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