Join the Face to Face Speaker Forum’s Virtual Conversation on October 20

This message was sent on behalf of President Hatch.

Dear Wake Forest community,

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in the Face to Face Speaker Forum’s virtual conversation between two leading political commentators, Peggy Noonan and Eugene Robinson. This event, two weeks before the upcoming election, will feature a discussion about the history of the presidency and our democracy and how it appears to have evolved the election season. The conversation, moderated by Dean of the College Michele Gillespie, will take place at 7:30 p.m. EDT on October 20, with pre-programming starting at 7 p.m. EDT. It is free for all students, faculty and staff members. Please visit go.wfu.edu/facetoface to register and direct any questions about this event to facetoface@wfu.edu.

Peggy Noonan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Wall Street Journal, where her weekly column, “Declarations,” has run since 2000. She is also the bestselling author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, including “What I Saw at the Revolution” and “When Character Was King.” She is one of 10 historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” In her most recent release, “The Time of Our Lives,” Noonan chronicles her career in journalism, the Reagan White House and the political arena. In 2017, Noonan received the Pulitzer Prize for Political Commentary for her coverage of the 2016 presidential election.

Eugene Robinson uses his twice-weekly column in The Washington Post to pick American society apart and then put it back together again in unexpected and revelatory new ways. To do this job of demolition and reassembly, Robinson relies on a large and varied toolkit: energy, curiosity, elegant writing and the wide-ranging experience of a life that took him from childhood in the segregated South to the heights of American journalism. His remarkable storytelling ability has won him wide acclaim, most notably as the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his commentary on the 2008 presidential race.

No matter where you might be located this semester, I hope you will join this timely conversation. The Face to Face Speaker Forum was set to launch in person in the fall of 2020, but because of the ongoing pandemic and the continued risk of large gatherings, in-person programming has been rescheduled. The revised 2021 Face to Face Speaker Forum season schedule can be found here.

Sincerely,

Nathan O. Hatch
President