E. J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, a regular political analyst on National Public Radio, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University.

Please join Washington Post reporter Natalie Hopkinson and freelance journalist Natalie Y. Moore when they visit North Gate Hall to discuss their new book, "Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation."

An evening with Ben Wildavsky, Education editor for U.S. News & World Report. Wildavsky will be joined in conversation with David Kirp, Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy and Susan Rasky, Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism.

New Yorker architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, will discuss the future of the World Trade Center site. Goldberger became Dean of the Parsons School of Design in New York City in July 2004.

What does empathy have to do with inequality? Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor in the Clinton era and a distinguished visiting professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, will discuss how socio-economic inequality contributes to frayed social bonds and what we can do about it.