Past Forums
Helen Dragas
Helen Dragas, former Rector, University of Virginia, shared her views on opportunities for higher education in Virginia.
Phil Hirschkop
Hirschkop successfully argued the Loving vs. Virginia case before the Supreme Court in 1967, and many other monumental cases defending personal rights.
Sally Mott Freeman, Award-Winning Writer of The Jersey Brothers
The Jersey Brothers is an extraordinary, real-life adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II and their mad race to change history—and save one of the brothers captured by the Japanese. All Navy men, they end up...
• Sally Mott Freeman
• Phillip Jay Hirschkop
2016-2017
• Dennis Ross
• Bob McDonnell
• Helen E. Dragas
2015-2016
• Allen West
• Ann Compton
• Charles Mann
2014-2015
• Dr. Eben Alexander III
• Wes Moore
• Dick Vitale
2013-2014
• World War II
• Benjamin Carson M.D.
• Ashley Judd
2012-2013
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Stossel
• Larry Sabato
2011-2012
• Howard Fineman
• Scott Turow
• Mia Farrow
2010-2011
• Karl Rove
• Nancy Giles
• David Berman & Jon Wellner
2009-2010
• Juan Williams
• David Baldacci
• Dee Dee Myers
2008-2009
• Common Ground (Beckel & Thomas)
• Dave Barry
• Winston S. Churchill
2007-2008
• Mary Matalin and James Carville
• Richard “Dick” Marcinko
• John Feinstein
2006-2007
• Cokie Roberts
• Joseph J. Ellis
• Steve Wozniak
2005-2006
• George Stephanopoulos
• Christopher Gardner
• Michael Beschloss
2004-2005
• Erin Brockovich
• Mike Luckovich
• Cal Ripken, Jr.
2003-2004
• Tony Snow
• The God Squad
• Lesley Stahl
2002-2003
• Dr. Bob Arnot
• Edmund & Sylvia Morris
• Jeff Greenfield
• Frank Abagnale
2001-2002
• Ed Koch
• Frank DeFord
• Nina Totenberg
2000-2001
• Bob Woodward
• Alan Dershowitz
• Chris Buckley
1999-2000
• Helen Thomas
• Wolf Blitzer
• Arthur Golden
1998-1999
• Robert Klein
• Gail Sheehey
• David Gergen
• David Baldacci
1997-1998
• Harry Belafonte
• John Douglas
• Tom Wolfe
1996-1997
• Larry King
• P.J. O’Rourke
• Mario Cuomo
• Kinky Friedman
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