Speakers, Fall 1987

 

Tuesday,
September 8
Helen Horowitz, professor of history, USC; author, Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, 1880's to 1917 (1976) and "Campus Life: Undergraduate Culture from the End of the Eighteenth Century to Present" (1987)
Wednesday,
September 9
Guenter Joetze, German Ambassador to the United States; "Balanced Force Reduction"
Thursday,
September 10
Jack Merritt, professor emeritus of physics, CMC; co-author, Strategic Defense Initiative: Folly or Future? (1986); "An Alternative to Star Wars"
Tuesday,
September 15
Kevin Starr, visiting scholar, Hoover Institution; author, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973) and Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era (1985); "Oz on the Pacific: Los Angeles in the 1920s"
Tuesday,
September 17
Mary Beth Haag, lecturer in voice, Scripps College; Paul Bishop, piano, Scripps College; "Birthday of the Constitution: Musical Performance" (6:00 p.m.)
Thursday,
September 17
Leonard Levy, professor of history, Claremont Graduate School; author, Origins of the Fifth Amendment (1986) and The Constitution (1987); "Church, State, and Liberty"
Thursday,
September 17
Harry Jaffa, Henry Salvatori professor of political philosophy and American Constitutionalism, CMC; author, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959) and The Conditions of Freedom (1975); "The American Founding as the Best Regime: The Bonding of Civil and Religious Liberty" (8:15 p.m. Bauer Lecture Hall)
Tuesday,
September 29
Don King, boxing entrepreneur; Roy Firestone, sports commentator; "Power and Politics in Athletics" (McKenna Auditorium)
Wednesday,
September 30
Pat Haden, former professional football player, Los Angeles Rams; Karch Kiraly, Olympic volleyball medalist; Conner Henry, professional basketball player, Boston Celtics; Ricky Davis, professional soccer player, Tacoma Stars; Kate Schmidt, Olympic track and field medalist; "Power and Politics in Athletics"
Thursday,
October 1
Mel Levine, sports agent; Glen Kozlowski, professional football player, Chicago Bears; "Power and Politics in Athletics"
Monday,
October 5
William Bradford, Jr., senior law partner, Hogan and Hartson, Washington, D. C.; "Public Education and the Religious Right"
Wednesday,
October 14
Kevin Starr, visiting scholar, Hoover Institution; author, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973) and Land's End (1979); "Small Renaissance, Southern California Style: The Los Angeles of Jake Zeitlin"
Tuesday,
October 27
John Irving, novelist; author, The World According to Garp (1978), The Cider House Rules (1985) and upcoming "A Prayer for Owen Meany" (McKenna Auditorium)
Wednesday,
October 28
John Irving, novelist; author, The Water-Method Man (1972) and The Hotel New Hampshire (1981); "To Be a Writer" (12:30 p.m.)
Wednesday,
October 28
George Deukmejian, California governor; "California Politics" (7:30 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
Wednesday,
November 4
Forest Pogue, biographer; author, The Supreme Command (1954) and George C. Marshall: Education of a General (1963); "40th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan: Leadership of General Marshall" (4:00 p.m.)
Wednesday,
November 4
Michael Hogan, professor of history, Ohio State University; author, The Marshall Plan, America, Britian, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe 1947-1952 (1987) and Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918-1928 (1977); "The Origins and Achievements of the Marshall Plan"
Wednesday,
November 4
John Gimbel, professor emeritus of history, C.S. Humboldt; author, Origins of the Marshall Plan (1976); "Germany and the Marshall Plan" (7:30 p.m.)
Monday,
November 9
Rob Kling, professor of computer science, U.C. Irvine; co-author, Computers and Politics: High Technology in American Local Government (1982); "Computers and Work from a Social Perspective"
Tuesday,
November 10
Irving Howe, professor of English, Hunter College; author, World of Our Fathers (1976) and Socialism and America (1985); "The End of Jewish Secularism" (McKenna Auditorium)
Wednesday,
November 11
Bonnie Snortum, piano; Lewis Ellenhorn, clarinet, professor emeritus of psychology, Pitzer College; Elmer Tolsted, cello; "Chamber Music: Bach, Ravel, Debussy, and Beethoven"
Thursday,
November 12
Irving Howe, professor of English, Hunter College; author, Leon Trotsky (1978) and Thomas Hardy (1985); "The Crisis of American Liberalism"
Friday,
November 13
James Buchanan, Jr., Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1986); professor of economics, University of Chicago; author, The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan (1975) and The Demand and Supply of Public Goods (1968); Viktor Vanberg, Center for Study of Public Choice; Allan Bloom, professor of economics, University of Chicago; author, Closing of the American Mind (1987) and co-author, Shakespeare as Political Thinker (1981); "Rational Order and Moral Order" (9:00 a.m. Bauer Forum)
Friday,
November 13
Jean-Claude Casanova, editorialist, L'Express; Thomas Borcherding, professor of economics, Claremont Graduate School; "Recent Western European Political Economy" (12:30 p.m.)
Friday,
November 13
David Gauthier, professor of philosophy, University of Pittsburg; author, Morality and Rational Self-Interest (1970); Ward Elliott, professor of government, CMC; author, Rise of Guardian Democracy: The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969 (1974); "Economic Man and the National Reasoner" (2:00 p.m. Bauer Forum)
Friday,
November 13
Donald McCloskey, professor of economics, University of Iowa; author, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics (1981); John Nelson, professor of political science, University of Iowa; editor, The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs (1987); "Rhetoric and Communication between Economics and Political Science"
Saturday,
November 14
Marc Plattner, director of program, National Endowment for Democracy; author, Rousseau's State of Nature (1979) and editor, Human Rights in Our Time (1984); Gary Evans, professor of humanities and social science, Harvey Mudd College; co-author, Macroeconomics (1984); "Natural Rights and the Moral Presuppositions of Political Economy" (9:00 a.m. Bauer Forum)
Saturday,
November 14
Steven Rhodes, professor of public policy, University of Virginia; Lee McDonald, professor of government, Pomona College; "Economists on Tastes and Preferences" (12:00 p.m.)
Saturday,
November 14
Nathan Rosenberg, Fairleigh S. Dickinson professor of public policy, Stanford University; co-author, How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World (1987) and Inside the Black Box (1983); Rodney Smith, professor of economics, CMC; author, Troubled Waters: Financing Water in the West (1984); Craig Stubblebine, professor of economics, CMC; co-editor, Reaganomics: A Midterm Report (1983); "Economic Experiments" (2:00 p.m. Bauer Forum)
Saturday,
November 14
Abram Shulsky, National Strategy Information Center; Thomas Willett, Horton professor of economics, CGU and CMC; co-editor, Exchange Rates, Trade, and the United States Economy (1985); "The Concept of Private Property in the History of Political Economy" (4:00 p.m.)
Monday,
November 16
Alfred Malabre, Jr., news editor, The Wall Street Journal; author, Understanding the Economy: For People Who Can't Stand Economics (1976) and Beyond Our Means (1987); "Within Our Means"
Tuesday,
November 17
Martin Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service professor of the history of modern Christianity, University of Chicago; senior editor, The Christian Century; author, Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America (1985) and Baptism (1962); "The Constitution and the Congregation"
Wednesday,
November 18
Kevin Starr, visiting scholar, Hoover Institution; author, Land's End (1979) and California! (1980); "Fascist/Communist Minesis: The Depression in California"
Tuesday,
November 19
Stanley Rosen, professor of political science, USC; author, Red Guard Factionalism and the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou (1982) and co-editor, On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System (1985); "The Impact of Reform on Youth Attitudes and Behavior in China"

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