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What will Success and Failure be in the Iran War

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Hal Brands who is a Professor of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins and former Special Assistant to the Secretary of War for Strategic Pla...

Opening the Strait of Hormuz

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is James Holmes who is a Professor of Maritime Strategy at the US Naval War College. He is also the author of the book Red Star over the P...

Fine Tuning the OODA Loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act Loop to Win the War in Iran

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Brig. Gen. (Res.) Eran Ortal is a former Israeli Defense Forces officer who previously served as the Commander of the Dado Center fo...

Evaluating Success on the Iranian Battlefield

07 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Amir Avivi who is a retired Israeli Brigadier General and the Chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum – ISDF. Amir is the a...

Bolton on the War in Iran

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Nick Griffin who is the author of The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in 1980, and he spoke about that book on a p...

Requiring English

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Nick Griffin who is the author of The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in 1980, and he spoke about that book on a p...

Mr. Warsh Goes To Washington

21 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump recently nominated Kevin Warsh to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.  In October 2022, Kevin spoke on What Happens Ne...

Why Is Trump’s Rhetoric Effective?

14 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Henry Olsen who is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Henry studies American politics with a focus on populism.I w...

The 90th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Giles Tremlett who is the author of several books on the Spanish civil war and his most recent work is entitled El Generalisimo: A Biog...

Venezuela After Maduro

31 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Francisco Rodriguez who is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the author of the recent book Th...

Defending Israel

24 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Amir Avivi who is a retired Israeli Brigadier General and the Chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum – ISDF. Amir is the a...

Getting on a War Footing

17 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our first speaker is Seth Jones who is the president of the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies – ...

The Wondering Jew

10 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Abby Pogrebin who is the author of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew. Abby was previously the President of the Board of Ce...

Limiting Presidential Power

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is William Howell who is the inaugural Dean of Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy. This is a new academic division located at t...

Understanding Trump’s Foreign Policy

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our first speaker will be a very dear friend of mine, Rory MacFarquhar, who previously was a member of Obama’s National Security Council. Our second...

You Sank My U-Boat

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Roger Moorhouse who is the author of a new book entitled Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War. I want to hear from Roger about the re...

Cutting Foreign Aid

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is William Easterly who is a Professor of Economics at NYU and the author of a new book entitled Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of...

Should the Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz?

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Richard Breitman who is an Emeritus Professor of History at American University and the author of a new book entitled Calculated Restra...

Will the EU Hold Together?

22 Nov 2025

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Our speaker is Nicolas Veron who is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel in Brussels as well as at the Peterson Institute in DC. He is also the author of the bo...

Convicting Ex-Nazis: The 80th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s topic is Convicting Ex-Nazis: the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials. We have two speakers Jonathan Bush who is a Law Professor at Col...

The Government Housing Failure

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Howard Husock who is a Senior Fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of a new book entit...

The Future of Conservative Media

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Joel Pollak who is the Senior Editor at Large for the website Breitbart. I want to learn from Joel about the future of conservative med...

The Once and Future Saudi King

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Karen Elliott House who is the former Managing Editor at the Wall Street Journal, and the author of a new book entitled The Man Who Wou...

Know-how Drives Wealth Creation

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Ricardo Hausmann who is a Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and he is also the Founder and Di...

AI is a Mixed Blessing

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Daron Acemoglu who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Daron is a Professor at MIT and is also the co-author of Power and Progress: Our T...

The Democrats Will Rebound

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is John Sides who is the Chair of the Political Science Department at Vanderbilt and the author of the book entitled The Bitter End: The 2...

Bolton on Gaza and Ukraine

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is John Bolton who is Trump’s former national security advisor. This podcast was taped at a conference that I hosted in DC. So, you are ...

Forget the Two State Solution

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Robert Malley who is a Senior Fellow at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and previously has worked in the Clinton, Obama, and ...

Israel's 10/7 Failure

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Yaakov Katz who is the former editor in chief for the Jerusalem Post and the author of the new book entitled While Israel Slept: How Ha...

Predicting Sport Outcomes

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker will be my buddy Steve Kuhn an entrepreneur who started sportspredict.com that allows the public to predict sporting events for fun to giv...

No Debate in College Courses

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Jon Shields who is a Professor of Political Science at Claremont McKenna. Jon recently finished a study of nearly 30,000 college syllab...

