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, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Stefan Timmermans is a medical sociologist at UCLA and the author of a new book entitled The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Apr 20, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anne Curzan is the Dean of Literature, Science and Arts at the University of Michigan and the author of, Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words . Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Apr 13, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anne Curzan is the Dean of Literature, Science and Arts at the University of Michigan and the author of, Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words . Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Apr 06, 2024•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Greg Makoff has a new book entitled, Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Mar 30, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bethany McLean is the author of the book, The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Mar 23, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Henry Olsen is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of two books: The Working-Class Republican and The Four Faces of the Republican Party. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Mar 16, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve Lewis is the former President of Carleton College and former Provost at Williams. I want to learn from Steve what are the constructive steps that a university president should make to facilitate a healthy conversation on campus on provocative and highly charged topics. How can a college develop a social contract among students and faculty that fosters free speech? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Mar 09, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast John Bolton served as the US Ambassador to the UN under George W. Bush and as US National Security Advisor for Donald Trump. John published his memoir The Room Where It Happened about his time working in the Trump Administration. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Mar 02, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Elliott served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela for Donald Trump. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Feb 17, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. Saul’s work ranges from literary theory, the history of ideas, and the relation between literature and philosophy in the works of Chekov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Feb 10, 2024•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brian Rosenberg was President of Macalester College for 17 years and is now a visiting professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. He has a new book entitled “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”: Resistance to Change in Higher Education. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Feb 03, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Hal is the author of the book entitled The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Jan 27, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eitan Shamir is the former head of the National Security Doctrine Department at the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs. He is also the co-author of the book entitled The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Jan 20, 2024•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Philip Wallach is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Philip is the author of the book entitled Why Congress, which describes the role of the legislature in the American constitutional framework and why we need to encourage Congress to legislate instead of delegating its responsibility to the executive branch, the bureaucracy, and the courts. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Jan 13, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Patrick Ruffini is the author of the book Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP. Patrick is the founder of Echelon Insights that uses digital analytics to improve polling and strategy for Republican candidates. I want to hear from Patrick if voter behavior is entrenched and whether the Republicans can persuade Black and Hispanic voters to vote like their White Working-Class brethren. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein ...
Jan 06, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cynthia Nicoletti is a legal historian and law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Cynthia is the author of the book, Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Jan 03, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gerald Posner is the author of the book Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK Assassination. Gerald has spent years researching this book and interviewed all the major living players in the murder. This year is the 60th anniversary of the assassination, and I want to find out who killed JFK and if there was a conspiracy. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Dec 16, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gerald Posner is the author of the book Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK Assassination. Gerald has spent years researching this book and interviewed all the major living players in the murder. This year is the 60th anniversary of the assassination, and I want to find out who killed JFK and if there was a conspiracy. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Dec 09, 2023•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Bell is a Professor of History at Princeton and the author of Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Dec 03, 2023•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jeff Speck is the author of the classic book now in its 10th edition entitled Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. I want to learn from Jeff why some cities are more walkable, what design changes can radically improve city life, why bike lanes and active pedestrian traffic make cities more vibrant, and why speedy cars are so problematic. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Nov 25, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Ari Ciment is the author of a new book entitled Breathless Tales: Life, Laughter, and Lessons. Ari managed the Covid ward at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach when I was a patient recovering from COVID in December 2020. Ari has spoken more times on this podcast than any other guest. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Nov 18, 2023•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Josh Soven is a partner at Paul Weiss who works in Antitrust. Josh previously worked at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Nov 15, 2023•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anthony King is a Professor of War Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK. Tony has written a recent book entitled Urban Warfare in the 21st Century, and he spoke previously on this podcast 18 months about the war in Ukraine. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Oct 28, 2023•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
