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Major Issues Lecture
The Major Issues Lectures are held in the Myers Convocation Center at Ashland University. Tickets are $20 or $160 for a table of eight. Call 877-289-5411 for reservations.
Upcoming Speakers
Previous Speakers
Amity Shlaes
Topic: How 1936 Gave Us 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Allan Greenberg
Topic: Architecture and Democracy
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Tim Goeglein
Topic: A Perspective from the White House
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Helen Krieble
Topic: How Many Bureaucrats Does It Take to Control the Border?
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Jay Nordlinger
Topic: This President and the Next
Friday, October 26, 2007
Jim Jordan
Topic: Washington Update
Monday, September 24, 2007
Kathleen Parker
Topic: Media Elites v. Ordinary Americans
Friday, April 13, 2007
Josiah Bunting
Topic: The Politics of Military Strategy:
World War II
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Jack Hafer
Topic: Using Films to Change the World
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
David Brennan
Topic: A 21st Century Education from the Perspective of an Entrepreneur
Friday, December 8, 2006
Jack Miller
Topic: A Businessman Looks at Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Ralph Regula
Topic: What We Do Today is Our Vision for Tomorrow: America’s Challenge in the New World
Monday, September 11, 2006
G. William Benz
Topic: The Art and Science of Decision-Making: The Essence of Leadership
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Lamar Alexander
Topic: Keeping the Teaching of American History in its Rightful Place in Our Schools
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Alan K. Simpson
Topic: Politics as a Contact Sport
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Bob Taft
Topic: Ohio Means Business: Flourishing in a Flat World
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Steven Hayward
Topic: Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Michael Ramirez
Topic: Journalism, Citizen Politics in a New World Order
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Peter Schramm, Adam Carrington, James Kresge
Topic: Interning for Bush-Cheney ’04
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Bill Sammon
Topic: Misunderestimated: The Historic Presidency of George W. Bush
Monday, February 14, 2005
Bill Harris
Topic: The State of the State’s Economy
Monday, January 24, 2005
Peter Kirsanow
Topic: Racial Rebellion: The End of the Victim/Grievance Movement
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Ramesh Ponnuru
Topic: The Stakes in the Election
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Robert Alt
Topic: Democracy in Iraq: A First Hand Account of Regime Change
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Bruce Cole
Topic: Restoring America’s Memory
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Carnes Lord
Topic: American Leadership and Statecraft in the 21st Century
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Michael G. Oxley
Topic: America on the Rebound: The Resilience of the U.S. Economy
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Edwin Meese
Topic: Homeland Security and Civil Liberties
Thursday, November 6, 2003
George Voinovich
Topic: Federal Work Force Reform: Improving the Delivery of Government Services to Citizens and Taxpayers
Monday, October 13, 2003
J. Kenneth Blackwell
Topic: Religious Liberty: The Most Precious of our Liberties
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Victor Davis Hanson
Topic: Terrorism
Friday, March 28, 2003
Richard Vedder
Topic: The American Economy: Past, Present and Future
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Robert Novak
Topic: A Washington Overview
Thursday, January 23, 2003
Eloise Anderson
Topic: Social Policy and Dependency
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Jonah Goldberg
Topic: Conservatism After 9/11
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
Peter W. Schramm
Topic: Fighting for Freedom’s Home
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Alan Reynolds
Topic: Supply-Side Economics After 30 Years
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Daniel Pipes
Topic: Arab-Israeli Diplomacy—What Went Wrong
Monday, February 11, 2002
Michael S. Joyce
Topic: The New Science of Public Administration: Faith Works
Tuesday, December 4, 2001
Steven Hayward
Topic: Ronald Reagan’s Lengthening Shadow
Thursday, November 8, 2001
Eugene W. Hickok
Topic: Is There a Crisis in Education?
Tuesday, October 2, 2001
Stephen Moore
Topic: The State of the Economy
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Kathleen Parker
Topic: The New American Family: What Was Wrong with the Old One?
Monday, March 26, 2001
Walter Berns
Topic: The Electoral College
Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Rich Lowry
Topic: The New American Man: Who is He? What Does He Portend?
