Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum
A distinctive
feature of social and
cultural life at CMC
Featured Athenaeum Speakers
2019
Wendy Sherman
Rabia Chaudry
Mark Juergensmeyer
Joyce Carol Oates
Stephen Moore
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein
Symone Sanders
2018
Jeffrey Toobin
Lynn Novick
N. Gregory Mankiw
David Frum
Alice Sebold
William Jelani Cobb
Jonathan Haidt
Paul Bloom
Richard Blanco
Jonah Goldberg
Erwin Chemerinsky
George Will
2017
Cornell William Brooks
Arthur Brooks
Karl Eikenberry
Robert Sapolsky
John Yoo
Heather Mac Donald
Neel Kashkari
Robert Wright
Barry Sanchez
Christian Rudder
Lisa Randall
Hilton Als
2016
W. Kamau Bell
Randall Kennedy
Thomas Sanderson
Peter Wagner
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
John Prendergast
Nontomi Naomi Tutu
William Kristol/Peter Thiel
Eddie Huang
Yolo Akili Robinson
Andrew Walder
Rukmini Callimachi
2015
Paul Henderson
Michael Barone
Richard Sander
Jon. Rosenberg '83 P'14
Noah Feldman
Robert Ford
Wajahat Ali
Meg Falley/Olivia Gatwood
Nina Tandon
David Sedaris
Laverne Cox
2014
Eve Ensler
Eric Schmidt/Jared Cohen
Billie Jean King
Michael McFaul
Charles Murray
Janet Mock
Anis Mojgani
Charles Ogletree, Jr.
Andrew Sullivan
William Deresiewicz
2013
Jonathan Franzen
Joyce Carol Oates
Phillip Zimbardo
Stanley McChrystal
Rebecca Skloot
Lizz Winstead
Nate Silver
Gloria Allred
Jackson Katz
Shirin Ebadi
Zadie Smith
2012
Fran Lebowitz
Dan Savage
Ray Kurzweil
Robert Gates
Hedrick Smith
Tom Daschle
Chris Hughes
Anita Hill
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
2011
Francis Fukuyama
Paul Farmer
Robert Reich
Henry Kravis '67
Daniel Kahneham
Condoleezza Rice
BD Wong
2010
Jesse Jackson
Helen Prejean
Sapphire
Mitt Romney
David Oliver Relin
Michael Eisner
Jhumpa Lahiri
William Kristol
Erwin Chemerinsky
Andrew Ross Sorkin
2009
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Connie Rice
Mariachi Divas
Roxana Saberi
Steven Levitt
Fareed Zakaria
Philip Glass
RuPaul Charles
W.S. Merwin
2008
Julian Bond
Ishmael Beah
David Gergen
David Brooks
Mort Sahl
Shirin Ebadi
Karl Rove
Amos Oz
James Fallows
Henry Kravis '67
Michael Chertoff
Maureen Dowd
2007
Antonin Scalia
Thomas Friedman
Mariachi Divas
William Jefferson Clinton
Gore Vidal
Orhan Pamuk
Bono
William Kristol
Anderson Cooper
Billy Collins
2006
Al Sharpton, Jr.
Temple Grandin
Salman Rushdie
George Will
Wangari Maathai
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ehud Barak
Reza Aslan
Bernard Lewis
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
2005
Paul Rusesabagina
Brian Greene
Dolores Huerta
Carol Moseley Braun
L. Paul Bremer III
James Q. Wilson
Bobby Seale
Joseph Wilson IV
James A. Baker III
2004
Desmond Tutu
Shelby Steele P'96
Peggy Noonan
Ira Glass
Cornel West
Capitol Steps
Seymour Hersh
Paul Krugman
Phil Gramm
Mariachi Divas
Jared Diamond
Robert Lanza
Manning Marable
Niall Ferguson
2003
Mary Robinson
Paul Volcker
Michael Cunningham
bell hooks
Eric Schlosser
William Bennett
Janet Reno
David Broder
Tony Kushner
2002
Aaron McGruder
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
John Singleton
Michael Dyson
David Sedaris
Stuart Eizenstat
Spike Lee
Newt Gingrich
Ann Crittenden
Cathy Guisewite
Samuel Huntington
2001
John Wooden
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Steven Pinker
Vaclav Klaus
Anne Lamott
P.J. O'Rourke
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Harlan Ellison
Vincent Bugliosi
Robert Pinsky
Michael Ondaatje
Anthony Lake
Harold Koh
2000
Amiri Baraka
Reggie Jackson
Art Spiegelman
Kenneth Starr
Daniel Schorr
Capitol Steps
Anna Quindlen
Pat Buchanan
George Mitchell, Jr.
