Seymour Hersh
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Thursday, April 3, 2008
7:30 pm, Laurie Auditorium

Free and open to the public

Reception following the lecture in the Dicke Art Building foyer

Seymour Hersh, who writes for The New Yorker, is considered one of the most controversial and insightful commentators on foreign policy in the U.S. today. Going beyond the headlines, Mr. Hersh reports on the core problems of ideology and personal intrique that drive so much of American foreign policy. In so doing, he has uncovered some of the most important news stories of our times, and in the process, shown America that power, and the exercising of that power on the international stage, comes with a price.

Underwritten by the William and Salomé Scanlan Foundation, the Maverick Lecture will be an annual lecture that honors the late Maury Maverick Jr., the legendary civil rights lawyer, former member of the Texas Legislature, and iconoclastic newspaper columnist. The lecture series will explore topics that defined Maverick’s place in American civic discourse.