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, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
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