Columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria will visit Belk Theater tonight to lecture on politics, the economy and other worldly affairs. Having released two national best sellers — The Post-American World and The Future of Freedom — and countless news columns (featured in Newsweek International and The Washington Post, to name a couple), you'd better bet Zakaria has a lot to talk about. Zakaria will speak for 45 minutes and take questions from the audience for 15 minutes. $40. 7 p.m. Belk Theater, 130 N. Tryon St. 704-372-1000. www.blumenthalcenter.org.