Don’t Damn the Dams

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Patrick Allitt who is a Professor of History at Emory. Patrick also works with The Great Courses where he will be releasing a series of...

The Future of Vaccines

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is my good friend Ofer Levy who is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Precision Vaccines at Boston Ch...

Persuading Younger Women to Have More Children

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s topic is Persuading Younger Women to have More Children. Our speaker is Wolfgang Lutz who is a professor of demographics at the University o...

Polarized America During the Revolution

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is H.W. Brands who is a Professor of History at University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of the book Our First Civil War: Patriots ...

Happiness is a Naked Gun

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Darren Schwartz who is the What Happens Next Culture Critic. We will review the recently released Naked Gun movie starring Liam Neeson ...

Reducing Crime in NYC

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Peter Moskos who is a Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the author of a new book entitled Back from the Brin...

Loving Avocados

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Monique Parsons who will discuss her new book Green Gold: The Avocado’s Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation...

Innovative Abundance – Making Government Work

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker today is Derek Kaufman who started a new think tank called Innovative Abundance which is working on policy prescriptions to make governmen...

Does Your College Major Matter?

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Corey Moss-Pech who is a Professor of Sociology at Florida State and the author of a new book entitled Major Trade-Offs: The Surprising...

The Future of Movie Theaters

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Greg Marcus who is President of the Marcus Corporation which owns hotels, restaurants and movie theaters. Greg spoke previously on this...

Remembering the 80th Anniversary of Japan’s Surrender

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Richard Overy who is the leading WW2 air force historian. Richard is the author of a new book entitled Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, ...

Using Networks of Volunteer EMTs

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Eli Beer who is the founder and president of United Hatzalah. I want to learn from Eli about his idea of creating a network of voluntee...

Using AI with Your Doctor

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Dr. Ari Ciment who is the President of the Medical Staff at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach. Ari ran the COVID ward at Mt. Sinai du...

It’s What Every White Boy Off the Lake Wants

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Darren Schwartz who is the What Happens Next Culture Critic. The two of us went to the movies together to watch Mission Impossible -- T...

Ending Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Edward Erler who is Professor of Political Science at California State at San Bernardino and author of The United States in Crisis: Cit...

Reconsidering Ronald Reagan

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Max Boot who is the author of a new biography entitled Ronald Reagan: His Life and Legend. I hosted an in-person book club in New York ...

Terminating Visas for Foreign Students at Harvard

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Greene is most famous for being my New Trier High School Debate Partner. Jay is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Education Policy a...

AI and Robotics

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Myron Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Myron was awarded the Nobel Prize in Econom...

Deporting Illegal Aliens

17 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Arthur is a fellow at the Center of Immigration Studies. Andrew is a former immigration judge and a former prosecutor with the INS. I want to l...

Investing with Uncertainty

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Myron Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Myron won the Nobel Prize in Economics for ...

Taking Down Harvard

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Greene from the Heritage Foundation who is best known for being my New Trier High School debate partner. We also have Jon Zimmerman who is a Profe...

The Future of the US Navy

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Labs is the Congressional Budget Office Analyst for Naval Forces and Weapons. I want to hear about the challenges coming from China and how that ...

Should the US Abandon NATO?

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John Bolton was Trump’s National Security Advisor in his first administration. John will discuss why the Americans are frustrated with the Europeans...

The 80th Anniversary of the Nazi Germany Surrender – How the Allies Won the War

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Craig Symonds is the author of the book, Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings. Craig is a Professor of History at the US Nava...

The 80th Anniversary of the Nazi Germany Surrender

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Craig Symonds is the author of the book, Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings. Craig is a Professor of History at the US Nava...

Why Authoritarianism Beats Anarchy

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Kaplan is the author of a new book entitled, Waste Land. We are going to hear why the world is in permanent instability and that we should expe...

Dismantling the Department of Education

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lindsey Burke is the Director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation. I will ask Lindsey about the implications of firing most ...

Embracing Reality and NOT your Smartphone

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Christine Rosen is the author of a new book entitled The Extinction of Experience. I want to discuss how our interaction with new technologies might b...

