2/12/15 Peter Diamandis, CEO of X Prize, talks to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about why taking risks is crucial to the American project.

1/21/15 Former JPL Director Dr Ed Stone talks to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about the Voyager spacecrafts’ discoveries of volcanoes, oceans and geysers on other planets.

11/18/13 Elon Musk tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council how humans could get to Mars, and live there under a transparent dome.

3/20/14 Senator John McCain talks to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about why the US – and the Republican Party – needs immigration reform.

11/18/13 Elon Musk tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council why the world is great – and why newspapers look for the worst.

3/16/14 General Stanley McChrystal talks to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on leadership – how the US Special Forces decentralized decision-making while centralizing information.

3/20/14 Senator John McCain tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council the US is “the indispensable nation” and ‘if we don’t lead, who will?”

11/18/13 Elon Musk tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council why he didn’t put a coat hook or a reading light in the Tesla Model S – and what his kids thought!

1/30/14 Defense Secretary Robert Gates talks to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about his constant fights with the “insulting, incompetent, hypocritical, rude, bullying, parochial, egotistical, think-skinned” Congress

2/12/15 Peter Diamandis, CEO of X Prize, tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council why he fears government over-regulation will stifle innovation.