After Dinner Speakers: Bill Emmott, The Sisters of Mercy, Arno Penzias

Bill Emmott attracts audiences from both business and academe, who invariably respond enthusiastically to his witty and perceptive overviews of world affairs. In previous posts for The Economist, Emmott has covered Benelux and the EU from Brussels, general economics from London, and Japan and South Korea from Tokyo. His two books, Japanophobia and The Sun Also Sets, examine the limits of Japan’s economic power. His upcoming book, 2021 Vision: 20th Century Lessons for the 21st Century, is based on an essay he wrote for The Economist in September, 1999, analyzing the 20th century