Next Round

Next Round’s guest this week is Pat Nolan director of the American Conservative Union Foundation’s Center for Criminal Justice Reform. Nolan, an author of a chapter in PRI’s new book Saving California, discusses the state’s rising crime problem, “woke” prosecutors, and reforming California’s prison system through faith-based programs.

This week’s podcast guest is Adrian Moore, vice president of the Reason Foundation. His areas of research are privatization, government and regulatory reform, transportation, urban growth, and utilities. Dr. Moore discusses his chapter on California’s infrastructure problems in PRI’s new book, Saving California. He also gives his perspective on Pres. Biden’s infrastructure plan.

Next Round’s guest this week is Steven Greenhut, editor of PRI’s new book Saving California: Solutions to the state’s biggest policy problems. Greenhut brings together policy experts, including Wendel Cox, Joel Kotkin, Sally Pipes, and Lance Izumi, to offer policy reforms to tackle the state’s most pressing problems, from housing affordability, to homelessness, to wildfires. We also get Steve’s take on the effort to recall Gov. Newsom.

This week’s podcast guest is Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of the new book, Lady Editor, a biography of Sarah Josepha Hale.  Hale was the editor of the most prominent ladies magazine in her day and responsible for publishing prominent American authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Her influence popularized the white wedding dress, the polka, and recipes in magazines. Hale also lobbied to bring us Thanksgiving. Melanie Kirkpatrick, author, former deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal, and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute brings to life a remarkable American figure.

In this podcast, PRI’s guest is Judge Janice Rogers Brown, former associate justice of the California Supreme Court and a former judge on the DC Court of Appeals.  Judge Brown discusses the rise of “woke” ideology and how it threatens our Constitution and America’s institutions.  The moderator is Judge Daniel Kolkey, former justice of California’s Court of Appeals, counsel to Governor Pete Wilson, and a member of PRI’s board.

This podcast features William Voegeli, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and senior editor at the Claremont Review of Books.  Ro and Tim discuss with Dr. Voegeli his recent essay in the Claremont Review on California’s activist government and its crisis of competence.

Next Round features Carol Roth, New York Times bestselling author and PRI fellow and economist Wayne Winegarden.  They discuss Ms. Roth’s new book, The War on Small Business, the economic recovery, Federal Reserve policy, and what’s next for American small business owners. Carol Roth is a “recovering” investment banker, entrepreneur, TV pundit and host, and bestselling author of The Entrepreneur Equation.

University of Tennessee law professor and Instapundit founder Glenn Reynolds – author of an Encounter Intelligence book on space policy – joins us for a fascinating conversation about America’s future in space, which will be dominated by the private sector rather than the work of government space agencies.  We discuss how space can address climate change and global energy problems, how space will inspire new innovation, and what our policy approach should be to encourage more space activity while minimizing international conflict.

This podcast features PRI President Sally Pipes and the Goldwater Institutes Director of Health Care Policy Naomi Lopez in an insightful discussion on health care in America and what lies ahead under the Biden-Harris administration.

Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego, was co-chair of both the campaign for California’s Prop. 209 in 1996 and the successful campaign to prevent its repeal in 2020. Editor of the new book A Dubious Expediency, she offers compelling reasons to reconsider educational policies that discriminate in favor of some students and inevitably against others.