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The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack is joined today by Rupert Darwall and Power Hour regular, Mario Loyola, to discuss Rupert’s latest report, “ The Folly of Climate Leadership: Net zero and Britain’s Disastrous Energy Policies .”  Rupert’s report uses facts and numbe...

Join Heritage education experts Jonathan Butcher and Lindsey Burke, AEI’s Brad Wilcox, and Florida Board of Education Member Grazie Christie for an insightful exploration of the “success sequence”- a transformative set of decisions guiding young people toward enhanced life outcomes into early adulthood. Uncover valuable insights into the newly released  blueprint from Heritage  that scho...

Agenda Introductory Remarks James J. Carafano Ph. D. , Senior Counselor to the President and E.W. Richardson Fellow, The Heritage Foundation Keynote Address Péter Törcsi , Deputy Director General, Center for Fundamental Rights Panel I: Perspectives from Europe Jay Richards, Ph. D. , Director, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, The Heritage Foundation  (Moderator) E...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. We all love a good David versus Goliath story. This week’s guest, Diana Nielson, is engaged in just such a fight in real life. Diana is leading a community effort to save their surrounding community from major wind and solar projects tha...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Were you wondering how China could use its expertise in electric vehicles to challenge the United States? Well Jack welcomes Center for Energy, Climate and Environment Director (and his boss) Diana Furchtgott-Roth to the Powerhour to discuss...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack welcomes two leading experts on nuclear energy this week for a conversation about where we stand with SMR technology. Join us for this informative and entertaining episode with Mathew Mairinger, President of the North American Young Generatio...

America has been a notably hard-working society for most of its history—but has become much less so in recent decades. Labor-force participation, especially among men of prime working age, has fallen to levels not seen since the Great Depression and is particularly low in certain regions of the Middle West and South. The decline of work has coincided with declining health status and longevity and...

Our nation has fallen behind the threat from China. Beijing’s ongoing maritime aggression and numerous war games have cast doubt on whether our Navy can sustain peace or win in war. Making matters worse, the nation’s shipping, shipbuilding, and merchant marine, on which the nation relies to supply its forces abroad and economy at home, has atrophied to a dangerous state. This vulnerability invites...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack welcomes Heritage colleagues Annie Chestnut Tudor and Mario Loyola this week to discuss the tech industry and its projected energy requirements. Annie is a leading expert in technology policy and Mario, a recent Power Hour guest, knows m...

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump should be struck from the ballot for violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which applies to certain officials who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion. Does this Section apply to the former President? Can state officials enforce it in the absence of an implementing statute from Congress? Does this Section still appl...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. We are joined today by Isaac Orr of the Center for the American Experiment. Isaac is an expert on the electricity grid and explains how poor policy choices are leading to instability in our electric supplies. In fact, Isaac has done the...

Big Tech overreach has devastated American youth. Join The Heritage Foundation for expert commentary following Senate testimony from the CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord on their failures to protect children online. Our program will highlight innovative policy solutions that state and federal leaders can leverage today to safeguard our kids online, beginning with a fireside chat between...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joins Heritage to underscore the needs for increased and sustained defense spending across the NATO alliance, more balanced burden-sharing, and the ramping up of defense production to rise to the challenges of this pivotal moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most Americans do not realize the sorry state the U.S. military is in. Following years of overextension, deployments, and a lack of prioritizing defense spending on what is needed to fight and win America’s wars, the military is far from the strong force built by Ronald Reagan to defeat the Soviets. The tenth edition of The Heritage Foundation’s Index of U.S. Military Strength makes that clear. Wi...

Since the horrific atrocities committed by Hamas against innocent Israeli babies, children, men, and women on October 7, 2023, we have witnessed an alarming rise in antisemitic incidents in the U.S. In response, Heritage and partner organizations launched the National Task Force to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism in the United States. Join us for the first public meeting with keynote remarks by fo...

Every American has felt the effects of the staggering surge in inflation in the past few years. In the U.S. and other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the rise in inflation strongly relates to increases in transfer payments since 2020, the start of the COVID pandemic. Heritage Distinguished Fellow in Economic Thought Dr. Robert Barro has researched th...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a conversation with one of The Heritage Foundation’s top legal experts, Jack Fitzhenry. We often don’t think about the Supreme Court when we think about energy and environmental policy, but we should, because it matter...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a conversation with former nuclear industry insider and nuclear fuel expert, CJ Milmoe about America’s dependence on Russian nuclear fuel. While the U.S. was quick to ban Russian oil and natural gas imports after Putin...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a conversation with Heritage Foundation experts Kevin Dayaratna and Miles Pollard on their new report,  Powering Human Advancement: Why the World Needs Reliable and Affordable Energy . The timely report presents i...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast where we discuss the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Gabriella Hoffman, Director, Center for Energy and Conservation at the Independent Women's Forum joins Jack this week for a discussion on how conservatives are the real conservationists and why conservative values provide the best environmental...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a riveting conversation with novelist, Jon Pepper, to discuss his new book, Missy’s Twitch, which is a satirical take on the climate alarmism taking over modern society.  Jack and Jon dive deep into...

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform our country. While we expect AI to enhance productivity and engender other workplace and lifestyle benefits, widespread adoption could also threaten many pillars of society we take for granted. Join The Heritage Foundation as we convene an expert panel to discuss the core risks policymakers should consider as they debate the next frontier of technolog...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. In this episode, Jack sits down with the one and only Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.  Jack and Myron undertake a wide-ranging discussion on everything from the United Nation’s climate conference process to why gover...

The bipartisan, congressionally mandated Strategic Posture Commission issued its  Final Report  in October, concluding that America's defense strategy and strategic posture must change in order to properly protect its vital interests and improve strategic stability with China and Russia. In this rapidly changing world, our nuclear policy needs to be reevaluated to most effectively deter...

The horrific attacks on Israel have served as a striking illustration of the moral rot present on American college campuses. Countless professors, DEI staff, and students have celebrated the slaughter and proclaimed their support for terrorist actions. Disturbingly, this is the result of decades of American colleges and universities neglecting their responsibility to shape their students into virt...