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Speakers
YARON BROOK
Dr. Yaron Brook is the president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. As a recognized
expert on Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, he is interviewed extensively by the print, radio
and television media for the Objectivist position on current events and issues, such as the war in
Iraq, Internet control and censorship, and threats to freedom-of-speech rights. His recent media
appearances include TV interviews on Closing Bell (CNBC) and The O’Reilly Factor (Fox News Channel).
Dr Brook's previous service in Israeli Army Intelligence and years of extensive research have given
him expertise on the Middle East conflict and American foreign policy in that region. Universities and
community groups around the country have hosted his most recent speeches on the situation in the Middle
East, which include talks titled "The Moral Case for Supporting Israel" and "Why America Is Losing the
War on Terror."
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JOHN LEWIS
Dr. John Lewis is in the Department of History and Political Science at Ashland University, Ashland,
Ohio. He holds an Anthem Fellowship for Objectivist Scholarship, a PhD in classics from the
University of Cambridge and a BA in history from the University of Rhode Island. He has taught at
the University of London, and was a visiting scholar at Rice University and at Bowling Green State
University. Dr. Lewis is consulting editor of The Objective Standard, and has published in
numerous classical journals, and in Capitalism Magazine. He is the author of Solon the
Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens, and is now completing a book, "Nothing Less Than
Victory: Military Offense and the Lessons of History."
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DANIEL PIPES
Dr. Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum. He taught world history at the University of
Chicago, 1978–1982; history at Harvard University, 1983–1984; and policy and strategy at the Naval War
College, 1984–1986. He worked on the policy-planning staff at the State Department in 1983 and was
director of the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute for seven years before founding
the Middle East Forum in 1994.
Dr. Pipes is the author of twelve books, numerous articles and an active Web log. He is a columnist for
the New York Sun, and he appears weekly in Israel's Jerusalem Post, Italy's L'Opinione,
Spain's La Razón, and monthly in the Australian and Canada's Globe and Mail. His
Web site, DanielPipes.org, is the single most accessed Internet source of specialized information on the
Middle East and Islam. Dr. Pipes has appeared on ABC World News, CBS Reports, Crossfire,
Good Morning America, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, The O’Reilly Factor,
The Today Show, the BBC and Al-Jazeera.
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FLEMMING ROSE
Flemming Rose is a Danish journalist, author and the cultural editor at the Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten. He majored in Russian language and literature and spent eleven years as
the Moscow correspondent for the Danish newspapers Jyllands-Posten and Berlingske
Tidende, and three years as the Washington, D.C., correspondent for Berlingske Tidende.
In September 2005 Mr. Rose commissioned a series of cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad. He was
concerned about the tendency toward self-censorship in Europe and some Muslims' insistence on
special treatment of their religious sensitivities in the public domain, which he wanted to bring
forward for debate. The backlash from Muslims around the world caused an international crisis and
the Danish government experienced its worst foreign policy crisis since the Nazi occupation
during WW2. Flemming Rose currently resides in the United States.
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PETER SCHWARTZ
Peter Schwartz, author of The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America, is the
founding editor and publisher of The Intellectual Activist. Mr. Schwartz is the author of
Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty. He is also editor and contributing author of Ayn Rand’s
Return of the Primitive, and is a former chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ayn Rand
Institute.
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ROBERT SPENCER
Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, is a writer and researcher who has written six books,
seven monographs and well over a hundred articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism. His latest
book is The Truth About Muhammad (Regnery). He is also the author of the New York Times
bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery), Islam
Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World’s Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter) and Onward
Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery). |
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