What Happens Next in 6 Minutes

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 American Railroads. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 Religious History. And we welcome back the What Happens Next film and TV critic, Darren Schwartz. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 Hoover Institution.  He is also the author of the book the President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution. Rick is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford, and the author of the book Is Marriage for White People?...

Stephen Biddle is a Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.  Stephen previously worked for General Petraeus in Iraq and General McChrystal in Afghanistan. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy. We are going to hear about how to be smarter about learning new material in school and in life. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes....

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 financial system and international banking regulatory matters.  Today Nicolas will discuss the radical change in US policy for uninsured bank deposits. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes....

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.  Laura is interested in how socio-economic status influences who goes to college, how students perform, their job prospects, and their marriage market.  This discussion should be very provocative. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with...

Gerald Posner wrote the book Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America . Gerald will speak about the conflict that pharmaceutical firms face with their desire for advancing public health and their profit motive. We will also discuss the advancement of pain management care, fears of addiction, and the success and failures of OxyContin.  Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with...

Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes and Elm Wealth's Victor Haghani discuss the Golden Rules of Investing. Victor Haghani is a former Salomon Brothers colleague of mine and one of the founders of Long-Term Capital Management. A decade ago Victor founded a wealth advisor, Elm Wealth, as an extension of managing his family office.  I endorse Victor’s wealth management strategy that dynamically manages...

The first speaker will be Jay Greene from the Heritage Foundation who will discuss Florida Governor’s challenge to the DEI bureaucracy in Florida’s public universities. Jay and I were high school debate partners at New Trier in Winnetka, Illinois and are still very close friends. Our second speaker will be Dr. Stanley Goldfarb who runs a not for profit called Do No Harm.  Stanley is the former Ass...

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 democracy.  She is the author of the book Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life and Sonali will discuss how to expand jury nullification. Our second guest will be Retired Federal District Court Judge Gary Feinerman who left the bench...

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 New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Tina has written several other books including the Diana Chronicles as well as The Vanity Fair Diaries.  Tina will explain why the public is so fascinated with the Royal Family, the continuing deterioration of Prince Harry’s r...

Gisela Sin is a Political Science Professor at the University of Illinois and the author of the book entitled Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules. Gisela will explain what rule changes that McCarthy had to agree to get the necessary votes, and we will find out what the implications are for the legislative...

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 be on affirmative action, limiting state courts influence in elections, and interstate commerce.  Ilya spoke on this podcast previously about free speech.  Our second speaker is Eugene Kontorovich who is a Professor of International Law at George Mason’s...

Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes and Elm Wealth's Victor Haghani discuss the Golden Rules of Investing. Victor Haghani is a former Salomon Brothers colleague of mine and one of the founders of Long-Term Capital Management. A decade ago Victor founded a wealth advisor, Elm Wealth, as an extension of managing his family office.  I endorse Victor’s wealth management strategy that dynamically manages...

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 Untold Story of Immigrant Success and Garett wrote the book The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left.  Both speakers are pro-immigration, but Garett wants us to focus our efforts on recruiting imm...

Pickleball is the hottest sport in America. Player enthusiasm is off the charts. In my neighborhood in Miami Beach and my mothers in Sarasota, pickleball is the rage. This is becoming the norm. The game is fun to play and is open to all ages and skill level. And the people love it.  Today’s guest is my close friend Steve Kuhn who founded Major League Pickleball, you know the one where Tom Brady an...

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 the rewriting process? In the post development phase, how do you market a novel and sell the film rights, and generate excitement about the work so that booksellers can sell it? There is much to cover, so buckle up. Get full access to What Happens Next...

Lauren Rivera is a management professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School and the author of Pedigree: How Elite Students get Elite Jobs.  And our second speaker will be Beth Hendler-Grunt who is the author of The Next Great Step: The Parents’ Guide to Launching our New Grad into a Career. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/sub...

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 Miami during the Miami Art Basel Fair and I want to learn from her what she saw at the Fair and what does that mean for the state-of-the-art market. Our second speaker is Claudia Gould who is the Director of the Jewish Museum in New York. My wife and I me...

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-something working as a bartender at the trendy midtown restaurant Avra. Nina will give us a glimpse into the NY dating scene from her vantage point behind the bar.   I am also raiding the What Happens Next archive and I have selected excerpts from a...

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 Reagan and the Return of the Blue-Collar Conservatism. Henry will explain why there was no red wave in an election despite the Republicans winning the national popular vote by 3% or 3.2 million votes. Henry will explain how the Republicans improved thei...

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: The Hidden Stories in the US Census and How to Read Them.  Dan will speak about our ongoing governmental data collection to determine race, gender, and other personal information.  The search for these answers and ethnic classification informs us about...

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 Chinese scientist recently edited the genes in a human embryo with the purpose of improving that child’s defense to the HIV virus. Three children were born with these genetic enhancements and their progeny will carry those genetic changes in their germlin...

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 for streaming on Apple and Amazon on November 18th. The film is about the life of Top Chef Charlie Trotter who revolutionized American cuisine.  Charlie was a creative genius who used a different 10-course menu each day for 25 years.  He introduced us...