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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

Cutting Entitlements

Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the President of the American Action Forum and the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Douglas will discuss the implications of the impending explosion in entitlement spending, and the coming crowding out of discretionary and defense spending. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Nov 16, 202422 min

Surging Business Formation

John Haltiwanger is a Professor of Economics at Maryland and a specialist in new businesses. I want to hear from John about the growing importance of new firms to increase productivity and provide job growth. In addition, I want to learn about how the movement towards self-employed and 1099 independent contractors will influence the job market. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Nov 14, 202427 min

Putting Women to Work

Betsey Stevenson is a Professor of Economics at Michigan. Betsey is also the former Chief Economist at the Department of Labor. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Nov 09, 202433 min

Are the Presidential Polls Flawed?

Patrick Ruffini is a pollster with Echelon Insights and he is also the author of the book Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Oct 31, 202433 min

White vs. Black Working Class Voters

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the author of the new book entitled Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women . I am going to ask Batya to focus her comments on why Trump appeals to Working Class Americans. Corey Fields is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown and the author of a book entitled Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans . I want Corey to explain why the Republicans have historically been unsuccessful in attracting Black...

Oct 29, 202445 min

Don’t Glorify Manufacturing Jobs

Marty Eichenbaum is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern. Marty wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal last week where he argued that the focus on American manufacturing jobs is misplaced, and that our economy has moved on to services. Manufacturing jobs were good jobs in the 1950s but no longer. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Oct 19, 202425 min

What Is Putin Thinking?

John Sullivan was formerly the US Ambassador to Russia during the Trump and Biden Administrations and previously Deputy Secretary of State. John just published a new book entitled Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Oct 12, 202435 min

Torturing the Wrong Man

Maurice Samuels is a Professor of French at Yale and the director of their Program for the Study of Antisemitism. Maurice is the author of a new book entitled Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Oct 05, 202446 min

How Change in Function Drives Evolution

Neil Shubin is a Professor of Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and the Provost of the Field Museum of Natural History. He is the author of a new book entitled Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life from Ancient Fossils to DNA . Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Sep 28, 202427 min

Reducing the Number of Foreign Students

Jay Greene is a Senior Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy and previously was the Department Chair at the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education Reform. Jay is probably best known as my debate partner at New Trier High School. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Sep 21, 202430 min

Whipping in the Public Square

Peter Moskos is the author of the books Cop in the Hood as well as In Defense of Flogging. Peter is a Professor in the Department of Law and Political Science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. I want to find out from Peter what it is like policing in the Eastern District of Baltimore when he was a police officer and why he thinks we need to reconsider physical punishment in lieu of incarceration. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappens...

Sep 07, 202427 min

Is The War in Gaza Just?

Michael Walzer is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has previously taught politics and government at Princeton and Harvard as well. Michael has written the leading book in his field entitled Just and Unjust Wars . I want to discuss with him his moral philosophy of war and then apply it to the current conflict in Gaza. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Aug 31, 202440 min

Killing Your Lover

Scott Turow is the author of the novel Presumed Innocent which has recently been adapted into an 8-part Apple TV miniseries. I want to learn from Scott about adapting his novels to film. I also want to hear his views on copyright and whether it serves public policy to give authors control over their books and derivative work for their lifetime plus 70 years. And most importantly I want to hear from Scott about what he thought about the new radically different Presumed Innocent miniseries. Darren...

Aug 24, 202453 min

Criminalize or Legalize Drugs?

Kurt Schmoke is the President of the University of Baltimore. Kurt served 12 years as the Mayor of Baltimore and 8 years as a prosecutor, and he came to oppose the Federal War on Drugs. I want to find out from Kurt if drug legalization has reduced violence and made our communities safer? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Aug 17, 202429 min

Expelling Students Who Misbehave

Daniel Diermeier is the Chancellor of Vanderbilt. I want to discuss with Daniel what caused the current chaos on college campuses and whether universities would be better served by remaining neutral on controversial political matters. I want to understand what the objectives of the university are and how free speech and civil discourse on campus fits into that. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Aug 10, 202430 min

Shooting Donald Trump

Gerald Posner is the author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. You may recall that Gerald and I recorded a two-part podcast series on Oswald and JFK that could be found here and here. I want to discuss with Gerald what we have learned so far about Trump’s alleged assassin, what was the extent of the security failure, and why we Americans gravitate so quickly to conspiracy theories on both the right and left. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larr...

