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Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis discuss gun control and the right to self-defense with Craig Whitney, author of "Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment."
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Paul Howard and Luke Timmerman, an award-winning journalist at Xconomy, discuss the challenges faced by the biotech industry in utilizing big data's potential to revolutionize healthcare.
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Laura Finn, web editor for BoardMember.com and James Copland discuss the results of ProxyMonitor.org's first finding in the 2013 Proxy Monitor season.
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James Copland and Ted Frank, discuss the significance of the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Comcast v. Behrend and its potential impact on class action litigation.
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Paul Howard and Chris Conover discuss his new book, "American Health Economy Illustrated" - which Paul describes as the "single best fact book on Healthcare."
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May 15, 2013 | New York City
Center for the Medical Progress
Topic: The Digital Future of Molecular Medicine: Rethinking FDA Regulation
Discussant: Peter Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Author, The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law Is Undermining; 21st Century Medicine (Basic Books, Fall 2013)
Introduction: Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, Chairman, Project FDA; Former Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Former Director, National Cancer Institute
Opening Remarks: Paul Howard, Director, Center for Medical Progress
EVENT VIDEO - PART I
Topic: Roundtable I: Precision Medicine in a Digital World: Matching Patients and Therapies
Discussants: Linda Avey, Co-Founder & CEO, Curious Inc.; Co-Founder, 23andMe; John Crowley, President & CEO, Amicus Therapeutics; Andy Palmer, Founder, Koa Lab; Co-Founder, Vertica Systems; Karen Gutekunst, Vice President, Research and Development, Clarient
Moderator: Paul Howard, Director, Center for Medical Progress
EVENT VIDEO - PART II
Topic: Roundtable II: Rethinking FDA Regulation in a Digital World
Discussants: Newton Crenshaw, Vice President, Oncology, Eli Lilly; Vicki Seyfert Margolis, Chief Strategy & Science Officer, Precision for Medicine; Former Senior Advisor for Science Innovation & Policy, U.S. FDA; Marty Kohn, Chief Medical Scientist, Care Delivery Systems, IBM Research
Moderator: Susan Winckler, President & CEO, Food & Drug Law Institute
EVENT VIDEO - PART III
Topic: How to Unleash Investment in Molecular Medicine
Introduction: Paul Howard, Director, Center for Medical Progress
Keynote: Mark Levin, Partner & Co-Founder, Third Rock Ventures
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May 6, 2013 | New York City
The Twelfth Annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner
Opening: Paul Singer, Chairman, Manhattan Institute
Honoring: Kenneth G. Langone, President & CEO, Invemed Associates, LLC
Introduction: Geoffrey Canada, President & CEO, Harlem Children's Zone
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Opening: Paul Singer, Chairman, Manhattan Institute
Honoring: Governor Bobby Jindal, 55th Governor, State of Louisiana
Introduction: Joel I. Klein, Chief Executive Officer, Amplify & Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman, News Corporation
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April 3, 2013 | New York City
Center for the American University
Topic: What Are Our Liberal Arts Colleges Really Teaching: An In-Depth Look At Bowdoin
Speakers: William Bennett, Former U.S. Secretary of Education, Washington Fellow, Claremont Institute; Peter Wood, President, National Association of Scholars; Thomas Klingenstein, President, Cohen Klingenstein, LLC
Introductory Remarks: John Leo, Senior Fellow, Center for the American University
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March 4, 2013 | New York City
Center for State and Local Leadership & Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Title: Immigration Wars: Forging An American Solution (Threshold Editions, March 2013)
Authors: Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, 1999-2007; Clint Bolick, Director, Goldwater Institute
Introductory Remarks: Daniel Henninger, Deputy Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal
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February 28, 2013 | New York City
Center for State and Local Leadership & Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Topic: Curriculum Counts: Fulfilling The Promise Of The Common Core State Standards
Moderator: Sol Stern, Contributing Editor, City Journal Panelists: Tony Bennett, Commissioner, Florida Department of Education; Linda Bevilacqua, President, Core Knowledge Foundation; Kathleen Porter-Magee, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; Merryl Tisch, Chancellor, New York State Board of Regents
Introductory Remarks: Sol Stern, Contributing Editor, City Journal, Charles Sahm, Deputy Director, Center for State and Local Leadership
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February 22, 2013 | New York City
Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Growth, Reform, and Freedom Can Revive American Prosperity
Speaker: Thomas J. Donohue, President & CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Introductory Remarks: Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute
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February 2, 2013 | New York City
Adam Smith Society
Title: Next-Gen Business Leaders: Power and Responsibility - Part I
Welcoming Remarks: Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Opening Remarks: Marilyn Fedak, Founder, The Marilyn G. Fedak Capitalism Project
EVENT VIDEO
Title: Next-Gen Business Leaders: Power and Responsibility - Part II
Welcoming Remarks: Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Keynote Address: John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market and author of Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
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January 10, 2013 | New York City
2012 Urban Innovator Award
Speaker: Robert Doar, Commissioner, NYC Human Resources Administration
Introductory Remarks: Peter Cove, Founder, America Works of New York, Inc.
