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Panel discussion. Panelists: Andrew Cherlin, William Doherty, Doyle McCarthy, Arlene Skolnick. [http://fora.tv/2008/04/02/Changing_American_Family]

Inscription: 4/2/2008 The Changing American Family.

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Moderator: Anthony Pereira. Panelists: Steve Fleischli, president of the Waterkeeper Alliance; the Reverend Patricia Ackerman, special projects and media liaison for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and member of the steering committee of Code Pink and of the advisory board of the Occupation Watch Center in Iraq; and Richard Perez, senior research associate, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, SUNY-Albany.

Inscription: Sonya Farganis [sic] / U Hall / Environ. + Politics / 1.30.08.

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Speakers: Bob Kerrey and journalist Linda Greenhouse. Co-sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs and the Institute for Retired Professionals.

Inscription: 9/23/08 The Courts and Constitutional...

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A public forum on the growing concentration of wealth, income and power in America. Moderated by Laura Flanders, author of The W Effect and host of Air America’s “Laura Flanders Show” and featuring Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and Princeton economist, on the causes and far-reaching consequences of the quarter-century-long trend of growing economic inequality in America. Joined by Meizhu Lui of United for a Fair Economy; James Lardner, senior fellow at DEMOS and co-author of the groundbreaking new book Inequality Matters; and other panelists. With introductions by Miles Rapoport, President of DEMOS. Co-sponsored by Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School, The New Press and DEMOS.

Inscription: Inequality Matters / Tishman Aud / Tues. 1/31/06 / orig.

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Panel discussion. Participants include Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, with Marjorie Heins, Daniel C. Maguire, and Caitlin Borgmann. Sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs.

Inscription: Sondra Farganis / Wollman Hall / Tues Oct 23 2007 (orig) / The Abortion Controversies.

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Third in a four-part series. Speakers: Bob Abernethy, Chris Hedges, Blu Greenberg, Irving Greenberg. Inscription: Conversations: Religion and Politics / NS-Wolfson / Apr 5, 07.

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Public Policy Program panel discussion. Panelists: William Kristol, Edward Rothstein, Jonathan Schell. [information on this event was found in Publications box 1, in folder Gradfacts]

Underwritten by Kenneth J. Bialkin and the Bialkin Family Foundation.

Inscription: Iraq and the Media / 11/16/04.

Scope and Contents Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who died last March at age 76, represented New York in the U.S. Senate for four terms. He was before and during his time in the Senate a scholar, policy expert, and public intellectual who addressed important social issues and never shied away from controversy. Many of the issues he took up as a scholar and as a politician are still alive and controversial. A panel of distinguished scholars, journalists, and critics reflects on his legacy: E.J. Dionne, Washington Post; Nathan Glazer, author of We Are All Multicultural Now; Jennifer Hochschild, author of Facing Up to the American Dream; Diane Lewis, Department of Architecture, Cooper Union; Orlando Patterson, Professor of Sociology, Harvard; and David Plotke, author of Building a Democratic Political Order. Presented by the Wolfson Center for National...

Scope and Contents Americans finance everything from casual dinners to major wars. Our standard of living improves, businesses expand, and government becomes more potent because of large amounts of available credit. Conversely, last year, consumer borrowing resulted in more than 1.5 million personal bankruptcies. Business bankruptcies were so high that the fallout is not yet calculable. For what purposes are personal, business, and government borrowing reasonable? How does government borrowing influence our financial activities? Who are the creditors holding U.S. debt? Can the U.S. government become bankrupt? Is debt the correct tool for improving our long-term economic and emotional quality of life? Are there alternatives to debt?Panelists: Heidi Hartmann, economist, Director of the Institution for Women's Policy Research; Jeffrey Madrick, fellow of the World Policy Institute and editor, Challenge magazine; Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of...

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Speakers: Alan Wolfe, author of The Transformation of American Religion, Michael Lind, Peggy Steinfels. Moderator: Jacques Berlinerblau.

Inscription: Religion in American Life / 11/19/03.