Press Releases

The events for the 2023 season are as follows:*
Monday, March 27 The Economy and Inflation – Can We Avoid a Recession?
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. with Michael Boskin, professor of Economics and senior fellow at
Stanford University's Hoover Institution and former Chair of the Council
of Economic Advisers under President George H.W. Bush;
John Harwood, journalist and former White House Correspondent;
Maya MacGuineas, president, Committee for a Responsible Federal
Budget; and Christina Romer, Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics
at the University of California, Berkeley and former Chair of the Council
of Economic Advisers under President Obama.

Monday, April 17 Democracy vs. Autocracy – Can the U.S. Unify Allies in a Dangerous
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. World? with Robert Gates, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2006-2011);
General David Petraeus, U.S. Army (Ret.), Director of the CIA (2011-
2012); and Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy (Ret.), NATO Supreme
Allied Commander Europe (2009-2013).

Monday, May 29 Message from the Midterms – Will Republicans and Democrats
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Listen? with John Boehner, U.S. Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives (2011-2015); Liz Cheney, U.S. Representative (R),
Wyoming (2017-2021) (invited); Heidi Heitkamp, U.S. Senator (D),
North Dakota (2013-2019); and Steny Hoyer, U.S. Representative (D),
Maryland.

Monday, June 12 History and a Divided Nation – Can We Survive? with
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and CNN
commentator; Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian and Carl M.
Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008,
for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family; and
Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.