Aug 03, 202431 min

Investing in Cheap Real Estate

Dean Adler co-founded Lubert-Adler 27 years ago and focuses on investing in institutional real estate. Dean’s firm has over $17 billion of assets under management. Dean is an expert in investing in residential and office buildings across the capital stack. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Jul 29, 202436 min

Pivoting to Asia to Confront China

Richard Fontaine is the CEO of the foreign policy think tank The Center for New American Security. Richard is also the co-author with Ambassador Blackwill of a new book entitled Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power . I want to find out from Richard about how to contain Chinese economic and military power. I also want to hear about the trouble China is causing with international organizations and what we can do about it. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes...

Jul 20, 202423 min

The Courts Strike Back Against the Bureaucracy

Michael McConnell is a Stanford Law professor and today we will discuss the Chevron Doctrine. The Supreme Court has just repealed the Chevron Doctrine in one of the Supreme Court’s most important rulings of the year. This decision ends judicial deference for interpretations made by bureaucrats in the Federal agencies. For the past 40 years, the Supreme Court has allowed bureaucratic experts to interpret ambiguous statutes if their analysis was reasonable. No more. Now decision making goes back t...

Jul 13, 202431 min

Has Woke Peaked?

Eric Kaufmann is a Professor of Politics at The University of Buckingham and the author of the book entitled, The Third Awokening: a 12 Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism. Eric uses a different title in the UK for the same book, which is Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Jul 05, 202432 min

The President Won’t Seek Reelection

Luke Nichter is the author of the new book entitled The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968. After LBJ decided not to seek another term, the election was wide open for the candidates Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Jun 29, 202434 min

The Upcoming Naval Battle in the South China Sea

James Holmes is the J.C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College. Naval technology is changing rapidly, and I want to learn if the US fleet is capable of repelling a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, and what that conflict would look like. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Jun 22, 202421 min

Abolishing the International Criminal Court

Eugene Kontorovich is a Professor of Law and the Executive Director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at the George Mason Antonin Scalia Law School. He also works with the Israeli think tank The Kohelet Policy Forum. Greg Townsend is a former prosecutor who worked for the ICC tribunals in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Lebanon. He is also a lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Professor of Practice at Brandeis University, based in The Hague, and advisor on ...

Jun 15, 202449 min

Arresting Netanyahu

Greg Townsend worked for the ICC tribunals in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Lebanon. I want to learn from Greg what the next steps will be in the ICC judicial process for the Israeli officials. Why they are being charged? And how this will all eventually play out. I also want to figure out whether these international institutions are in the Western democracies interest or if they have been co-opted by bad actors. I want to find out if Israel can legally defend itself if Hamas uses human shields...

Jun 08, 202436 min

What is Wrong with Copyright?

David Bellos is a Professor of Literature at Princeton. David has a new book entitled Who Owns This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs. I am interested in learning from David the rationale for Copyright. Is the term of 95 years for most copyrights too long? And should we be looking to extend copyright to such things as fashion or should we be restricting its use to derivative works? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes....

Jun 02, 202424 min

President Lincoln and Immigration

Harold Holzer won the Lincoln Prize for his book Lincoln and the Power of the Press. Harold has a new book entitled Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. I want to learn from Harold why Lincoln encouraged more Europeans to move to the US. Many were Catholics from Ireland and Germany who were generally viewed as potential Democratic voters. How did Lincoln persuade the immigrants to fight and support the Republicans during the civil war? Get full access to Wha...

May 26, 202425 min

Enforcing Non-Competes

Michael Wexler is a partner with the law firm Seyfarth where he specializes in trade secrets, corporate espionage, and employment restrictive covenants. I met Michael 12 years ago at the Father-Son event at Camp Horseshoe in Rhinelander Wisconsin and became friends. Josh Soven is a partner at Paul Weiss. Josh learned his trade working for the US Department of Justice’s Anti-Trust Division and at the Federal Trade Commission. I met Josh in our first class in college an English Seminar called the ...

May 19, 202432 min

Running a Presidential Campaign from Prison

Ernie Freeberg is a Professor of American History at the University of Tennessee. Ernie wrote a book entitled Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

May 11, 202432 min

The Modern Muslim State

Malika Zeghal is the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life at Harvard. She just published her book entitled The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

May 04, 202430 min

Walking the World

Chris Arnade and I worked together in the Emerging Markets Department at Salomon Brothers in the mid-1990s. Chris spends his time walking the world with his camera sending dispatches from global cities. We will discuss why he walks and what he learned in places like Seoul, Hanoi, Amman, Tokyo, and Dakar. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...

Apr 27, 202424 min
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