What Happens Next in 6 Minutes

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 writers’ strike is over. Kay Hymowitz is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of the book Manning Up: How the Rise of Women has Turned Men into Boys. Debbie Warren loved Barbies as a child and wrote her graduate school application essay on collaboration when playing with barbies as a kid. Darren Schwartz is the What Happens Next film critic and will discuss why is this movie is so funny and entertaining. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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

Anthony Bradley is the Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton Institute and a Professor of Interdisciplinary and Theological Studies at Kuyper College. He is also the author of the book Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 the book Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 North Carolina related to gerrymandering and whether the state courts can overrule the state legislature’s redistricting maps. Renée Flaherty is the attorney who successfully argued the case of Jackson v. Raffensperger in the Georgia Supreme Court. This case is about the limits of state authority to regulate occupations. Jackson teaches new mothers how to breastfeed, but the state changed the licensing requirements demanding that she meet minimum education requirements that would prevent her from doing her chosen profession which is counseling lactation care. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 Justice and he is also on the faculty at Stanford’s School of Education.Rick was previously the co-host for this podcast What Happens Next during most of 2020. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 written the AP Tests. Patrick has also taught the US History survey class that is available from the Teaching Company’s Great Courses. Annie Abrams is the author of the new book entitled Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students. Annie teaches AP English at the NYC magnet high school Bronx Science. We will hear from Annie about her concerns related to teaching for the AP tests, and how it affects high school English pedagogy. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 American Child. I hope to learn from Betsy about why school choice will improve educational outcomes. I also want to hear about how COVID changed the relationship between parents and schools, and whether some students might benefit from vocational training instead of a college track curriculum.Darren Schwartz is the What Happens Next movie critic. We are going to discuss three films. The first is the documentary Waiting for Superman which is about the success of charter schools. We will then review two classic films on teenage angst: the ridiculous and stupid comedy classic Superbad and the romantic comedy Easy A. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Arnette Heintze worked in law enforcement and the Secret Service. In the Secret Service he worked the detail protecting Presidents Bush and Clinton and was awarded the US Secret Service Valor Award for heroism. Arnette operated for 15 years Hillard Heintze which is a security and investigative firm used by many of the country’s largest firms. Tom Sancton is the author of the book The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping that Brought Down an Empire. The book is fabulous, and it tells the true story of a targeted kidnapping of one of France’s leading industrialists. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Jennifer Sciubba has written a book entitled 8 Billion and Counting. I am fascinated by the field of demographics because population growth is critical in determining a nation’s future political and economic power. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 for the Good in Bad English. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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

Ashoka Mody is a Professor in International Economic Policy at Princeton. He is the author of the book India is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Ingo Trauschweizer is a Professor of Military History at Ohio University. He recently wrote a biography entitled Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone. Rick is most famous co-hosting this podcast What Happens Next during the second half of 2020. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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.com/subscribe

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.com/subscribe

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 Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 portfolios of low cost ETFs focused on delivering attractive risk-adjusted, after-tax returns for clients. You will hear directly from Vic about these ideas and you can learn more from his website elmwealth.com.Myron Scholes won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to options theory. This is just a tiny fraction of his many contributions to finance. Myron will speak today about the importance of diversification both across assets and time. Myron was an early advocate of low cost index funds and believes that you need to dynamically change your investment portfolio when market risk conditions change. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 Associate Dean at the UPenn Medical School and the author of Take 2 Aspirin and Call me by my Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is Destroying American Medicine. Stanley will discuss how DEI is harming medical schools’ curriculum and medical care. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 two months ago to be a litigation partner at Latham and Watkins. Gary presided over 48 jury trials, and I want to learn from Gary about what he learned watching juries from his vantage point as a judge.Our third guest is David Stellings a law partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. David is one of the top class action lawyers in the country and represented the class in the famous VW Diesel Case, David will discuss the challenges working with a jury in complex civil litigation.Our final speaker will be the What Happens Next film critic Darren Schwartz who will review the classic 1957 film 12 Angry Men and its continuing relevance to understanding the innerworkings of jury deliberation.There is much to cover so buckle up. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 relationship with his brother William, the next in line to be king. Why Harry decided to give up his royal responsibilities. And Tina will explain why she believes that the monarchy will survive and prosper. There is much to cover so buckle up. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 agenda and the House’s power in negotiating with the President.We will also hear from Tennessee Republican Congressman Mark Green who will describe the internal squabbles that he witnessed during this historic 4-day saga on the House floor to pick the Speaker, and I plan to ask Mark about what this means for the Republicans going forward during this term.There is much to cover so buckle up. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 Law School and works with the Kohelet Policy Forum on legal reforms related to Israel’s Supreme Court. Israel’s Supreme Court has been flexing its muscle lately and has rejected the Knesset’s laws that it feels are unreasonable including political compromises on the military draft as well as firing a cabinet minister that it viewed as unqualified because of previous legal troubles. We will hear from Eugene about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms and the hysteria it has triggered in Israel’s legal community. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 portfolios of low cost ETFs focused on delivering attractive risk-adjusted, after-tax returns for clients. You will hear directly from Vic about these ideas and you can learn more from his website elmwealth.com.Myron Scholes won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to options theory. This is just a tiny fraction of his many contributions to finance. Myron will speak today about the importance of diversification both across assets and time. Myron was an early advocate of low cost index funds and believes that you need to dynamically change your investment portfolio when market risk conditions change. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 immigrants with skills. Garett believes that the success of immigrants’ descendants is a function of the culture imbued from the old country. In addition, the immigrants social and cultural mores will affect America’s social mores as well, so be very careful who you let in. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 and LeBron are team owners. Steve is incredibly creative and highly excitable. You are going to love Steve. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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/subscribe

