectual Pluralism
Speaker: John Tomasi, Associate Professor, Political Science &
Director, Political Theory Project; Brown University
February
2007
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"
February 15, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Reforming New York City's Public Schools
Host: Christopher Cerf, Deputy Chancellor for Organizational Strategy,
Human Capital, and External Affairs, New York City Department of Education
Introduction: Abigail Thernstrom, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
February 6, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum In Cooperation with The Donald and Paula
Smith Family Foundation & The Wall Street Journal
Topic: The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
Author: Mark Halperin, Political Director, ABC News
Co-Author: John F. Harris, National Political Editor, The Washington
Post
Introduction: John Fund, The Wall Street Journal
January
2007
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
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Mone |
Murdoch |
Niskanen |
Murdoch,
Pinera | Murdoch,
Gigot | Panel
Discussion | Q
for the Panel | Stossel |
Q and A
January 18, 2007 | New York City
Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: Supportive Housing: The Solution for Chronic Homelessness?
Host: Philip F. Mangano, Executive Director, United States Interagency
Council on Homelessness Anne Foley Senior Policy Advisor, State of Connecticut
Office of Policy and Management
Introduction by: The Honorable Stephen Goldsmith, Director, Innovations
in American Government Awards Program; and Daniel Paul Professor of Government,
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation John F. Kennedy
School of Government Harvard University
January 9, 2007 | New York City
Center for Race and Ethnicity Forum
Topic: Book One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics
Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups Sentinel Publishing
Host: Herman Badillo, Senior Fellow Manhattan Institute
Introduction by: Edward Koch Partner, Bryan Cave
January 1, 2007 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Book Who Really Cares? The Surprising Truth About Compassionate
Conservatism Basic Books
Host: Arthur C. Brooks, Professor of Public Administration &
Director; Nonprofit Studies Program; Maxwell School of Citizenship &
Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Introduction by: Howard Husock, Vice President of Programs, Manhattan
Institute
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