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John Bolton was Trump's National Security Advisor in his first administration. John will discuss why the Americans are frustrated with the Europeans underwhelming investment in their own defense. We will discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, America's ongoing security interests on the European continent, and whether it makes sense to kick Turkey out of NATO. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Craig Symonds is the author of the book, Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings. Craig is a Professor of History at the US Naval Academy. I want to learn from Craig about the unexpected challenges of the allied invasion at Normandy. And I want Craig to explain what distinguished the great allied generals on the battlefield.Our second speaker today will be with our What Happens Next Culture Critic Darren Schwartz. We are going to review the movie Patton that starred George C. Scott that won multiple Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Craig Symonds is the author of the book, Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings. Craig is a Professor of History at the US Naval Academy. I want to learn from Craig about how US and British military planners conceived of the D-Day invasion, what equipment was required for this amphibious attack, and what the challenges were there against such a formidable foe. This podcast is a first of a two-part series with Craig on the war against the Germans.Our second speaker today will be with our What Happens Next Culture Critic Darren Schwartz. We are going to review Steven Spielberg's classic movie Saving Private Ryan about our invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Robert Kaplan is the author of a new book entitled, Waste Land. We are going to hear why the world is in permanent instability and that we should expect ongoing conflict in economics, trade, migration, and on the battlefield. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Lindsey Burke is the Director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation. I will ask Lindsey about the implications of firing most of the workers in the Department of Education. I want to know what is going to happen with the ongoing responsibilities for this department and how work that is statutorily required will be performed by other government agencies. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Christine Rosen is the author of a new book entitled The Extinction of Experience. I want to discuss how our interaction with new technologies might be problematic to our mental health and wellbeing. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Gene Hackman and his wife were found dead recently in their Santa Fe home. Today I am joined by The What Happens Next Culture Critic Darren Schwartz to evaluate Hackman's performances in some of his most popular movies. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

H.W. Brands is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Bill is a two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist who will discuss his biography Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. Andrew Jackson was the first populist president. He attacked the established norms for governing and that caused turmoil in Washington. Several of my friends have commented on the similarities between Jackson and Trump, so I thought it would be worthwhile to do a podcast and dig deep into the history to see what relevance there might have for today's politics. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

James Danckert is a cognitive neuroscientist and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo. James is the co-author of the book Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom. I want to learn from James about the relationship between boredom and personal agency. And I want to discuss how using new technologies like the smartphone to alleviate boredom might be problematic.  Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Nicholas Griffin is the author of a Year of Dangerous Days. Miami was not the beautiful and successful metropolitan city that it is now 45 years ago. I want to find out from Nick why the Columbians used Miami as their US entry point for distributing cocaine and why that resulted in so much violence. I want to learn about what caused a massive race riot in Miami that led to the burning of over 200 buildings. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Eugene Kontorovich is a Professor of Law at George Mason and his father Vladimir Kontorovich is a Professor of Economics at Haverford. Eugene and Vladimir have observed that topics which were forbidden to be discussed can now be debated openly, and that this parallels the Gorbachev-era in the Soviet Union. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Nicholas Eberstadt will describe the current collapse in the global birth rate and what the implications are for business, housing, and warfare. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

John Ellis is the former Dean of the Graduate School at The University of California at Santa Cruz. He is also the author of a new book entitled A Short History of Relations Between Peoples: How the World Began to Move Beyond Tribalism. John will explain why this subject is verboten in American university classrooms, graduate work, and history journals. I want to learn how British imperialism made the world a better place. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Vicky Collison will give us a firsthand account of what it was like to fight the fires in the Palisades. I first met Vicky immediately after graduating from college when we were in the Salomon Brothers Corporate Finance Training Program in 1987.Our second speaker is Gerald Posner who will talk about the public policy failures for fire mitigation in LA, with particular concern about DEI. Gerald joined us several times previously on What Happens Next. He previously spoke about the JFK Assassination Part 1 and Part 2 as well as the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. He also joined us to discuss his new book on the opioid crisis. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Ed Glaeser is a Professor of Economics at Harvard and the author of Triumph of the City. I want to learn from Ed what the key issues are for rebuilding of the Pacific Palisades. How long will it take to for the victims of the fires to move in? What the implications are for permitting and zoning, and should the residents opt for a major redesign of the entire city by increasing density. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Scott Turow is the author of the newly released courtroom thriller Presumed Guilty and the best selling book Presumed Innocent that was made into a movie and recently into a TV series. I want to learn from Scott about why the jury is biased against the defendant, how race influences the legal strategy, what it costs these days to defend in a murder case, and why you should not take the stand in your own defense.Darren Schwartz is the What Happens Next culture critic. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