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 met Claudia when she was the Director of the ICA Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. I’ve asked Claudia to tell us about her new exhibit at the Jewish Museum entitled New York: 1962-1964 which is showing until January 8. This show is fantastic, and I encourage all of you to see this provocative and interesting exhibit. I hope to learn from Claudia how she and her team came to produce this show, and the challenges that they faced making it happen during COVID. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 conversation with Ashley Mears who is a a sociologist at Boston University, and the author of the book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. I wanted to contrast the bar scene at a cool bar with bottle service at a hip club. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 their voting share in very blue urban districts and very red rural districts which didn’t help Republicans win additional seats. We plan on going deep with the political analysis now that all the votes have been counted. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 who we are as a society. The downside is that these questions highlight differences in our national identity.Our second speaker is George Mason Law Professor David Bernstein who is the author of the book Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America. The answer to the question whether you are White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, or other has consequences. It can determine who gets a government contract, a job or is admitted to a select college. Should the government be in the racial classification business, and do government imposed racial classifications undermine our societal objective to live in a multi-racial society? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 germline. Hank will discuss whether the science is sufficiently advanced and that the risk/reward makes sense for babies and can the scientific community police itself to adopt appropriate safety procedures before doing this genetic manipulation again. Our second speaker is Jacob Appel who is making his third appearance on What Happens Next. Jacob teaches medical ethics at Mt. Sinai Medical School, and he will provide us with an ethical framework to evaluate human genetic testing. Genetic engineering on babies is coming soon, now what? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 to farm to table, placed table in the restaurant’s kitchen, and eliminated hard liquor and foie gras from the menu. Charlie Trotter influenced many of the great top chefs of his generation and demanded excellence from everyone around him. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 ball to another player?Our second speaker will be University of Michigan economist Stefan Szymanski who is the author of Soccernomics. Our discussion will focus on the economics of all thing’s soccer including why European soccer owners lose money, and why do certain soccer positions take most of the earnings. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 leader in the field what goes on behind the scenes. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 under control will require a regime change at the Fed. This will not be an easy battle to fight, and you should expect chaotic market movements. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 balancing risk and reward by maximizing diversification.Our second speaker will be Jonathan Levin who is the Dean of Stanford’s Graduate Business School. Jon will explain how Myron Scholes’ ideas have shaped academic research in finance and how his models have been applied by investment professionals.Our third speaker is Victor Haghani. Vic and I worked together at Salomon Brothers before he left to be one of the founding partners at Long-Term Capital Management. Vic will answer the question, how much should you gamble when you have an excellent investment. Vic’s ideas are very important, because most of us focus on what to invest in and spend little time wondering how big to bet? And whether to increase or decrease the wager when uncertainty and volatility increases or decreases over time.Our fourth speaker is my good friend Bruce Tuckman who teaches at NYU’s Stern Business School and is the former Chief Economist of the CFTC. Bruce will discuss the benefits that derivatives like interest rate swaps and commodity futures provide hedgers and investors.Our final speaker today will be Myron Scholes who will discuss the best ways to adjust your portfolio if you are concerned about ESG. Some market participants who are concerned about carbon emissions are selling shares in their polluters, but Myron thinks that investment managers should first optimize the portfolio and then buy carbon credits to maximize returns while minimizing carbon in the environment. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 complicated, but Robert will argue that there is no little man in your head making the decisions. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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, and substantial R&D is being to improve the zoom experience with dozens of cameras to make it seem like we are together. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 because their classes are taught in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic.The New York Times concluded that these Yeshivas do not serve the public interest because the kids graduate with few job prospects and little earnings power which is unfair and unjust.New York State provides funding for the schools and therefore, they argue that the Yeshivas should be coerced into a state mandated curriculum.Jason plans to rebut the New York Times accusations, and he will explain the animosity particularly by Jewish secular progressive leaders with the most religious Jewish Hasidic sects.Jason believes that parents should decide how their children are educated and that we should be tolerant of those that choose a religious life. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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 FBI needs to be shut down, the staff fired, and a new national police force needs to be created to handle national crimes. This will be a provocative discussion.Our second speaker is Nick Eberstadt who is the American Enterprise Institute Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy. Nick is the author of the book Men Without Work, and the second edition of the book will be released tomorrow.Nick is going to discuss the steady increase in the number of men who are 25 to 54 who do not work and are not looking for work. We are going to find out who these men are, what they do all day, and whether they are happy. And finally, we are going to hear about what public policies may have exacerbated this problem and what we can do about it. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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