Gene Hackman: The French Connection, Unforgiven, Hoosiers and Crimson Tide

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gene Hackman and his wife were found dead recently in their Santa Fe home. Today I am joined by The What Happens Next Culture Critic Darren Schwartz t...

Jackson vs. Trump

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

H.W. Brands is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Bill is a two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist who will discuss his biography ...

Beating Boredom

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

James Danckert is a cognitive neuroscientist and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo. James is the co-author of the book Out of My...

Cocaine, Race Riots, and the Cuban Boat Lift in Miami in 1980

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Griffin is the author of a Year of Dangerous Days. Miami was not the beautiful and successful metropolitan city that it is now 45 years ago. ...

American Glasnost

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eugene Kontorovich is a Professor of Law at George Mason and his father Vladimir Kontorovich is a Professor of Economics at Haverford. Eugene and Vlad...

The Birth Dearth

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Eberstadt will describe the current collapse in the global birth rate and what the implications are for business, housing, and warfare. Get f...

The British Empire was a Source for Good

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John Ellis is the former Dean of the Graduate School at The University of California at Santa Cruz. He is also the author of a new book entitled A Sho...

Fanning the LA Flames

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vicky Collison will give us a firsthand account of what it was like to fight the fires in the Palisades. I first met Vicky immediately after graduatin...

Rebuilding Los Angeles

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ed Glaeser is a Professor of Economics at Harvard and the author of Triumph of the City. I want to learn from Ed what the key issues are for rebuildin...

Presumed Guilty

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Turow is the author of the newly released courtroom thriller Presumed Guilty and the best selling book Presumed Innocent that was made into a mo...

America First

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

H. W. Brands is the author of the book America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War. Trump has indicated that his foreign policy will p...

The Spectacular Growth of Private Credit Markets

04 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Zelter is the co-President of Apollo. Jim will discuss the growing dominance of Private Credit lending and the disintermediation of banks. Current...

Killing bin Laden

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Vickers was the Defense Department’s top civilian military intelligence officer under Obama. He is also the author of the book By All Means ...

No One Mourns the Wicked

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Darren Schwartz is the What Happens Next Movie Critic. Darren and I will discuss all aspects of the blockbuster movie Wicked including, the decision t...

Picking an Admiral to Wage War

14 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Craig Symonds is a Maritime History Professor at the US Naval Academy and the author of the book Nimitz at War. Get full access to What Happens Next i...

War in the Pacific

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Admiral James Stavridis is the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and the former Dean of the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Admiral ...

Trump's Foreign Policy

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our speaker is Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton. We are going to hear about the next administration’s foreign policy and why I...

Harris Almost Won

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Adelstein is a partner at AL Media. Eric and his firm worked on the Harris Campaign as part of its media team. I want to hear firsthand about wha...

Cutting Entitlements

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the President of the American Action Forum and the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Douglas will discuss the...

Surging Business Formation

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Putting Women to Work

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Wha...

Are the Presidential Polls Flawed?

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Coaliti...

White vs. Black Working Class Voters

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 B...

Don’t Glorify Manufacturing Jobs

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

What Is Putin Thinking?

12 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Sullivan was formerly the US Ambassador to Russia during the Trump and Biden Administrations and previously Deputy Secretary of State. John just ...

Torturing the Wrong Man

05 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

How Change in Function Drives Evolution

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 autho...

Reducing the Number of Foreign Students

21 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Greene is a Senior Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy and previously was the Department Chair at the Unive...

Whipping in the Public Square

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Politica...

Is The War in Gaza Just?

31 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Walzer is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has previously taught politics and government at Princeton and Harvar...

Killing Your Lover

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Scot...

Criminalize or Legalize Drugs?

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Expelling Students Who Misbehave

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Diermeier is the Chancellor of Vanderbilt. I want to discuss with Daniel what caused the current chaos on college campuses and whether univers...

Shooting Donald Trump

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 podc...

Investing in Cheap Real Estate

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 un...

Pivoting to Asia to Confront China

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Black...

The Courts Strike Back Against the Bureaucracy

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael McConnell is a Stanford Law professor and today we will discuss the Chevron Doctrine. The Supreme Court has just repealed the Chevron Doctrine...

Has Woke Peaked?

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The President Won’t Seek Reelection

29 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Upcoming Naval Battle in the South China Sea

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 U...

Abolishing the International Criminal Court

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Antoni...