Tuesday, December 5, 2000
Fred Barnes
Topic: The New Political Era in Washington
Thursday, November 16, 2000
John Fund
Topic: Elections 2000 and Voter Fraud
Thursday, October 19, 2000
Stephen Black
Topic: Disarming Iraq: Technical Success, Political Failure
Wednesday, April 12, 2000
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Topic: The Future of Marriage
Tuesday, March 28, 2000
Jim Petro
Topic: Restoring Public Trust
Wednesday, February 16, 2000
David Schippers
Topic: Impeachment from the Inside
Wednesday, December 8, 1999
Kate O’Beirne
Topic: What Happened to the Republican Revolution
Wednesday, November 17, 1999
Lee Edwards
Topic: The Conservative Revolution: The Movement that Remade America
Thursday, October 14, 1999
Pat Sajak
Topic: Media: Playing Games with Accuracy
Monday, June 7, 1999
William McGurn
Topic: American the Global
Monday, April 19, 1999
Edwin Meese III
Topic: The Leadership of Ronald Reagan
Thursday, March 25, 1999
John J. Miller
Topic: The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism Has Undermined America’s Assimilation Ethic
Tuesday, December 1, 1998
William Kristol
Topic: The Conservative Future
Tuesday, November 10, 1998
Abigail Thernstrom
Topic: America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible
Friday, September 18, 1998
David L. Brennan
Topic: Hope for Ohio’s Children
Tuesday, April 28, 1998
Thomas Carroll
Topic: Entrepreneurial Answers to the Educational Dilemma
Wednesday, March 25, 1998
Gerald A. Reynolds
Topic: School Choice
Monday, February 23, 1998
David Tucker
Topic: Fighting Barbarians
Monday, December 1, 1997
Robert Kagan
Topic: The Case for a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy
Tuesday, November 4, 1997
Walter A. McDougall
Topic: Promised Land or Crusader State? The Third American Century
Monday, October 6, 1997
Larry Arnn
Topic: Restoring Constitutional Government
Monday, April 14, 1997
David Zanotti
Topic: Who Will Win in 2000?
Tuesday, March 25, 1997
Edward J. Feulner, Jr.
Topic: Making It Happen: Institutions That Have Made the Conservative Revolution
Tuesday, February 25, 1997
David Broder
Topic: Politics for the New Century
Monday, December 16, 1996
Peter W. Schramm
Topic: The GOP’s Missed Opportunity
Thursday, October 17, 1996
John O’Sullivan
Topic: Will the U.S. Survive Until 2084?
Wednesday, September 4, 1996
Marvin Olasky
Topic: Renewing American Compassion
Tuesday, April 30, 1996
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Topic: The Re-Moralization of Society
Thursday, March 21, 1996
David Blankenhorn
Topic: The Possibility of Civil Society
Thursday, March 7, 1996
J. Kenneth Blackwell
Topic: Government Reform: Shrinking Government, Controlling Taxes, Reducing Spending and Devolution
Wednesday, November 15, 1995
Nancy Hollister
Topic: Decision Time: How Ohio Can Succeed Under Real Federalism
Monday, October 30, 1995
Bob Taft
Topic: The Challenge Ahead—Shaping Government for the 21st Century
Wednesday, September 13, 1995
John Engler
Topic: The Michigan Miracle
Tuesday, May 2, 1995
Tony Snow
Topic: Federalism: A View from the States
Wednesday, April 12, 1995
Dan Quayle
Topic: Standing Firm
Monday, February 13, 1995
Linda Chavez
Topic: A Divided Nation: What Does America’s Future Hold?
Wednesday, November 9, 1994
Bill Zeliff
Topic: Reforming Congress from A to Z
Monday, October 17, 1994
Newt Gingrich
Topic: Renewing American Civilization
Monday, April 18, 1994
Mona Charen
Topic: Bill Clinton and Comtemporary Culture: Critic or Mirror Image?
Tuesday, March 22, 1994
Martin Anderson
Topic: Domestic Policy Prospects for 1994
Monday, February 28, 1994
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Topic: Reflections on Current Contentions
Wednesday, December 1, 1993
Bruce Herschensohn
Topic: The End of Economic Dishonesty by a Balanced Budget Flat Tax Rate
Tuesday, November 16, 1993
William J. Bennett
Topic: In Defense of Western Civilization
Friday, October 22, 1993
Joseph Sobran
Topic: The Media: Handmaids of Big Government
Friday, April 23, 1993
S. Robert Lichter
Topic: Is There a Liberal Bias in the Media?
Wednesday, March 24, 1993
Michael Medved
Topic: Hollywood and the Three Lies
Thursday, February 25, 1993
Lyn Nofziger
Topic: Predictions: The Consequences of Four Years of Bill Clinton
Thursday, December 3, 1992
Fred Barnes
Topic: Results: Who Won and Why?
Wednesday, November 11, 1992
Ed Rollins
Topic: Politics 92: Who’s Running and Why?
Wednesday, October 7, 1992
Lynne V. Cheney
Topic: Academic Freedom
Wednesday, April 1, 1992
Dinesh D’Souza
Topic: Illiberal Education: Political Correctness and the College Experience
Tuesday, March 3, 1992
Chester Finn
Topic: Why are People Beating Up on Higher Education?
