Event: Jailing the Messenger: Leaks, Sources, and Freedom of the Press

Who: Ronald Dworkin, Vanessa Leggett, Anthony Lewis, Norman Pearlstine, Helen Zia; moderated by Jeff Greenfield.

Where: Engelman Hall, The Baruch Performing Arts Center: 55 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street, NYC

When: Tuesday, September 27, 7:00 p.m.

What: With Judith Miller in jail and subpoenas directed to journalists and news-gathering organizations on the rise, PEN American Center hosted a public program exploring the growing conflict over reportersí privilege. In a moderated discussion and debate, panelists Ronald Dworkin, Vanessa Leggett, Anthony Lewis, Norman Pearlstine, and Helen Zia examined the question of how to balance the great importance of nurturing a vigorous free press and ensuring public access to information against competing values such as the rights of criminal defendants, privacy rights, and national security.

Event: Is a Fairer Globalization Possible?

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and current President of Realizing Rights, Ethical Globalization Initiative; Kemal Dervis, head of United Nations Development Program; and Stephen Macedo, Professor of politics at Princeton University, will present their views on globalization. Globalization has created opportunities for people worldwide but has also increased inequality within and between nations.

The resultant poverty and despair are morally unacceptable. But what should be done? Gideon Rose, managing editor of Foreign Affairs will moderate the discussion.

Presented by the New York Society for Ethical Culture's Ethical Edge Series and the Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs' Global Policy Innovations

Gideon Rose is the Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine. He hastaught American foreign policy at Columbia and Princeton universities. In addition to his coverage of the war in Iraq for Slate, his recent publications include "Understanding the War on Terror" and "America and the World: Debating the New Shape of International Politics"

The New York Society for Ethical Culture is a humanistic religious and educational movement inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society. From the Society's earliest beginnings, we helped establish the NAACP, ACLU, the Legal Aid Society, the Visiting Nurse Service, the first US settlement house, the Prison Reform Task Force, free kindergarten, low cost housing and the Child Study Association.

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs mission is to inspire and guide ethical debate in the academic and policy communities. The Council convenes agenda-setting forums with international experts and opinion makers and creates educational opportunities and information resources for a worldwide audience of teachers and students, international affairs professionals, and concerned citizens and journalists. The Carnegie Council is independent and nonpartisan. The Global Policy Innovations Project, a core program of the Council, launched a "Fairer Globalization Series" in 2005 to promote alternative policies and governance structures for a more equitable globalization.

Event: Beating Around the Bush: An Evening of Satire

hosted by Seven Stories Press
October 6, 2005 at 7pm
Concert Hall of the New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 W. 64th Street, at Central Park West
New York, NY

with: Art Buchwald, Barry Crimmins, Paul Krassner, Kurt Vonnegut

With playwright/actor/poet Sarah Jones as master of ceremonies, and an introduction on American satire by Lewis Lapham, author of Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy.

Wise and incendiary political satire at its best hosted by Seven Stories Press, publisher of Crimmins' Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal, and upcoming: Buchwald's Beating Around the Bush, Krassner's One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist, and Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country.