What Happens Next in 6 Minutes

Larry Bernstein
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Apr 22, 2023 • 53min

How the Railroad Made America

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
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Apr 15, 2023 • 58min

Remembering the Waco Inferno

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
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Apr 8, 2023 • 32min

Heckling a Federal Judge at Stanford Law School

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
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Apr 1, 2023 • 33min

How will the Ukraine War End?

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
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Mar 25, 2023 • 33min

Making Learning Easy

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
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Mar 19, 2023 • 27min

Run on the Banks!

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
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Mar 18, 2023 • 34min

Parents Paying for the Party!

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
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Mar 11, 2023 • 29min

The Opioid Crisis

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
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Mar 4, 2023 • 45min

How Should I Invest My Money? (Classic)

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
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Mar 3, 2023 • 55min

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureaucracy Under Attack

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

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