Upcoming New America Events

All currently scheduled future New America events are listed below. Click on any event for more information. Want to know about our events as soon as they're scheduled? Subscribe to the Upcoming Events RSS feed using the orange icon at the bottom of this page, or sign up to receive notifications via email.

Shadow Elite

Please join New America in a conversation between Janine Wedel and Michael Lind about her new book Shadow Elite. Governments and administrations come and go, but not so a new breed of power brokers, who always seem to pop up just where the action is. Wearing different hats, they press their agendas in venue after venue. According to award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine Wedel, these are the "shadow elite," the prime movers in a vexing new system of power and influence. more
12/01/2009 - 12:15pm
12/01/2009 - 1:45pm

Inheriting the World

For nearly half a century, the Cold War dominated U.S. foreign policy. Encompassing some of America's greatest successes and failures, its legacy has shaped U.S. debates over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relations with Russia, China and Iran. What are the right and wrong lessons to take from America's long "twilight struggle"? And how has the reality of the Cold War been distorted in public memory in the years since? Join New America for a conversation with… more
12/02/2009 - 12:15pm
12/02/2009 - 1:45pm