| September 21 | Henry Miller, MD, Founding Director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Biotechnology, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution Designer Genes for Agriculture and Food Production |
| October 5 | James Bettinger, Director of the John S. Knight Fellows for Professional Journalists at Stanford University and former Columnist for the San Jose Mercury-News Philip Davis, Julia Powell, Panel discussion: The News Media and the 2004 Presidential Election |
| October 19 | George Packer, Staff Writer for The New Yorker, Author of Blood of the Liberals How Does American Foreign Policy Determine a Democratic World? |
| November 2 | Niall Ferguson, Noted Author and Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University The United States: An Empire in Search of an Emperor |
| November 16 | John Scharffenberger, Entrepreneur, Wine Maker, and Chocolatier A Cultural Tasting of Chocolate |
| December 7 | Andy Doty, Retired from Stanford University as Director of Community Relations Backwards Into Battle: A Tail Gunner’s Journey in World War II |
| January 4 | Victor Hanson, Professor of Classics at California State University, Fresno, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Fellow in California Studies at the Claremont Institute Mexifornia: A frank talk about “Mexifornia” |
| January 18 | Salim Yaqub, Professor of History at the University of Chicago, Specialist in U.S.-Arab Relations Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East |
