LWR Global Issues 2022

Our 51st Year

Global Issues 2022
Lakewood Ranch

Lectures are held at Cornerstone Church 14306 Covenant Way and start at 3:30 pm

Click on title for lecture summary, click on speaker name for biography.

	Thursday
J A N	13	Stories That Never Made It Into Print: Backstairs at the White House Thomas DeFrank
	20	Making Peace in the Middle East Brian Hook
	27	Independence Corrupted: How America's Judges Really Make Their Decisions Charles Schudson
F E B	3	Can Europe Become French Again? Martin Walker
	10	How American Democracy Has Renewed Itself in the Past Jeremi Suri
	17	Reckoning With the Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Robert Jones
	24	New Hardline President Raisi and U.S.- Iran Relations Mohsen Milani
M A R	3	What Makes Vladimir Putin Tick? John Beyrle
	10	Can a Democratic America Compete with a Totalitarian China? Robert Lieber
	17	Domestic Extremism Peter Bergen
	24	Why America No Longer Gets Asia Evan Feigenbaum
	31	Like War: How Social Media Has Become Weaponized, and What We Need to Know About It Peter Singer