Recent Forums
For a list of upcoming forums, please see our forum schedule. For a complete list of past Miller Center forums, please see our forum archive.
Friday, March 19, 2010
11:00 AM
John Yoo
JOHN YOO, who authored the infamous “torture memos” while serving in the George W. Bush administration’s Justice Department, argues in Crisis and Command (Kaplan Publishing, 2010) that presidents gain power at the expense of Congress during national security crises. Yoo, who teaches law at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall Law School, has written two previous books dealing with war and presidential power. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
11:00 AM
Michael Davis
Virginia Festival of the Book Event Before MICHAEL DAVIS wrote the New York Times bestseller Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (Penguin, 2009), he was a senior editor at TV Guide, and worked at both the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Sun-Times. Prior to this Forum, David Mullins, President and General Manager of WVPT-PBS and George H. Gilliam, Chair of the Miller Center Forum, will judge a contest of Sesame Street character drawings and costumes submitted by students in the Central Virginia area. Following the Forum, meet the local artists and have Davis sign your copy of his book, which will be on sale at the Miller Center.
Monday, March 15, 2010
11:00 AM
Brigadier General Herbert McMaster
BRIGADIER GENERAL HERBERT R. MCMASTER is Chief of Concept Development and Experimentation at the U. S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command at Ft. Monroe. He has spoken and written on the reliance of the war effort on technology, including a piece in War Affairs Journal, “The Human Element: When Gadgetry Becomes Strategy.” This Forum is part of a series on the state of the military
Friday, March 12, 2010
11:00 AM
Matthew Spalding
MATTHEW SPALDING is Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. An expert on political history and constitutionalism, he is co-author of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005), a clause-by-clause look at that foundational document by 109 legal specialists. Spalding appears frequently on The Glenn Beck Program. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Monday, March 8, 2010
11:00 AM
Jack Goldstone
JACK A. GOLDSTONE, Professor of Public Policy at George Mason, warns that by 2050, the relative demographic weight of the world’s developed countries will drop nearly 25 percent, their labor forces will substantially age and decline, and most of the world’s expected population growth will be concentrated in today’s poorest, youngest, and predominantly Muslim countries. How must the world’s basic global-governance structures be changed to deal with these conditions?
Friday, March 5, 2010
11:00 AM
David Cole
Georgetown University Law School Professor DAVID COLE writes, “With approximately 2.3 million people in prison or jail, the United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. …We have a 40-percent lead on our closest competitors, Russia and Belarus.” Most U.S. prisoners are black, poor, uneducated, and not a cause for concern for most Americans. What can Americans do to reform their corrections system? More information can found be at www.nybooks.com/articles/23382.
Monday, March 1, 2010
11:00 AM
William Miller
Americans inaugurated Barack Obama as president just weeks before celebrating the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. WILLIAM LEE MILLER, Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the Miller Center and author of Lincoln’s Virtue’s: An Ethical Biography (Vintage, 2003), considers whether Obama is an heir to Lincoln’s legacies. Archived videos of other recent Miller Center talks by Miller are available at www.millercenter.org.
Monday, February 22, 2010
11:00 AM
David Breneman
Do we have enough college graduates to remain a world class economic power? Is the college business model broken? DAVID W. BRENEMAN, a University Professor and the Newton & Rita Meyers Professor in the Economics of Education, served as Dean of the Curry School of Education from 1995 to 2007, and as Director of the Public Policy Program at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He analyses questions that will be the subject of two Miller Center National Discussion and Debate Series events during the spring of 2010.
Friday, February 19, 2010
11:00 AM
John Nichols, Robert McChesney
JOHN NICHOLS and ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY are the founders of Free Press and the authors of Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy (New Press, 2006). Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation, has written “The Beat” blog since 1999. The author of 16 books, McChesney is Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois.
Monday, February 15, 2010
11:00 AM
Michael Burlingame
MICHAEL BURLINGAME, the May Buckley Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus at Connecticut College, is the author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life (2 vols.; Johns Hopkins, 2008) and The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1994). He has also edited several volumes of Lincoln primary source materials. Burlingame has received the Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize, and was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2009.
