Scope and Contents Mark Galanter, Professor of Psychiatry, Chair of Dept. of Addiction Medicine, NYU School of Medicine; Esther Heinerman, Professor of Literature, Long Island University; Jerome D. Levin, Senior Fellow of the Wolfson Center for National Affairs, author of Theories of the Self. Whether anesthetized, repressed, or acted out, people in New York City are all living with the potentially devastating anxieties induced by the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. The important question...

Scope and Contents The Wolfson Center for National Affairs, in association with Harper's magazine and Seven Stories Press, presents a discussion of issues raised by Nat Hentoff in his new book The War On The Bill of Rights. Steven Brill, author of After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era; Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's; Nadine Strossen, President of the ACLU; and Kurt Vonnegut, author, join Nat...

Scope and Contents How does a democratic citizenry assess scientific research and debate that affects public policy? How do we temper our excitement and fears about discoveries and inventions that affect our personal health, the environments in which we live, and our most basic values with respect to privacy, social betterment, security and peace, etc.? How can lay people understand and make decisions about ethical and practical implications of scientific work? Where can we go for accessible information? In...

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Lecture by Hon. Cory A. Booker. Presented by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs in association with Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. [information on this event was found in Exhibitions and Public Programs, in Wolfson Center folder]

Inscription: Corey [sic] Booker / Sondra Farganis / 2-12-07 / 1 of 1 / orig.