Past Speakers

2005
Leonard Pitts, Jr. Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist.

2003
Pat Buchanan, political commentator, former White House Press Secretary, and former presidential candidate

2002
Mark Shields, political columnist and commentator

2001
Jane Bryant Quinn, financial columnist

2000
Stephen Jay Gould, palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist

1999
Tony Snow, political columnist and TV commentator

1998
Mario Cuomo, former Governor and former presidential candidate