Our monthly meetings are centered on an outstanding speaker, including candidates, politicians, issue specialists, government officials, and citizen activists. They address issues immediately important to us, from immigration and health care to national and local security, bike lanes, and horse carriages.
Michael B. Mukasey, of counsel to Debevoise & Plimpton, recently served as Attorney General of the United States, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. As Attorney General from November 2007 to January 2009, he oversaw the U.S. Department of Justice and advised on critical issues of domestic and international law. Judge Mukasey joined Debevoise as […]
Steve Forbes is Forbes Media Chairman and CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, where his editorials appear as, “Fact and Comment.” The company encompasses Forbes, ForbesLife, ForbesWoman and Forbes Asia magazines; the Web sites Forbes.com, Investopedia.com, RealClearPolitics.com, RealClearMarkets.com, RealClearSports.com, and Forbes.com Business & Finance Blog Network; and 10 international licensee editions. Forbes’ publications together reach […]
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has canvassed a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing and “racial” profiling, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, […]
LtCol Anthony (Tony) Shaffer (retired), is the President of the London Center for Policy Research, a New York Times bestselling author and CIA trained intelligence operations officer with 35 years of experience in global and national security. In his think-tank work he is an advisor to senior members of the White House, the Intelligence Community, […]
Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a columnist at the New York Post. She writes on urban economics and finance. Gelinas is a CFA charterholder and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington (2011). Gelinas has published analysis and […]
Scott W. Atlas, M.D. is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution. Dr. Atlas investigates the impact of government and the private sector on access, quality, pricing, and innovation in health care and is a frequent policy advisor to government and industry leaders in these areas. During the 2008, […]
Nicholas Wapshott is the Opinion Editor of Newsweek. He was formerly the editor of The Times Saturday edition as well as the founding editor of The Times Magazine. He the author of a number of books, including biographies of Margaret Thatcher and Carol Reed, and Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, published in […]
