Thursday, March 13, 2008

Great Talks

Some interesting forums from Miller Center for Public Affairs;

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

Does Emotion or Rational Interest Motivate Voters?

The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm

President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman


Globalization and Civilization

The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

Are Western Leadership Concepts Appropriate in Islamic Cultures? Implications for Global Business Affairs

The Art of Government Relations: When the Co-Equal Branches are Locked in a Power Struggle

Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell

The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008

Is Our National Security Bureaucracy Up to the Challenge?

Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Mapping the Global Future

The Social Security Reform Debacle: Were Lessons Learned, or Does This Foretell the Future of Other Bush Reform Initiatives?


Room for Growth: President Lincoln's Early Stumbles

American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

Fighting World Hunger

The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

Managing the Financial War against Terrorists

Martin Van Buren: The Original Party Boss

Marriage: A History

Twilight in the Desert:The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy

Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times

What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa

Looking at China

Exporting Reconstruction: Lessons Learned and Lessons Not Learned

Eliot Spitzer and the War Against White Collar Crime

Of Love and War: Roosevelt, Churchill and the Way We Live Now

Faith of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed

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