Commonwealth Club
 

Location: SF Club Office

Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program, 7 p.m. book signing

Cost: $12 members, $18 non-members, $7 students w/ valid ID

Also know: Photo by Joe Schuyler.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11

Garry Wills:
The Extra-Constitutional Executive

Garry Wills, Historian; Author, The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Wills argues that the atomic bomb paved the way for presidential authority that has "enfeebled" Congress and the courts, and that reached its apex with George W. Bush. Wills will frame the postwar period in a new light in his aim to sound an alarm about a continued threat to our Constitution and the balance of power.

Will Durst
Will Durst
2/9/2010
I Just Sit Down and Remember: Artist Hilda Robinson in Conversation
I Just Sit Down and Remember: Artist Hilda Robinson in Conversation
2/19/2010
Robert Mnookin: Bargaining with the Devil: Negotiating Life's Most Challenging Conflicts
Robert Mnookin: Bargaining with the Devil: Negotiating Life's Most Challenging Conflicts
2/12/2010
Eve Ensler: I Am an Emotional Creature
Eve Ensler: I Am an Emotional Creature
2/16/2010
Same Sex Marriage: State vs. Fed
Same Sex Marriage: State vs. Fed
2/17/2010
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
2/18/2010
Bob Barr: James Madison and the Original Federalists - Where are they when we need them?
Bob Barr: James Madison and the Original Federalists - Where are they when we need them?
2/18/2010
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz
2/22/2010
UPCOMING EVENTS
2/9
After Copenhagen
Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist.
Will Durst
2/10
Azerbaijan: Central Asia's Non-OPEC Energy Option
2/11
Garry Wills: The Extra-Constitutional Executive
Alexandria Salon
2/12
Robert Mnookin: Bargaining with the Devil: Negotiating Life's Most Challenging Conflicts
Free To Love, Free To Heal
Fall in Love with SF - A City Connections Happy Hour
2/16
Portrait of Bhutan: A Club Travel Program
Eve Ensler: I Am an Emotional Creature
Meg Whitman: From Running eBay to Running California
2/17
What Baby Boomers Need to Know About Long-Term Care Insurance
Same Sex Marriage: State vs. Fed
2/18
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
Bob Barr: James Madison and the Original Federalists - Where are they when we need them?
2/19
I Just Sit Down and Remember: Artist Hilda Robinson in Conversation
California Media in Crisis: Who Will Hold California Institutions Accountable?
2/22
Middle East Discussion Group
Joseph Stiglitz
Socially Engaged Art and Global Politics
2/23
Free Speech, Private Speech, Government Speech
Geo-Engineering: Global Salvation or Ruin?
Jill Tarter - Director of the Center for SETI Research
2/24
LGBT Planning Meeting
Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others into Solving the Wrong Problems Precisely
The International Criminal Court: How is it doing? Should the U.S. join it?
2/25
Inside NATO: Ambassadors Ivo Daalder,Stephano Stefanini,Per Poulsen-Hansen
Chinese Medicine: A Vital Partner in American Health Care
Amartya Sen: The Search For Justice
Noah Alper - Founder of Noah's Bagels
3/1
"Snow" by Orhan Pamuk
Magic Theatre Virgin Play Series: SIX
Music: Can Philosophical Concepts Be Expressed Without Words?
Nuclear Tipping Point: Panel discussion and Short Film Screening
3/2
California Choices: Pathways to Reform
A Taste Of Brazil
3/3
Aama's Journey: A Pilgrimage Between Continents and Cultures
Crowdsourcing
3/4
Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston: How Successful Women Lead
3/8
Timothy Ferris: How Science Inspired Democracy In The Modern World
Governance in California: From Greatness to Gridlock in 50 Years
3/10
Chasing Molecules: The Promise of Green Chemistry
3/11
What is Shari'ah Law
Seth Shostak: Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute
3/12
Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World
3/13
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage - Hosts of "Mythbusters"
3/15
China 20/20: How Western Business Can-and Should-Influence Social and Political Change in China
3/16
James A. Baker III: The Ethical Imperative of America's Involvement on the World Stage
Renovating from Old to Green: A Homeowner's Fable
Holding On To Happiness: Three Steps That Transform Challenge Into Opportunity
3/17
State of Middle East Peacemaking
3/18
A. Barry Rand: Health and Financial Security
The Genius in All of Us
Our Energy Future
Steve Poizner
3/22
Extended Reaches of Mind
10 Sure-fire Communication Tools for Designers and Beyond
3/23
Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD): the New Cardiovascular Epidemic
Is Your God Green?
3/25
Preventing and Transforming Conflicts in Twenty Countries
3/29
Is It Time to Reform the U.S. System of Medical School Education?
Middle East Planning Meeting
Middle East Discussion Group
3/31
LGBT Planning Meeting
Keeping California's Schools Competitive: Can Today's Students Become Tomorrow's Leaders?
Electric Transmission: Enabling a Smart Grid
4/5
"The Turn of the Screw"
Extinction or Emigration: The Human Future in Space
Recession or Reset? The Way Forward
4/6
Options, Directions and Resources
4/7
Gavin Newsom: San Francisco's Mayor in Conversation
Face To Face : How To Work Any Room
4/8
Traditional Chinese Medicine Series Part 2: Food as Medicine
Dr. Louann Brizendine - Author of "The Female Brain" and "The Male Brain"
4/9
Mendocino & Anderson Valley Get-Away
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