Center of the American Experiment

Center of the American Experiment 2007 Fall Briefing with William Kristol
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

7:30 p.m.

Pantages Theatre
Minneapolis

Host Seating - $2,500
■ Seating for 10 guests
■ 4 guests to the Sponsor Reception, which includes a formal photo with Bill Kristol
■ Printed Recognition

Benefactor Seating - $1,000
■ Seating for 10 guests
■ 2 guests to the Sponsor Reception, which includes a formal photo with Bill Kristol
■ Printed Recognition

General Seating - $35 / Seat

Few public intellectuals in recent decades have made as many importantand varied contributions as William Kristol.

He served as chief of staff to Education Secretary Bill Bennett during the Reagan administration, and then again to Vice President Dan Quayle during the first Bush administration.

As head of the Project for the Republican Future, he led the way in defeating the Clinton administration's government-laden health care plan (a.k.a. "HillaryCare") when many on the right thought the cause was lost. He then was a key strategist in enormous conservative victories in 1994.

A year later, in 1995, he was the founding editor of The Weekly Standard, which overnight became a remarkably influential voice. It's a job he still holds.

And among television's "talking heads" (the term is used affectionately), he is one of the most incisive, as witness his regular appearances on "FOX News Sunday."

A Harvard-trained political scientist, Dr. Kristol's career surely would have taken a more constrained route if, as a newly minted academic, he had accepted an offer to teach at the University of Minnesota. With all due respect to the "U," the nation has been well-served by his branching out.

Bill Kristol keynoted American Experiment's 1996 Annual Dinner. Almost a dozen years later, we will be honored to welcome him back to keynote our 2007 Fall Briefing, when he talks about "The New World."

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12 South 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

7:30 p.m.

Pantages Theatre
Minneapolis

Press Release: A Kitchen Table Conversation About Minneapolis and Its Future
Source: Center of the American Experiment
Moderated by Mitch Pearlstein
Center of the American Experiment
Directions

Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Hilton Minneapolis
1001 Marquette Avenue South
Minneapolis

Peter Bell
Chairman, Metropolitan Council

Gary Cunningham
Vice President, Northwest Area Foundation

R. T. Rybak
Mayor of Minneapolis

Historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead is credited with drawing a very useful distinction between "conference table conversations" and "kitchen table conversations." In severe shorthand, the former focus mostly on politics and policies, while the latter expand to include critical questions of culture, values, faith, and personal responsibility.

Please join us for a kitchen table conversation at which three of Minneapolis' most insightful leaders talk deeply about their city, especially about its young people, many of whom are flying, but far too many of whom are drowning.

Lunch will be served, of course.

American Experiment Members: $25
Non-Members: $30

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https://www.americanexperiment.org/register.php
or contact Peter Zeller at Peter.Zeller@AmericanExperiment.org

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Center of the American Experiment
12 South 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 338-3605 - (612) 338-3621