H. W. Brands is the author of the book America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War. Trump has indicated that his foreign policy will place America's interests first following a long tradition in this country. We need to reexamine the debate prior to America's entry into World War 2 and hear Lindbergh's arguments about why we should stay out of wars in Europe. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Jim Zelter is the co-President of Apollo. Jim will discuss the growing dominance of Private Credit lending and the disintermediation of banks. Current corporate capital expenditures require enormous sums of long-term capital to build computer chip factories, data centers, and energy projects. These long duration assets should not be funded by short-term depositors. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Michael Vickers was the Defense Department's top civilian military intelligence officer under Obama. He is also the author of the book By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations and Strategy. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Darren Schwartz is the What Happens Next Movie Critic. Darren and I will discuss all aspects of the blockbuster movie Wicked including, the decision to split the movie into two parts, whether the 2-hour 40-minute run time was appropriate, as well as the key casting decisions. We will also debate Wicked's Oscar chances, compare it to other classic films, and generally cause mayhem. Let's get started. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Craig Symonds is a Maritime History Professor at the US Naval Academy and the author of the book Nimitz at War. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Admiral James Stavridis is the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and the former Dean of the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Admiral Stavridis is the author of 14 books and his most recent is a work of fiction called The Restless Wave which is a novel set during World War 2. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker is Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton. We are going to hear about the next administration's foreign policy and why Israel should attack Iran's nuclear facilities before Trump even takes the oath of office. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Eric Adelstein is a partner at AL Media. Eric and his firm worked on the Harris Campaign as part of its media team. I want to hear firsthand about what the challenges were of running a 100-day presidential campaign with a $1.5 billion budget. What were the headwinds that Harris faced? What were the lessons learned? And what does Trump's victory mean for running future presidential campaigns? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the President of the American Action Forum and the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Douglas will discuss the implications of the impending explosion in entitlement spending, and the coming crowding out of discretionary and defense spending.  Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

John Haltiwanger is a Professor of Economics at Maryland and a specialist in new businesses. I want to hear from John about the growing importance of new firms to increase productivity and provide job growth. In addition, I want to learn about how the movement towards self-employed and 1099 independent contractors will influence the job market. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Betsey Stevenson is a Professor of Economics at Michigan. Betsey is also the former Chief Economist at the Department of Labor. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Patrick Ruffini is a pollster with Echelon Insights and he is also the author of the book Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP.  Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the author of the new book entitled Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women. I am going to ask Batya to focus her comments on why Trump appeals to Working Class Americans.Corey Fields is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown and the author of a book entitled Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans. I want Corey to explain why the Republicans have historically been unsuccessful in attracting Black people and if it will be different in the upcoming presidential election. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Marty Eichenbaum is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern. Marty wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal last week where he argued that the focus on American manufacturing jobs is misplaced, and that our economy has moved on to services. Manufacturing jobs were good jobs in the 1950s but no longer. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

