Aaron Tang is a law professor at UC Davis. He has written a new book entitled Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence is Destroying the Court and How We Can Fix It. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Jeremy Bernstein was a work colleague of Oppenheimer at the Institute for Advanced Studies and is the author of the book Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma. Darren Schwartz is our What Happens Next culture critic and will help us find the humor in the atomic bomb. Billy Herriott, the assistant golf pro at the Lake Shore Country Club, made a road trip from Chicago to Indianapolis to watch Oppenheimer on the IMAX screen in its intended 70-millimeter. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minut...
Sophia Saker is an intern on What Happens Next. Sophia recently graduated from Brown and will be working for a Hollywood talent agency after the writers’ strike is over. Kay Hymowitz is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of the book Manning Up: How the Rise of Women has Turned Men into Boys. Debbie Warren loved Barbies as a child and wrote her graduate school application essay on collaboration when playing with barbies as a kid. Darren Schwartz is the What Happens Next film criti...
Michael Reid is a journalist and author who wrote the new book, Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Richard D. De Veaux is the C. Carlisle and Margaret Tippit Professor of Statistics at Williams College and the author of the college textbook Intro Stats. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Anthony Bradley is the Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton Institute and a Professor of Interdisciplinary and Theological Studies at Kuyper College. He is also the author of the book Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Tom Malone is a Professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School and the Director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Tom is the author of the book Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Retired Federal Judge Gary Feinerman recently joined the law firm Latham and Watkins as a partner in litigation. Gary will discuss the recent case in North Carolina related to gerrymandering and whether the state courts can overrule the state legislature’s redistricting maps. Renée Flaherty is the attorney who successfully argued the case of Jackson v. Raffensperger in the Georgia Supreme Court. This case is about the limits of state authority to regulate occupations. Jackson teaches new mothers...
Rick Banks is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the co-founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice and he is also on the faculty at Stanford’s School of Education. Rick was previously the co-host for this podcast What Happens Next during most of 2020. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Patrick Allitt is a Professor of History at Emory. Patrick is perfectly positioned to help us evaluate the AP US History exam as he has graded and written the AP Tests. Patrick has also taught the US History survey class that is available from the Teaching Company’s Great Courses. Annie Abrams is the author of the new book entitled Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students. Annie teaches AP English at the NYC magnet high school Bronx Science. We will hear from Annie about her concerns...
Betsy DeVos is the former Secretary of Education and the author of the book Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child. I hope to learn from Betsy about why school choice will improve educational outcomes. I also want to hear about how COVID changed the relationship between parents and schools, and whether some students might benefit from vocational training instead of a college track curriculum. Darren Schwartz is the What Happens Next movie critic. W...
Arnette Heintze worked in law enforcement and the Secret Service. In the Secret Service he worked the detail protecting Presidents Bush and Clinton and was awarded the US Secret Service Valor Award for heroism. Arnette operated for 15 years Hillard Heintze which is a security and investigative firm used by many of the country’s largest firms. Tom Sancton is the author of the book The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping that Brought Down an Empire. The book is fabulous, and it tells the true story o...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: ...
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, ...
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...
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...