Welcoming Remarks: Howard Husock, Vice President, Manhattan Institute
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December 18, 2012 | New York City
The Manhattan Institute, the Lindsey Group and the American Friends of Policy Exchange Forum
Featuring: George Osborne, MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of the Treasury of the United Kingdom, Lawrence Lindsey, The Lindsey Group
Introductory Remarks: Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute
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December 12, 2012 | New York City
2012 William E. Simon Lecture
Topic: Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World
Recipient: Matthew Bishop, American Business Editor & New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
Introduction: Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research, Director, Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, Manhattan Institute
Introductory Remarks: James Piereson, President, William E. Simon Foundation, Director, Center for American University
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December 5, 2012 | New York City
Center for State and Local Leadership Forum
Topic: Breaking the Deadlock: Toward a Solution on Teacher Evaluations in New York City
Welcoming Remarks: Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute
Panelists: Marcus Winters, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Aaron Pallas, Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University; Marc Sternberg, Deputy Chancellor, NYC Department of Education
Moderator: Josh Greenman, Opinion Editor, New York Daily News
Keynote: Dennis M. Walcott, Chancellor, NYC Department of Education
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December 3, 2012 | New York City
Power and Growth Intiative Forum
Topic: North America's Energy Future: A New Middle East?
Featuring: Mark Mills, Senior Fellow, Manhattan; John Prato, Consul General of Canada in New York; Luis de la Calle, Managing Director De la Calle, Madrazo & Mancera
Moderator: Mary Anastasia O'Grady, The Wall Street Journal
Welcoming Remarks: Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research, Manhattan Institute
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November 29, 2012 | New York City
Center for Legal Policy Forum
Title: Constitutional Law After Obamacare Panel: Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law; Adam Freedman, Author, The Naked Constitution; Michael Greve, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Richard Epstein, Visiting Scholar, Manhattan Institute
Moderator: James Copland, Director, Center for Legal Policy
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November 14, 2012 | New York City
2012 Social Entrepreneurship Awards
Recipients: Brian Lamb, Executive Chairman, C-SPAN;; Michael Dippy, IDignity; Mark Goldsmith, Getting Out and Staying Out; Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, BUILD; Daniel Reingold, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention
Master of Ceremonies: Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research, Director, Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, Manhattan Institute
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November 5, 2012 | New York City
2012 Wriston Lecture
Topic: The One Hoss Shay
Author: David Mamet, Playwright, Screenwriter & Director
Introduction: Paul E. Singer, Chairman of the Board, Manhattan Institute
Welcoming Remarks: Lawrence J. Mone, President, Manhattan Institute
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Brian Anderson reads In Prospect from the Winter 2013 edition on City Journal.
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Brian Anderson reads "In Prospect"
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Harvey Silverglate talks about "Misconduct Hearings on Campus Are Rotten and Have to Change"
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KC Johnson talks about "What Yale and the Times Did to Patrick Witt"
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Jerry Weinberger reads his Diarist article, "On Smoking a Cigar", from the winter 2011 issue of City Journal.
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