John Sullivan was formerly the US Ambassador to Russia during the Trump and Biden Administrations and previously Deputy Secretary of State. John just published a new book entitled Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Maurice Samuels is a Professor of French at Yale and the director of their Program for the Study of Antisemitism. Maurice is the author of a new book entitled Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Neil Shubin is a Professor of Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and the Provost of the Field Museum of Natural History. He is the author of a new book entitled Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life from Ancient Fossils to DNA. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Jay Greene is a Senior Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy and previously was the Department Chair at the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform. Jay is probably best known as my debate partner at New Trier High School. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Peter Moskos is the author of the books Cop in the Hood as well as In Defense of Flogging. Peter is a Professor in the Department of Law and Political Science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. I want to find out from Peter what it is like policing in the Eastern District of Baltimore when he was a police officer and why he thinks we need to reconsider physical punishment in lieu of incarceration.    Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Michael Walzer is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has previously taught politics and government at Princeton and Harvard as well. Michael has written the leading book in his field entitled Just and Unjust Wars. I want to discuss with him his moral philosophy of war and then apply it to the current conflict in Gaza. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Scott Turow is the author of the novel Presumed Innocent which has recently been adapted into an 8-part Apple TV miniseries. I want to learn from Scott about adapting his novels to film. I also want to hear his views on copyright and whether it serves public policy to give authors control over their books and derivative work for their lifetime plus 70 years. And most importantly I want to hear from Scott about what he thought about the new radically different Presumed Innocent miniseries.Darren Schwartz is the What Happens Next Film Critic. I plan to ask Darren to compare the miniseries with the novel and the 1990 Harrison Ford movie.  I would also like Darren to comment on how the change in our social mores forced a change in its plot and characters.  Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Kurt Schmoke is the President of the University of Baltimore. Kurt served 12 years as the Mayor of Baltimore and 8 years as a prosecutor, and he came to oppose the Federal War on Drugs. I want to find out from Kurt if drug legalization has reduced violence and made our communities safer? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker will be Daniel Diermeier who is the Chancellor of Vanderbilt. I want to discuss with Daniel what caused the current chaos on college campuses and whether universities would be better served by remaining neutral on controversial political matters. I want to understand what the objectives of the university are and how free speech and civil discourse on campus fits into that.  Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Gerald Posner is the author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. You may recall that Gerald and I recorded a two-part podcast series on Oswald and JFK that could be found here and here. I want to discuss with Gerald what we have learned so far about Trump's alleged assassin, what was the extent of the security failure, and why we Americans gravitate so quickly to conspiracy theories on both the right and left.  Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Dean Adler co-founded Lubert-Adler 27 years ago and focuses on investing in institutional real estate. Dean's firm has over $17 billion of assets under management. Dean is an expert in investing in residential and office buildings across the capital stack.  Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Richard Fontaine is the CEO of the foreign policy think tank The Center for New American Security. Richard is also the co-author with Ambassador Blackwill of a new book entitled Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power. I want to find out from Richard about how to contain Chinese economic and military power. I also want to hear about the trouble China is causing with international organizations 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

Michael McConnell is a Stanford Law professor and today we will discuss the Chevron Doctrine. The Supreme Court has just repealed the Chevron Doctrine in one of the Supreme Court's most important rulings of the year. This decision ends judicial deference for interpretations made by bureaucrats in the Federal agencies. For the past 40 years, the Supreme Court has allowed bureaucratic experts to interpret ambiguous statutes if their analysis was reasonable. No more. Now decision making goes back to the judiciary on how to interpret the law. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Eric Kaufmann is a Professor of Politics at The University of Buckingham and the author of the book entitled, The Third Awokening: a 12 Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism. Eric uses a different title in the UK for the same book, which is Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Luke Nichter is the author of the new book entitled The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968. After LBJ decided not to seek another term, the election was wide open for the candidates Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

James Holmes is the J.C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College. Naval technology is changing rapidly, and I want to learn if the US fleet is capable of repelling a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, and what that conflict would look like. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Eugene Kontorovich is a Professor of Law and the Executive Director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at the George Mason Antonin Scalia Law School.  He also works with the Israeli think tank The Kohelet Policy Forum.Greg Townsend is a former prosecutor who worked for the ICC tribunals in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Lebanon. He is also a lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Professor of Practice at Brandeis University, based in The Hague, and advisor on the International Criminal Court's Advisory Committee on Legal Texts. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Greg Townsend worked for the ICC tribunals in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Lebanon. I want to learn from Greg what the next steps will be in the ICC judicial process for the Israeli officials. Why they are being charged? And how this will all eventually play out. I also want to figure out whether these international institutions are in the Western democracies interest or if they have been co-opted by bad actors. I want to find out if Israel can legally defend itself if Hamas uses human shields. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

David Bellos is a Professor of Literature at Princeton. David has a new book entitled Who Owns This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs. I am interested in learning from David the rationale for Copyright. Is the term of 95 years for most copyrights too long? And should we be looking to extend copyright to such things as fashion or should we be restricting its use to derivative works? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Harold Holzer won the Lincoln Prize for his book Lincoln and the Power of the Press. Harold has a new book entitled Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. I want to learn from Harold why Lincoln encouraged more Europeans to move to the US. Many were Catholics from Ireland and Germany who were generally viewed as potential Democratic voters. How did Lincoln persuade the immigrants to fight and support the Republicans during the civil war? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Michael Wexler is a partner with the law firm Seyfarth where he specializes in trade secrets, corporate espionage, and employment restrictive covenants. I met Michael 12 years ago at the Father-Son event at Camp Horseshoe in Rhinelander Wisconsin and became friends.Josh Soven is a partner at Paul Weiss. Josh learned his trade working for the US Department of Justice's Anti-Trust Division and at the Federal Trade Commission. I met Josh in our first class in college an English Seminar called the Malcontent in the Novel.  We became college roommates and have been close friends for nearly 40 years. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe