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Cape Fear Won’t Die

Our What Happens Next Culture Critic Darren Schwartz will be leading us in conversation. We also have a special guest my good friend Ethan Holland who has been a state pr

Can Evolution Explain Our Feelings?

Our speaker is Rob Kurzban who is the author of a new book entitled All the Feels: The Evolved Function of Every Human Emotion and Sensation. I want to learn from Rob ab

I Love Your Accent

Our speaker is Valerie Fridland who is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Nevada at Reno. She is the author of the new book entitled Why We Talk Funny: The R

Unsafe at MIT

Our speaker is Yossi Sheffi who is a Professor of Engineering at MIT and is a leading scholar in supply chain management. He is the author of a new book entitled Unsafe a

Appreciating George Orwell

Our speaker is Robert Colls who is the author of the Orwell biography entitled George Orwell: Life and Legacy. You know his novels 1984 and Animal Farm but there is so m

Is Nolan’s Odyssey a Masterpiece?

This episode is -- Is Nolan’s Odyssey a Masterpiece? Our speakers are Scott Turow the author of Presumed Innocent and Darren Schwartz the What Happens Next Culture Criti

Would You Have Been a Loyalist or a Patriot?

Our speaker to day is Patrick Allitt who is a Professor of History at Emory where he teaches courses in the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Patrick als

Why George Washington was the Unanimous Choice

Our speaker is H.W. Brands who is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of the biography American Patriarch: The Life of George Washi

Rocky at 50

The original Rocky film was released 50 years ago, and today we are going to review the entire Rocky series. Our discussion will be led by the What Happens Next Culture C

A Breakthrough in Restoring Memory

Our speaker is Michael Kahana who is one of the world’s leading experts on memory. He is a former Professor of Psychology at Penn, and he is now the founder of Nia Therap

Predicting the Midterms

Our speaker is Patrick Ruffini is a pollster and the author of his own Substack entitled The Intersection that includes frequent analysis on topics like gerrymandering, r

The End of Meat

Our speaker is Paul Rozin who is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. This discussion was held at a conference that I hosted in Philadelphia so t

Containing the New Axis Powers: China, Russia and Iran

Our speaker is Seth Cropsey is the President of the Yorktown Institute and the author of a new book entitled Breaking the New Axis: A US Grand Strategy for Eurasia. I wa

Following the Terrorist’s Money

Our two speakers are Eyal Azoulay and Ellie who are the founders of an Israeli Not-for-profit called ColEven. Terrorists successfully move money from their Western suppor

Encouraging Competing Viewpoints Among College Students

Our speaker is Daniel Diermeier who is the Chancelor of Vanderbilt.  I want to hear from Daniel about how the administration can build a culture of political neutrality o

Curing the New Ebola Virus

Our speaker is Ari Ciment. Ari ran the Covid Ward at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach and is the former president of the hospital’s medical staff.  He is probably

How AI Will Change Law Schools, Law Firms, and Users of Legal Services

Our speaker is Polk Wagner, who's the deputy dean of Penn Law School, who has been charged with figuring out how to adapt the law school curriculum to the AI revolution.

Fixing Our Healthcare System

Our speaker is Josh Gottlieb who is a professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Becker Friedman Institut

Can Anyone Predict What Happens Next?

This podcast was taped at a conference where I hosted several Penn Professors on a variety of topics. The audience included my friends who will join me in asking question

Objects of Desire

This podcast was taped at a conference where I hosted several Penn Professors on a variety of topics. The audience included my friends who will join me in asking question