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Arresting Netanyahu
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What is Wrong with Copyright?
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
President Lincoln and Immigration
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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: A...
Enforcing Non-Competes
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Wexler is a partner with the law firm Seyfarth where he specializes in trade secrets, corporate espionage, and employment restrictive covenant...
Running a Presidential Campaign from Prison
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ernie Freeberg is a Professor of American History at the University of Tennessee. Ernie wrote a book entitled Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene Debs, the...
The Modern Muslim State
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Malika Zeghal is the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life at Harvard. She just published her book entitled The...
Walking the World
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 wi...
Unclaimed Dead Bodies
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
The Continuing Evolution of English
13 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ev...
Bad Grammar
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ev...
Argentina Won’t Pay!
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Makoff has a new book entitled, Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring. Get full access to What Ha...
Lessons Learned from COVID
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 acc...
The Upcoming Presidential Election
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Encouraging Civil Discourse on Campus
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Fighting to Win in American Foreign Policy
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Forget the Two State Solution
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Elliott served as deputy assistant to the president ...
Increasing Antisemitism on College Campuses
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern Unive...
Resistance to Change at Colleges
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Should Ukraine Sabotage Russian Infrastructure?
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Hal is t...
Success and Failure in the Israel Defense Forces
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Saving Congress!
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Philip Wallach is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Philip is the author of the book entitled Why Congress, which describes the ro...
Expanding the Republican Tent with More Black, Hispanic, and Young People
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 E...
Did the President Commit Treason?
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The JFK Assassination Conspiracy: Part 2
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 in...
Who Killed JFK?
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 in...
Napoleon: Military Genius, Despot, and Lover
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 M...
Making Cities More Walkable
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Using Storytelling to Teach Medicine
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Antitrust Enforcement Against Big Tech
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Urban Battle of Gaza City
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ce...
Inflation Isn't Going Away!
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Vladimirov is a market strategist at Goldman Sachs. I have been a close friend of Boris for over 15 years, and I met him when he was a bond spec...
Putting Petain on Trial
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Jackson is an Emeritus Professor of Modern French History at Queen Mary at the University of London. Julian is one of the preeminent scholars f...
Running for President!
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Asa Hutchinson is the former Governor of the State of Arkansas and is currently running for the Republican Nomination for President of the United Stat...
Religion and the Constitution
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael McConnell is a Stanford Law Professor who recently published a new book, Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious...
Disruption in Higher Education
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael D. Smith is a Professor of Information Technology and Marketing at Carnegie Mellon, and he has just published a new book entitled The Abundant...
The Art of Conversation
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Marantz Cohen is the Dean of the Honors College at Drexel University. Paula just released a new book Talking Cure: An Essay on the Civilizing Po...
Embracing Autocracy in the Middle East
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Kaplan just released a new book entitled The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China. Get full access to Wh...
Moderate or Neuter the Supreme Court!
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ca...
Oppenheimer: Babes, Bombs, and Beers
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 E...
Barbie is the Bomb!
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 writ...
Is General Francisco Franco Still Dead?
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 H...
Ethics of Big Data
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 St...
We Need More Fraternities
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Bradley is the Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton Institute and a Professor of Interdisciplinary and Theological Studies at Kuyper Col...
AI & Humans Working Together
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Gerrymandering and Economic Liberty
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Asians Get To Attend Harvard!
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Hey, hey, Ho-Ho, AP Tests have got to go!
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 wri...
Education Freedom and School Choice
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Am...
Getting Robbed in Midtown
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Arnette Heintze worked in law enforcement and the Secret Service. In the Secret Service he worked the detail protecting Presidents Bush and Clinton an...
8 Billion People, Oh My!
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Sciubba has written a book entitled 8 Billion and Counting. I am fascinated by the field of demographics because population growth is critica...
Dude, WTF! How Bad English Improves the Language
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
How to Make an Apology
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
India is Broken
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ashoka Mody is a Professor in International Economic Policy at Princeton. He is the author of the book India is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independenc...
Beware Taking Advice from Generals
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ingo Trauschweizer is a Professor of Military History at Ohio University. He recently wrote a biography entitled Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Be...
How the Railroad Made America
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Amer...
Remembering the Waco Inferno
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Religiou...
Heckling a Federal Judge at Stanford Law School
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 H...
How will the Ukraine War End?
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Biddle is a Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Stephen previously worked for General Petraeus in Iraq an...
Making Learning Easy
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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:...
Run on the Banks!
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fina...
Parents Paying for the Party!
18 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
The Opioid Crisis
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gerald Posner wrote the book Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America. Gerald will speak about the conflict that pharmaceutical firms face wi...
How Should I Invest My Money? (Classic)
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes and Elm Wealth's Victor Haghani discuss the Golden Rules of Investing.Victor Haghani is a former Salomon Brothers col...
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureaucracy Under Attack
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The first speaker will be Jay Greene from the Heritage Foundation who will discuss Florida Governor’s challenge to the DEI bureaucracy in Florida’...
Juries: Opportunity or Peril
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 de...
Prince Harry - The Spare
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ne...
