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Code-Breaking in World War II
12/11/2022
Robert Sanford

Presentation from the Friendly House by Robert Sanford who discusses code-breaking, the Enigma Machine, Germany’s encoding system, and the Japanese Navy codes. Robert has long been interested in World War II. As a young man, he read Churchill’s six-volume history of World War II. He joined HGP in 1998 and served as emcee for seven years. He wrote the history of our chapter. 

The Ku Klux Klan and Modern Culture Wars
11/27/2022
David Horowitz

Presentation from the Friendly House by David Horowitz who explores the ethnocentric and populist appeal of the 1920s Ku Klan Klan, a movement focusing on the perceived threat of recent immigrants. The discussion includes an analysis of the rhetoric of Klan leader Hiram Wesley Evans who pictured Protestant nationalists as helpless before the onslaught of immigrants. Horowitz has taught U. S. Cultural and Political History at Portland State University since 1968. He has many publications. He is the author of  “Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s”.

Rebooting Capitalism
11/20/2022
Anthony Biglan

Presentation by Anthony Biglan. Millions of Americans and people around the world are oppressed. We can -- we must -- reform society so that every sector works for everyone. Mr. Biglan is Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute and author of the book “Rebooting Capitalism” which explains how advocacy for free market economics over the past fifty years took us where we didn’t want to go. 

Post Mortem on 2022 Elections
11/13/2022
Jeff Seward

Jeff Seward provides us with a review of what happened in the 2022 mid-term election and its implications for the future quality of democracy in the U.S. Jeff has a Ph.D from Stanford. He has had a career in public television as a political reporter, news anchor, and film producer. Before his retirement, he was a professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University.

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