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Legal & Government
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him....
Signature Event
Thursday, March 20, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
For nearly a half-century, Eric Mann has worked on anti-war, labor, and environmental causes. He looks at how race, labor, and imm...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The U.S. government is disintegrating … and that’s a good thing, according to National Review contributor Kevin Williamson...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Competition between Kansas and Missouri goes back to the years before the Civil War, when Jayhawkers and “border ruffians” battled over the issue of s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Time magazine editor-at-large David Von Drehle holds a public conversation with Washington Post reporter...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which affirmed a woman’...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Bloomberg blogger Megan McArdle discuss Freeing the Economy i...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...