• Who.

    JEFF FAGER
    CBS News, Chairman CBS News Division; Former Executive Producer 60 Minutes

    JUAN WILLIAMS
    Political Analyst Fox News

    PATRICK KABAT
    Fellow, Information Society Project at Yale Law School

    ROS ATKINS
    BBC's World Have Your Say

    MICHAEL SCHARF
    Case Western Reserve University, Professor of International Law, Director of Summer Institute for Global Justice

    GWEN IFILL
    PBS, Washington Week, Managing Editor & Moderator, NewsHour, Senior Correspondent

    LAUREN ONKEY
    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Vice President of Education and Public Programs

  • Who.

    Previous Winners Include:

    Andrew Young,
    Martin Luther King's Aide, U.N. Ambassador

    John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
    former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut and United States senator

    Antonin Gregory Scalia
    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

  • How.

    Download Guidelines for the 100th Aniversary Essay Contest.

  • Who.

    Check back soon!

    Speakers will be announced Fall 2011

  • You.

    Check back soon!

    Details will be announced January 2012
 
  • The City Club of Cleveland Presents: Conference on Free Speech
  • The City Club of Cleveland Presents: Citadel of Free Speech Award
  • The City Club of Cleveland Presents: 100th Aniversary Essay Contest
  • The City Club of Cleveland Presents: Encore Speaker Series
  • The City Club of Cleveland Presents: Centennial Gala Celebration
 

  • What.

    • Free Speech in the Age of the Internet
    • World Have Your Say: A Global Conversation on Free Speech in the Age of Terrorism
    • A Cleveland Conversation on Free Speech in the Age of Terrorism
    • Free Speech in the Political Arena
    • Free Speech in the Music Industry

  • What.

    The City Club of Cleveland established an award to recognize a nationally prominent figure who has contributed significantly to the advancement and preservation of free speech. The award recognizes the achievements of the recipient as well as highlights The City Club of Cleveland's continuing interest in and support of free speech. The Award is presented by the Board of Trustees of... More →

  • What.

    The right of free speech carries great weight and responsibility. Inspired and funded by our longest tenured members, Stanley and Hope Adelstein, the free speech essay competition engages our youngest constituents, as students from area high schools across the 7-county region (Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Erie, Portage, Medina and Summit) are invited to articulate a fresh perspective on... More →

  • What.

    Over the course of the past decade The City Club has had numerous local and national prominent figures speak from our podium. Throughout this celebratory year we will bring back a number of speakers from the past ten years who have made a notable impact at our podium. We'll hear what they now have to say on today's top issues.

  • What.

    The City Club 100th Anniversary will culminate with a Gala Celebration in October 18, 2012. The Power of Ideas² (which enhances the tradition started at our 75th Anniversary) is the theme of the event. Several prominent speakers will give short talks on topics related to free speech, current events or area of speaker expertise.

 

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Guest Bloggers

  • Beth Sebian

    The value of being well-informed

    When I first moved back home to Cleveland, I attended a City Club luncheon featuring a panel discussion about the development of downtown Cleveland. I was hooked. I had just moved from DC and was worried that I had left behind the luxury of exposure to big ideas that I had encountered in other cities. I learned that day that Cleveland is a place thriving with ideas and vision, and people hungry... More →

  • WIKILEAKS
    David Agnew
    Commentator, City Club

    At the Source

    As a (belated) prophylactic measure, the Obama administration has promulgated new computer security policies intended to forestall future leaks of classified information.   In light of the new policies and Espionage Act prosecutions of alleged leakers, we might well ask if the unauthorized disclosure window is that opened so swiftly is now beginning to close.  Seems unlikely, by the... More →

  • Will Hollingsworth

    Noise

    I posted last week about the idea of the signal-to-noise ratio in social media. What interests me about social media (which is a phrase I'm suspicious of, if only because Facebook is more a megaphone than a medium) is that it's the test kitchen for free speech in the age of information overload. Those of my generation, to maintain our sanities, must tune out more information than our parents ever... More →

  • Jameel Jaffer
    David Agnew
    Commentator, City Club

    Welcoming Jameel Jaffer to Cleveland

    Jameel Jaffer, a leading crusader against state secrecy, will join our two-part panel in here Cleveland next Monday.  He'll chat first with our panel on BBC's World Have Your Say, which will live-broadcast from our stage at the Allen Theater, and then with our Cleveland audience about Free Speech and the War on Terror.    We're very excited to have him.  Mr. Jaffer had a significant... More →

 

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