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Paul Kennedy: Allies Conquer Japan Oct 01, 2022

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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.

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Secular Intolerance of Religious Jews Sep 24, 2022

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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.

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Abolishing the FBI and Why Some Men Don't Work? Sep 17, 2022

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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.

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Internships Sep 10, 2022

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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?

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You Can't Teach That! Sep 02, 2022

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Our speaker will be John Ellis who is the former Dean of the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Professor of German Literature. The topic is the corruption of the Humanities, and what this means for the University.

I’ve raided the What Happens Next archives to find additional material that supports John Ellis’s discussion. We are going to hear from Arnold Weinstein who is a Professor of English at Brown University who will discuss the increasing resistance to teaching Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.

We will also hear from my friend David Grazian who is a Professor of Sociology at UPenn who will discuss the challenges of teaching Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities and why it is much easier to teach the HBO Series The Wire than the novels of Tom Wolfe.

Our final speaker is Patrick Allitt who is a Professor of History at Emory University. Patrick is going to discuss the increasing relevance of George Orwell and his central role in the American literary canon.

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War Games: China Invades Taiwan Aug 27, 2022

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Richard Fontaine and his team at the Center for a New American Security or CNAS developed war games with retired defense officials and members of congress. A few days ago, there were war games to see what happens if China were to invade Taiwan.

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Putin and Ukraine Aug 20, 2022

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Our speaker will be Mark Galeotti who is the author of the books We Need to Talk About Putin and The Weaponization of Everything. Mark will speak about Putin’s war objectives and his implementation strategy. A couple of months ago the Russian government banned Mark from entering the country.

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Operation Warp Speed Aug 13, 2022

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Our speaker is Paul Mango who helped manage Operation Warp Speed as the former deputy chief of the US Health and Human Services. He has just written a new book entitled Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID, the Critics and the Odds.

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Rise of Authoritarianism Aug 06, 2022

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Our first speaker is Moises Naim who is a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of the new book entitled Revenge of Power.

Moises will tell us about how populism, polarization, and post-truth undermine the democratic process. And that there is a global trend in the past few decades away from democracies towards more authoritarian regimes.

Our second speaker will be Julian Waller who is a political scientist at George Washington University, and he has a new paper that was recently published in the magazine American Affairs entitled Authoritarianism here?

Julian will speak about why strong democratic governance in the US makes it unlikely that authoritarianism can take hold in the US because of the diffusion of power within the Federal government and how state and local control through federalism strengthens democracy.

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Paul Kennedy Series: 1943: The Year that Decided the Outcome of WW2 Jul 30, 2022

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Our speaker is Paul Kennedy is the J Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale. He has a new book out entitled Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in WW2.

This episode Part 3 will focus on the fateful year 1943 when the war was won. Paul will tell us why the US decided to invade North Africa instead of Europe, as a trial balloon. Why North Africa was followed up with an invasion of Italy that subsequently knocked Mussolini of the war. We will learn about the internal strife within the allied alliance, the disputes between the armed services, and why the allies won.

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