What Happens Next in 6 Minutes

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 and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports. Paul will discuss which sports your kids should play. Why South Koreans dominate women’s golf? And how does game theory inform us whether Michael Jordan should take the last shot or pass the...

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 explain how owners use sports analytics to draft and trade players. How to use game theory to improve strategy for penalty kicks. And how to use metrics to improve player development.  The Moneyball culture has changed sports and you will hear from a le...

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 free lunch and Kevin will explain how excessive government spending has resulted in a surge in inflation and changed the behavior of ordinary Americans on how they spend, save, and take risks. The inflation genie is out of the bottle, and to get inflation...

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 Economics.   Our first speaker will be Andy Lo who is a Finance Professor at MIT, and he will discuss his book In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio. Andy interviewed a dozen leaders in academic finance and top practitioners about how to design a portfolio ba...

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 Zebra Don’t Get Ulcers and Behave.   Robert believes that you do not have any free will.  That instead your behavior is dictated by a complex combination of factors that include genes, environment, hormones, glucose levels, and epigenetic events.  It is...

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 growing dominance of hybrid work for certain segments of our economy. It turns out that hybrid work increases productivity for some employees, and it makes them happy. Technologists are aware that work from home has changed the nature of employment,...

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 podcast of his four-part podcast series on the history of World War 2.  Today’s podcast will focus on the battles beginning in 1944 and ending with Japan’s unconditional surrender. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstei...

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 the book Religious Liberty and Education. The New York Times had a recent 5-page story about the inadequacies of NYC Yeshiva Schools.  This two-year investigation concluded that the students in the most religious schools had inadequate English skills...

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 most famous cases.  He has taught at Harvard Law School and has been the Chairman of the Board of the ACLU’s Massachusetts Affiliate.  Harvey is an expert on the FBI and he feels that the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover haunts the FBI, and as a result, the FB...

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, because it may help in landing a job after graduation. On today’s program, I want to focus on three issues.  How do kids get an internship?  What would be an ideal internship for a particular individual?  And what skill building should the inter foc...

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 is the corruption of the Humanities, and what this means for the University. I’ve raided the What Happens Next archives to find additional material that supports John Ellis’s discussion. We are going to hear from Arnold Weinstein who is a Professor of...

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 congress.  A few days ago, there were war games to see what happens if China were to invade Taiwan. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 about Putin’s war objectives and his implementation strategy. A couple of months ago the Russian government banned Mark from entering the country. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.co...

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 a new book entitled Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID, the Critics and the Odds. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 Power. Moises will tell us about how populism, polarization, and post-truth undermine the democratic process.  And that there is a global trend in the past few decades away from democracies towards more authoritarian regimes. Our second speaker will...

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 and the Transformation of the Global Order in WW2. This episode Part 3 will focus on the fateful year 1943 when the war was won.  Paul will tell us why the US decided to invade North Africa instead of Europe, as a trial balloon. Why North Africa was fol...

Our first speaker will be Michele Margolis who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.  Michele has a new book entitled From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity. Michele believes that most political scientists misunderstand the role of religion and partisanship. The commonly held view is that religi...

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. John will explain his Taylor rule for setting the optimal short-term interest rate and why interest rates need to rise to quell rising inflation. Our second speaker is Casey Mulligan who is the Ken Griffin Professor of Economics at University of Chi...

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 will hear from my brother-in-law David Baum who is married to my wife’s sister Debra. And then we will hear from David’s daughter Brittany Wroblewski who is my niece. Brittany marched in the parade with her son Blake moments before the shooting began....

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 learn from Deyan why its important that cities give you freedom with its anonymity and how that differs from village life. Deyan will re-examine some of Jane Jacobs insights on city life in the present day, and he will evaluate the success and failure o...

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 knew who would win the war. The Nazis had just conquered France after a few weeks of fighting, and the Americans had been humiliated at Pearl Harbor. U-Boats were everywhere in the Atlantic and were torpedoing America’s Merchant Marine. Paul will ex...

Our first speaker today will be Sean Berkowitz who successfully defended Michael Sussmann of felony charges that he lied to the FBI about the Trump investigation. Sean will give us the inside look from the defendant’s perspective. Sean is an old friend of mine. We attended Hebrew School together and we were opponents in high school debate tournaments. Sean claims he won. Sean is also famous for be...

Our first speaker is Chris Doyle who is a tax partner with Hodgson Russ who represents wealthy individuals who move to places like the Hamptons or Miami to avoid paying New York City income taxes. The tax authorities will be coming gun blazing to get their money. Chris Doyle will explain the issues and how to plan your life if you want to get out of high tax jurisdictions. Our second speaker is Pr...

Our speaker is Paul Kennedy who is the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale. Paul is one of our greatest living historians and he will discuss the battle between the US and Japanese in the Pacific during WW2. Today’s session will be the first in a four-part series with Paul Kennedy. Today’s podcast will be followed-up with The Battle of the Atlantic, The Normandy...

Our first speaker will be John McGinnis who is the George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law. John will evaluate Justice Alito’s Dobbs opinion and the originalist approach to jurisprudence. Our second speaker will be Howard Husock who is the Senior Fellow of Domestic Policy Studies at AEI. Howard will be speaking about the political implications of over...