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June 8, 2010 The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights (Washington, D.C.) Stephen P. Halbrook, Nelson Lund
July 22, 2010 The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights (Oakland) Stephen P. Halbrook, Donald E. J. Kilmer, Jr.
June 7, 2016 The Secret to Restoring the American Dream George F. Gilder
February 21, 2008 The Secret to Making Poor Nations Rich Benjamin Powell, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, George B. N. Ayittey
July 12, 2016 The Road to Serfdom from Austria to America How Lessons Can be Learned Yaron Brook, John D. Chisholm, Federico N. Fernández, Barbara Kolm, Lawrence J. McQuillan, Randal O’Toole, Mary L. G. Theroux
October 17, 2006 The Reality and Legacy of the Iraq War Ivan Eland, Mark Danner
May 7, 2002 The Real Abraham Lincoln A Debate Harry V. Jaffa, Thomas J. DiLorenzo
March 9, 2004 The Promised Land of the Free Richard A. Epstein, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
March 27, 1996 The Outlook for China, Human Rights and the Laogai Gulag Independent Policy Forum Luncheon Honoring Harry Wu Hongda Harry Wu
April 28, 1999 The New Path for Africa Establishing Free-Market Societies George B. N. Ayittey
March 7, 2008 The New International Arms Race in Space And How to Avoid It Peter L. Hays, Theresa Hitchens, Jeff Kueter, Mike M. Moore
February 24, 1999 The New Betrayal of Black Freedom in America Shelby Steele
December 9, 1999 The Microsoft Monopoly Where to Go from Here? Peter W. Huber, Thomas M. Lenard, Stan J. Liebowitz
June 17, 2004 The Future of Iraq: Democracy or Quagmire? George Bisharat, Ivan Eland, James H. Noyes, Christopher Scheer
February 11, 1999 The Future of Freedom and High Technology Virginia I. Postrel
December 13, 2005 The Frankenfood Myth? Politics and Protests of the Biotech Revolution Henry I. Miller, Bruce N. Ames
October 5, 1995 The End of Racism New Prospects for a Color-Blind Society Dinesh J. D’Souza
October 28, 2004 The Empire Has No Clothes U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed Ivan Eland
September 5, 2001 The Drug War on Trial: Two Judges Speak Out James P. Gray, Vaughn Walker
January 27, 2005 The Death Penalty on Trial Bill Kurtis, Franklin E. Zimring
November 17, 1999 The Civil War Liberty and American Leviathan Henry E. Mayer, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
September 7, 2000 The American Revolution and the Legacy of Liberty Joyce O. Appleby, Hans Eicholz, Henry E. Mayer
November 23, 1999 The American Economy, 1935-47 Assessing Robert Higgs’ Pioneering Analysis of Government Policy Robert Higgs
December 6, 2006 The 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Awards and An Evening With Robert Higgs Thomas S. Szasz, Robert Higgs, Robert Spillane
June 8, 2004 Terrorism and Iraq What is the Nature of the Relationship?: A Debate Don Smith, Stephen Hayes, Walter Russell Mead, Ivan Eland
April 16, 1998 Technology Innovation Competitors, Predators and Antitrust Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stan J. Liebowitz, John E. Lopatka, Stephen E. Margolis, Janusz A. Ordover
April 29, 2020 Suspend California AB-5 Graham H. Walker, David J. Theroux, Williamson M. Evers
December 3, 1996 Stopping Violent Crime New Directions for Reduction and Prevention Arthur R. Miller, Bruce L. Benson, Erika Holzer, Wendy Kaminer, William I. Koch, Alan J. Lizotte, David B. Sentelle, Richard L. Thornburgh, Hubert Williams, Marvin E. Wolfgang
February 20, 2003 Solving America’s Public School Crisis Peter Brimelow, John D. Merrifield
October 3, 2001 Smarter Urban Growth Markets or Bureaucracy? Daniel B. Klein

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