Richard Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, and the author of nearly 40 books on an astonishing array of topics, including economics, jurisprudence, aging, terrorism and sex. He turns what The New York Times calls “his indefatigable intellect” to the ongoing economic crisis and the efforts of the “cumbersome, clotted, ­competence-­challenged” American system of government to respond to it.

7:00 p.m., Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel
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