Peter Drucker
Jared Diamond
Francis Fukuyama
Robert Mundell
1999
Robert Reich
Judy Chicago
Steve Forbes
A. Scott Berg
Oscar Arias
Mort Sahl
Rudy Ruettiger
Martin Marty
Barbara Ehrenreich
W.S. Merwin
1998
Michael Dukakis
George Plimpton
Oliver Sacks
Adrienne Rich
Edward Albee
Tony Kushner
Arianna Huffington
Jamling Norgay
David McCullough
Elie Wiesel
Czeslaw Milosz
Phillip Zimbardo
Paul Gigot
Dennis Prager
Seamus Heany
1997
Constance Baker Motley
James Earl Jones
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ward Connerly
Jack Kemp
Ian Wilmut
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt
Henry Kravis '67
James Q. Wilson
A. Scott Berg
John Keegan
John Searle
1996
Ralph Reed
Sergi Khruschev
Kevin Phillips
Martin Marty
David McCullough
Walter Wriston
Milton Friedman
Paul Krugman
Gary Hall
Richard Rodriguez
David Brower
Dinesh D’Souza
Andrei Codrescu
1995
Marian Wright Edelman
Danny Glover
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Henry Kravis '67
Kevin Phillips
Jeffrey Sachs
Czeslaw Milosz
Sarah Weddington
David Eisenhower
Edward James Olmos
Harry Wu
Donald Regan
Lynne Cheney
Susan Faludi
Rita Dove
Dith Pran
Walter Mosley
1994
John McPhee
Robert Stone
Shelby Steele P'96
Thomas Keneally
Cornel West
Luis Valdez
BD Wong
Doris Lessing
1993
Kwame Ture
Sarah Weddington
Seamus Heaney
Joseph Brodsky
John Edgar Wideman
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Morris Dees, Jr.
Henry Kravis '67
Ken Kesey
1992
Herbert Simon
Ken Kesey
Peter Drucker
Myrlie Evers
Czeslaw Milosz
Phillip Zimbardo
Richard Rodriguez
Elliot Aronson
James Q. Wilson
Susan Estrich
Edwin Meese III
Sandra Bem
1991
Julian Bond
Francis Fukuyama
Susan Butcher
John Densmore
Kathleen Brown
Marc Reisner
Henry Kravis '67
Ray Bradbury
Dinesh D'Souza
Tim O’Brien
1990
James Farmer
Dianne Fienstein
John Kenneth Galbraith
Helen Caldicot
Shelby Steele
Galen Rowell
Cornel West
Czeslaw Milosz
Eleanor Smeal
Barry Rand
Jean Kilbourne
Susan Estrich
William F. Buckley, Jr.
1989
Jesse Jackson
William Styron
Carlos Fuentes
Ray Bradbury
Ron Kovic
T. Boone Pickens
Henry Kravis '67
Nien Cheng
Seymour Hersh
Frances Fitzgerald
Stanley Karnow
Neil Sheehan
1988
Henry Kravis '67
Norman Cousins
Bruce Babbit
Pat Schroeder
Simon Wiesenthal
Pierre Salinger
Elie Wiesel
Peter Drucker
Allan Bloom
Richard Wilbur
David Dreier '75
Roger Mahoney
Robert Gallo
1987
Allan Bloom
John Irving
Dith Pran
Chaim Potok
Don King
George Deukmejian
Lee Hamilton
Martin Marty
1986
Joyce Carol Oates
Milton Friedman
Kurt Vonnegut
Helen Thomas
1985
Kurt Waldheim
Peter Drucker
Elie Wiesel
Daniel Boorstin
Jonathan Kozol
Maxine Hong Kingston
Stansfield Turner
1984
Bruno Bettleheim
Elie Wiesel
Eugene McCarthy
Myrlie Evers
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Mickey Kantor
Arthur Schawlow
1983
Anne Rice
Stan Rice
Follow the Athenaeum
Unless otherwise noted, lunch begins at 11:45 a.m.; speaker presentations begin at 12:15 p.m.
Evening receptions begin at 5:30 p.m.; dinner is served at 6 p.m.; speaker presentations begin at 6:45 p.m.