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What Happens Next in 6 Minutes

What Happens Next offers listeners an in-depth investigation of the most pressing issues of the day. Visit https://www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/ for all the links and to subscribe

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Episodes

8 Billion People, Oh My!

Jennifer Sciubba has written a book entitled 8 Billion and Counting. I am fascinated by the field of demographics because population growth is critical in determining a nation’s future political and economic power. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

May 27, 202325 min

Dude, WTF! How Bad English Improves the Language

Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada at Reno, and she is the author of the book Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

May 20, 202332 min

How to Make an Apology

Edwin Battistella is the author of the book, Sorry About That: The Language of Public Apology. Darren Schwartz is the What Happens Next movie critic. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

May 13, 202343 min

India is Broken

Ashoka Mody is a Professor in International Economic Policy at Princeton. He is the author of the book India is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

May 06, 202340 min

Beware Taking Advice from Generals

Ingo Trauschweizer is a Professor of Military History at Ohio University. He recently wrote a biography entitled Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Apr 29, 202331 min

How the Railroad Made America

Patrick Allitt is a Professor of History at Emory University, and he is currently writing a new book entitled Keeping Track: A Concise History of American Railroads. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Apr 22, 202353 min

Remembering the Waco Inferno

Kevin Cook is the author of the book Waco Rising. Patrick Allitt who is a Professor of History at Emory University and a scholar in American Religious History. And we welcome back the What Happens Next film and TV critic, Darren Schwartz. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Apr 15, 202358 min

Heckling a Federal Judge at Stanford Law School

Michael is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also the author of the book the President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution. Rick is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford, and the author of the book Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone. Rick is most famous co-hosting this podc...

Apr 08, 202332 min

How will the Ukraine War End?

Stephen Biddle is a Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Stephen previously worked for General Petraeus in Iraq and General McChrystal in Afghanistan. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Apr 01, 202333 min

Making Learning Easy

Dan Willingham is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the new book entitled Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy. We are going to hear about how to be smarter about learning new material in school and in life. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Mar 25, 202333 min

Run on the Banks!

Nicolas Véron is a senior fellow at Bruegel Institute in Brussels and at the Peterson Institute in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on the financial system and international banking regulatory matters. Today Nicolas will discuss the radical change in US policy for uninsured bank deposits. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Mar 19, 202327 min

Parents Paying for the Party!

Laura Hamilton is a sociologist at UC Merced and the author of multiple books including Broke, Who is Paying for the Party, and Parenting by Degree. Laura is interested in how socio-economic status influences who goes to college, how students perform, their job prospects, and their marriage market. This discussion should be very provocative. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Mar 18, 202334 min

The Opioid Crisis

Gerald Posner wrote the book Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America . Gerald will speak about the conflict that pharmaceutical firms face with their desire for advancing public health and their profit motive. We will also discuss the advancement of pain management care, fears of addiction, and the success and failures of OxyContin. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Mar 11, 202329 min

How Should I Invest My Money? (Classic)

Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes and Elm Wealth's Victor Haghani discuss the Golden Rules of Investing. Victor Haghani is a former Salomon Brothers colleague of mine and one of the founders of Long-Term Capital Management. A decade ago Victor founded a wealth advisor, Elm Wealth, as an extension of managing his family office. I endorse Victor’s wealth management strategy that dynamically manages portfolios of low cost ETFs focused on delivering attractive risk-adjusted, after-tax returns for cli...

Mar 04, 202345 min

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureaucracy Under Attack

The first speaker will be Jay Greene from the Heritage Foundation who will discuss Florida Governor’s challenge to the DEI bureaucracy in Florida’s public universities. Jay and I were high school debate partners at New Trier in Winnetka, Illinois and are still very close friends. Our second speaker will be Dr. Stanley Goldfarb who runs a not for profit called Do No Harm. Stanley is the former Associate Dean at the UPenn Medical School and the author of Take 2 Aspirin and Call me by my Pronouns: ...

Mar 03, 202355 min

Juries: Opportunity or Peril

Our first guest will be Sonali Chakravarti who is a Professor of Political Theory at Wesleyan University who focuses on the importance of juries to democracy. She is the author of the book Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life and Sonali will discuss how to expand jury nullification. Our second guest will be Retired Federal District Court Judge Gary Feinerman who left the bench two months ago to be a litigation partner at Latham and Watkins. Gary presided over 48 jury trials, ...

Feb 26, 20232 hr 34 min

Prince Harry - The Spare

Tina Brown will discuss her new book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – The Truth and the Turmoil. Tina is the former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Tina has written several other books including the Diana Chronicles as well as The Vanity Fair Diaries. Tina will explain why the public is so fascinated with the Royal Family, the continuing deterioration of Prince Harry’s relationship with his brother William, the next in line to be king. Why Harry decided to give up his r...

Feb 18, 202347 min

The Speaker Saga

Gisela Sin is a Political Science Professor at the University of Illinois and the author of the book entitled Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules. Gisela will explain what rule changes that McCarthy had to agree to get the necessary votes, and we will find out what the implications are for the legislative agenda and the House’s power in negotiating with the President. We will also hear from Tennessee Rep...