The Speaker Saga
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gisela Sin is a Political Science Professor at the University of Illinois and the author of the book entitled Separation of Powers and Legislative Org...
Supreme Court Docket & Judicial Backlash to Netanyahu
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are going to hear from Ilya about what happened last term besides Dobbs and what to expect from the Supreme Court. This year’s big cases will b...
How Should I Invest My Money?
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes and Elm Wealth's Victor Haghani discuss the Golden Rules of Investing.Victor Haghani is a former Salomon Brothers col...
Who Should We Let Into the US?
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our speakers will be economists Ran Abramitzky from Stanford and Garett Jones from George Mason. Ran is the author of Streets of Gold: American’s Un...
Major League Pickleball
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pickleball is the hottest sport in America. Player enthusiasm is off the charts. In my neighborhood in Miami Beach and my mothers in Sarasota, pickleb...
How to Write a Bestselling Mystery Novel
07 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I hope to learn from Scott how he thinks about constructing a novel and character development. What is the role of the editor? How do you go about t...
Getting Your Kid a Job
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Rivera is a management professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School and the author of Pedigree: How Elite Students get Elite Jobs. And our se...
Red-Hot Art Market
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first speaker today is Wendy Cromwell who is an art consultant who assists collectors to buy major art works. Wendy visited us down here in Miam...
Models and Bottles
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first speaker on this program will be Nina Scalera who is a fellow podcaster with her own show She Werks Hard for the Money about her life as a 20...
No Red Wave
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We need to do a detailed postmortem of the Midterm elections. Our speaker is Henry Olsen who is the author of The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Rea...
Are You White?
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speakers will be Dan Bouk, who is the Department Chair of History at Colgate University and the author of the new book called Democracy’s Data: ...
CRISPR and The Ethics of Genetic Engineering
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first speaker is Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely who is the author of the book CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans. A Chine...
Food Porn
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker is Rebecca Halpern who is the writer and director of a new documentary film Love Charlie that will be released in theaters and available f...
Game Theory and Sports
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s first guest is Stanford Economics Professor Paul Oyer who has written the book An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 million...
How Team Owners use Sports Analytics
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Jeff Luhnow the former General Manager of the Houston Astros and the current owner of soccer teams in Mexico and Spain.Jeff will ex...
Regime Change at the FED
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s podcast is a conversation that includes former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and my old boss Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes. There is no fre...
Building the Perfect Stock Portfolio
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s podcast was recorded previously at Stanford at an event to honor my old boss and close friend Myron Scholes who won the Nobel Prize in Econo...
There is No Free Will
15 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker will be Robert Sapolsky who is a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford as well as the author of numerous books including Why Zebr...
The Future of Working From Home
08 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker will be Nick Bloom who is a Stanford Professor of Economics. Nick is a leader in the research on working from home. Nick will explain the...
Paul Kennedy: Allies Conquer Japan
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker will be Yale historian Paul Kennedy who is well known for his classic book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. This will be the final p...
Secular Intolerance of Religious Jews
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker will be Jason Bedrick who is a Research Fellow at the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation. Jason is also the author of ...
Abolishing the FBI and Why Some Men Don't Work?
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first speaker will be Harvey Silverglate who is one of America’s top defense lawyers. Harvey has represented criminal defendants in some of the ...
Internships
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Parents and kids spend a lot of time worrying about getting into college. But as soon as they enroll, their next concern is landing a big internship...
You Can't Teach That!
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker will be John Ellis who is the former Dean of the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Professor of German Literature. The topic i...
War Games: China Invades Taiwan
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Fontaine and his team at the Center for a New American Security or CNAS developed war games with retired defense officials and members of cong...
Putin and Ukraine
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker will be Mark Galeotti who is the author of the books We Need to Talk About Putin and The Weaponization of Everything. Mark will speak ab...
Operation Warp Speed
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker is Paul Mango who helped manage Operation Warp Speed as the former deputy chief of the US Health and Human Services. He has just written...
Rise of Authoritarianism
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first speaker is Moises Naim who is a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of the new book entitled Revenge of ...
Paul Kennedy Series: 1943: The Year that Decided the Outcome of WW2
30 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker is Paul Kennedy is the J Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale. He has a new book out entitled Victory at Sea: Naval Power an...
Partisanship and Religion and the Importance of Innovation in Politics
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first speaker will be Michele Margolis who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Michele has a new b...
INFLATION!
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first speaker is John Taylor who is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford. John is famous for developing the Taylor Rule....
Eyewitness Account of the Highland Park Massacre
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I was born and raised in Glencoe which is a couple of miles from the killing zone. My friends and family were at the Highland Park parade. Today, we w...
Future of the City
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our speaker is Deyan Sudjic who is the former director of the Design Museum in London and the author of the book the Language of Cities.I want to lear...
Paul Kennedy Series: Battle of the Atlantic and War in the Mediterranean & Denial of Speech on Campus
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first speaker is Yale Historian Paul Kennedy. This is part 2 of our upcoming four-part history on WW2. I want to take you back to 1942 when nobody...