| Jan. 5 | Judge Abraham Sofaer, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University The Threat of International Terrorism: A Search for Answers |
| Jan. 19 | Susan Estrich, Columnist, Political Advisor, Professor of Law & Political Science, University of Southern California Law Center Getting Away with Murder: Politics, Crimes, and the Rule of Law |
| February 2 | Dr. William Ratliff, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Who’s a Threat to the U.S. Now, Castro or the Embargo Lobby? |
| Feb. 16 | Linda Gradstein, NPR Correspondent in Israel; Knight Fellow, Stanford University Israel at Fifty: Maturity or Mid-Life Crisis? |
| March 2 | Adam Author, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, UC-Berkeley King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa |
| March 16 | Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine, UCSF Medical School; author of The Cigarette Papers, anti-smoking activist The War Against the Tobacco Industry: Are the Good Guys Finally Winning? |
| April 6 | Wesla Whitfield, song stylist, & the Mike Greensill Duo The American Songbook: The Music of Rodgers & Hart |
| April 22 | Denise Erickson, Professor of Art History, Cafada College Impressionists and Winter: Effet de Niege |
| May 4 | Gloria Steinem, Writer, Lecturer, Activist, Humanitarian Women at the Millennium |
| May 18 | Barry Kraft, Actor, Dramaturge, Shakespeare Scholar; Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland Why the Continuing Interest in Shakespeare? |
| June 1 | Helen Thonias, Dean of the White House Press Corps; White House Bureau Chief of United Press International Front Row at the White House |