Feb 11, 202342 min

Supreme Court Docket & Judicial Backlash to Netanyahu

We are going to hear from Ilya about what happened last term besides Dobbs and what to expect from the Supreme Court. This year’s big cases will be on affirmative action, limiting state courts influence in elections, and interstate commerce. Ilya spoke on this podcast previously about free speech. Our second speaker is Eugene Kontorovich who is a Professor of International Law at George Mason’s Law School and works with the Kohelet Policy Forum on legal reforms related to Israel’s Supreme Court....

Feb 04, 202355 min

How Should I Invest My Money?

Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes and Elm Wealth's Victor Haghani discuss the Golden Rules of Investing. Victor Haghani is a former Salomon Brothers colleague of mine and one of the founders of Long-Term Capital Management. A decade ago Victor founded a wealth advisor, Elm Wealth, as an extension of managing his family office. I endorse Victor’s wealth management strategy that dynamically manages portfolios of low cost ETFs focused on delivering attractive risk-adjusted, after-tax returns for cli...

Jan 28, 202345 min

Who Should We Let Into the US?

Our speakers will be economists Ran Abramitzky from Stanford and Garett Jones from George Mason. Ran is the author of Streets of Gold: American’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success and Garett wrote the book The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left. Both speakers are pro-immigration, but Garett wants us to focus our efforts on recruiting immigrants with skills. Garett believes that the success of immigrants’ descendants is a function of the...

Jan 21, 202342 min

Major League Pickleball

Pickleball is the hottest sport in America. Player enthusiasm is off the charts. In my neighborhood in Miami Beach and my mothers in Sarasota, pickleball is the rage. This is becoming the norm. The game is fun to play and is open to all ages and skill level. And the people love it. Today’s guest is my close friend Steve Kuhn who founded Major League Pickleball, you know the one where Tom Brady and LeBron are team owners. Steve is incredibly creative and highly excitable. You are going to love St...

Jan 14, 202321 min

How to Write a Bestselling Mystery Novel

I hope to learn from Scott how he thinks about constructing a novel and character development. What is the role of the editor? How do you go about the rewriting process? In the post development phase, how do you market a novel and sell the film rights, and generate excitement about the work so that booksellers can sell it? There is much to cover, so buckle up. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Jan 07, 202338 min

Getting Your Kid a Job

Lauren Rivera is a management professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School and the author of Pedigree: How Elite Students get Elite Jobs. And our second speaker will be Beth Hendler-Grunt who is the author of The Next Great Step: The Parents’ Guide to Launching our New Grad into a Career. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Dec 30, 202247 min

Red-Hot Art Market

Our first speaker today is Wendy Cromwell who is an art consultant who assists collectors to buy major art works. Wendy visited us down here in Miami during the Miami Art Basel Fair and I want to learn from her what she saw at the Fair and what does that mean for the state-of-the-art market. Our second speaker is Claudia Gould who is the Director of the Jewish Museum in New York. My wife and I met Claudia when she was the Director of the ICA Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. I’ve asked C...

Dec 24, 202241 min

Models and Bottles

Our first speaker on this program will be Nina Scalera who is a fellow podcaster with her own show She Werks Hard for the Money about her life as a 20-something working as a bartender at the trendy midtown restaurant Avra. Nina will give us a glimpse into the NY dating scene from her vantage point behind the bar. I am also raiding the What Happens Next archive and I have selected excerpts from a conversation with Ashley Mears who is a a sociologist at Boston University, and the author of the boo...

Dec 17, 202252 min

No Red Wave

We need to do a detailed postmortem of the Midterm elections. Our speaker is Henry Olsen who is the author of The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of the Blue-Collar Conservatism. Henry will explain why there was no red wave in an election despite the Republicans winning the national popular vote by 3% or 3.2 million votes. Henry will explain how the Republicans improved their voting share in very blue urban districts and very red rural districts which didn’t help Republica...

Dec 10, 202241 min

Are You White?

Our speakers will be Dan Bouk, who is the Department Chair of History at Colgate University and the author of the new book called Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the US Census and How to Read Them. Dan will speak about our ongoing governmental data collection to determine race, gender, and other personal information. The search for these answers and ethnic classification informs us about who we are as a society. The downside is that these questions highlight differences in our national i...

Dec 03, 202249 min

CRISPR and The Ethics of Genetic Engineering

Our first speaker is Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely who is the author of the book CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans. A Chinese scientist recently edited the genes in a human embryo with the purpose of improving that child’s defense to the HIV virus. Three children were born with these genetic enhancements and their progeny will carry those genetic changes in their germline. Hank will discuss whether the science is sufficiently advanced and that the risk/reward makes sen...

Nov 25, 202256 min

Food Porn

Our speaker is Rebecca Halpern who is the writer and director of a new documentary film Love Charlie that will be released in theaters and available for streaming on Apple and Amazon on November 18th. The film is about the life of Top Chef Charlie Trotter who revolutionized American cuisine. Charlie was a creative genius who used a different 10-course menu each day for 25 years. He introduced us to farm to table, placed table in the restaurant’s kitchen, and eliminated hard liquor and foie gras ...

Nov 19, 202236 min