Upcoming Speakers
Greg Lukianoff
DATE: Thursday, October 8, 2026
On Thursday, October 8 we are proud to be hosting New York Times best-selling author, lawyer, free speech warrior, and someone who has appeared on CNN, Fox News, CBS News, The Today Show and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher—Mr. Greg Lukianoff.
Greg is the CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and has co-authored The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure with Jonathan Haidt, and its follow-up, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All — But There Is a Solution with Rikki Schlott. Most recently, he co-authored The War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech — And Why They Fail with Nadine Strossen.
His musings have appeared in the LA Daily Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, National Review and, most recently, The Free Press. With antisemitism on the rise and ICE protests proliferating there is no better person/scholar than Greg Lukianoff to help us understand the contours of free speech at a time when it matters most!
Past Speakers
Dan Walters
CA Politics, Past, Present & Future
February 5, 2026
Dan Walters is the most decorated and widely syndicated columnist in California history. For decades, he has offered his analysis concerning CA’s political, economic, and social trends. For the past eight years his sometimes-controversial insights have been published in CalMatters. His articles have been carried in the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine and he has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and Capital Public Radio. Dan is a provocative political centrist who brings thoughtful insight to each one of his articles. Mr. Walters is also the author or co-author of two books, “The New California: Facing the 21st Century” and “The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento.”