Friday, February 7, 1992
Rita Kramer
Topic: The Education of Teachers
Thursday, December 12, 1991
Pete du Pont
Topic: Money and Education
Thursday, October 31, 1991
Denis P. Doyle
Topic: The Relation of Business and the Schools
Monday, October 7, 1991
Dick Armey
Topic: World Economy
Monday, April 22, 1991
Richard W. Rahn
Topic: The Government’s Role in a Capitalist Society
Tuesday, March 12, 1991
Lucille Ford
Topic: An Economic Update
Wednesday, February 13, 1991
Mike DeWine
Topic: Congressional Reform
Thursday, December 13, 1990
Norman Ornstein
Topic: Congress: A Deliberative Body or a Bureaucracy?
Thursday, October 25, 1990
Philip M. Crane
Topic: Congress: Is it Working?
Thursday, October 11, 1990
William E. Brock
Topic: The Impact of East Bloc Reform on International Trade
Tuesday, April 10, 1990
Mark Falcoff
Topic: Latin America After the Cold War
Thursday, March 15, 1990
Walter Raymond, Jr.
Topic: Eastern Europe Update
Thursday, February 15, 1990
Winston Lord
Topic: China’s Big Chill
Tuesday, December 12, 1989
John Lenczowski
Topic: Reform in the Soviet Union: Myth and Reality
Wednesday, November 8, 1989
Alexander Haig
Topic: A Perspective on the Contemporary International Environment
Tuesday, October 10, 1989
Richard McCormack
Topic: What American Foreign Policy Should Be in the Years Ahead
Tuesday, April 25, 1989
Constantine Menges
Topic: The Future of Soviet Foreign Policy
Tuesday, April 4, 1989
Alan Keyes
Topic: The United Nations and American Foreign Policy
Thursday, March 9, 1989
James Cannon
Topic: The Bush Administration: Prospects and Perils
Wednesday, December 7, 1988
Richard Richards
Topic: The 1988 Election: A Republican Perspective
Thursday, October 13, 1988
John C. White
Topic: The 1988 Election: A Democratic Perspective
Wednesday, September 21, 1988
David Westrate
Topic: Law Enforcement
Wednesday, April 13, 1988
Stephen Markman
Topic: State of the Judiciary
Tuesday, March 29, 1988
Rudolph Guiliani
Topic: Litigation from a Prosecutor’s Perspective
Wednesday, February 10, 1988
J. William Middendorf II
Tuesday, December 1, 1987
John Gavin
Topic: The Political Future of the Central American Nations
Monday, November 2, 1987
Elliot Abrams
Topic: The Reagan Doctrine in Central America and the Caribbean Basin
Tuesday, October 20, 1987
Alfonso Robelo Callejas
Topic: The Struggle in Nicaragua
Monday, October 5, 1987
Dinesh d’Souza
Topic: Who Are the Media?
Thursday, April 2, 1987
Robert Novak
Topic: Media Responsibility in a Democracy
Wednesday, March 4, 1987
Ronald Zeigler
Topic: The Relationship Between Government and the Media
Tuesday, February 17, 1987
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Topic: Media Responsibility vs. National Security
Tuesday, December 16, 1986
Malcolm Wallop
Topic: The Role of Congress in Intelligence
Tuesday, November 11, 1986
William Casey
Topic: The Status of U.S. Intelligence in the U.S. Today
Monday, October 27, 1986
Ray S. Cline
Topic: A Historical Perspective on American Intelligence
Tuesday, September 16, 1986
William A. Rusher
Friday, April 4, 1986
Richard Shultz, Jr.
Topic: Terrorism: Active Aggression?
Thursday, March 20, 1986
Abraham Miller
Topic: Terrorism and Hostage Negotiations
Tuesday, February 25, 1986
Charles Rice
Topic: Politics and Religion: The Constitutional Aspects
Monday, November 4, 1985
Cal Thomas
Topic: Should the Church be in Politics?
Monday, October 7, 1985
Russell Kirk
Wednesday, September 18, 1985
Charles Greenleaf, Jr.
Topic: The Importance of the Pacific Basin Nations
Thursday, February 21, 1985
Danny Boggs
Topic: The Two Party System
Thursday, December 13, 1984
F. Clifton White
Topic: The ’84 Election: What It Means
Tuesday, November 27, 1984
Jill Knight
Topic: British Trade Unions: Impact on Politics and the Economy
Tuesday, October 2, 1984
Judge Lee Loevinger
Topic: Making Washington Work
Monday, April 16, 1984
Yale Brozen
Topic: Politics vs. Prosperity and Freedom
Wednesday, March 28, 1984
Alvin Rubushka
Topic: Prospects for Tax Reform
Wednesday, February 15, 1984
Lyn Nofziger
Topic: Campaign Strategy, 1984
Monday, December 12, 1983
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Topic: U.S. Foreign Policy and the U.N.
Friday, November 18, 1983
Walter E. Williams
Topic: Government Intervention and Individual Freedom
Tuesday, September 27, 1983
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