REGULAR DAYTIME EVENTS
HELD AT THE NYC PRIVATE CLUBS, AND ON ZOOM.
All are welcome to bring a bagged lunch at noon to dine in the reception hall.
September 17 at 1 PM: Adjusting to a New World Order
Joe Klein is a political journalist and author renowned for his incisive commentary on U.S. politics. Throughout his career, Klein has been a political columnist for notable publications such as Newsweek and Time magazine, where his weekly column "In the Arena" covered national and international affairs, earning him two National Headliner Awards. He is known for his novel Primary Colors, which was a roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Mr. Klein has authored several other books, including Woody Guthrie: A Life; Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam; and The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton.
October 15 at 1 PM: Garden of the Righteous
Richard Hurowitz is an investor, writer and the publisher of the Octavian Report. His latest book, In the Garden of the Righteous (Harper, 2023), chronicles extraordinary acts of courage. In another book (Public Affairs, 2018): Fight for Liberty: Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump, Mr. Hurowitz brings together essays from respected writers and thinkers, including Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Max Boot, Bret Stephens, Richard North Patterson, Ted Koppel, Natan Sharansky who make the “urgent” case for liberal democracy. Mr. Hurowitz has served on the boards of several international companies, worked in hedge fund investment and was the founder and chief investment officer of Octavian Advisors, an international special situations and distressed investment fund.
November 5 at 1 PM: America Adrift: The End of the East Coast Foreign Policy Elite
Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter is a global leader, scholar and public commentator. She is currently CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing the promise of America in a period of rapid demographic, technological, and global change. She previously served as a professor of international, foreign, and comparative law at Harvard Law School; dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; and as the first woman director of policy planning for the United States Department of State.
December 3 at 1 PM: It’s Physics not Politics, Visions of A Sustainable Future
Mark Gabriel, President and CEO, United Power; award-winning author of Visions for a Sustainable Energy Future.
January 21 at 1 PM: Systemic Corruption in Russia and War in Ukraine
Matthew Murray, Human rights lawyer, civil society activist and founder of an anti-corruption NGO in Russia. Professor at the Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs and Harriman Institute and co-founder of a Columbia Forum that convenes U.S. government experts, practitioners and academics to Innovate Solutions to Systemic Corruption.
February 11 at 1 PM, ZOOM ONLY: TBA
March 11 at 1 PM: TBA
April 8 at 1 PM: TBA
May 13 at 1 PM: The State of Major Power Competition in the Trump 2.0 Era: The Tools and Rules of Competition
Dewardric L. McNeal, former Obama Administration appointee and expert on U.S.-China relations, is Managing Director of Longview Global, advising governments and corporations worldwide on policy, trade, and security, following a career spanning the Department of Defense, the Brookings Institution, and international development in Africa.
PATRON EVENTS
EVENT LOCATIONS ANNOUNCED TO PATRON MEMBERS
All Patron events will only be offered in person.
November 18 at 6:30 PM: Brushstrokes of Freedom: From Life Under Socialism to the Global Art Stage
Cornelia Thomsen is a German-born artist whose abstract paintings in watercolor and oil draw on her experiences growing up in East Germany under a surveillance state. Trained at the Meissen Porcelain Company and the University of Art and Design in Offenbach, she moved to New York in 2006, where her work explores memory, resilience, and the psychological traces of life under political repression through color, pattern, and form.
ELIZABETH FRENCH HITCHCOCK LECTURE
Hybrid Event
TBA