Cutting Foreign Aid

Our speaker is Roger Moorhouse who is the author of a new book entitled Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War. I want to hear from Roger about the relative importance of convoys, radar, and breaking the Nazis codes to the allied victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. Our second speaker will be the What Happens Next Culture Critic Darren Schwartz. We are going to discuss World War 2 U-Boat movies including Das Boot and the recent Tom Hanks film Greyhound. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker is William Easterly who is a Professor of Economics at NYU and the author of a new book entitled Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest. I want to hear from Bill about whether foreign aid has been a source for good in the developing world.  I also want to understand the role of experts and whether the World Bank’s programs has been successful. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker is Richard Breitman who is an Emeritus Professor of History at American University and the author of a new book entitled Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said About the Holocaust. I want to learn from Richard about whether the allies should have bombed the rail lines to the concentration camps and if Roosevelt and Churchill should have said more to warn the Jews of Europe to the Holocaust so that the Jews could have gone into hiding. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker is Nicolas Veron who is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel in Brussels as well as at the Peterson Institute in DC. He is also the author of the book entitled Europe’s Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative. I want to learn from Nicolas about the resilience of the European Union and how it has been affected by the European banking crisis, Brexit, the war in Ukraine, and fears of increasing immigration. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Today’s topic is Convicting Ex-Nazis: the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials. We have two speakers Jonathan Bush who is a Law Professor at Columbia and a former US Prosecutor who pursued war criminals, and Eugene Kontorovich who is a Law Professor at George Mason. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker is Howard Husock who is a Senior Fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of a new book entitled The Projects: A New History of Public Housing. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker is Joel Pollak who is the Senior Editor at Large for the website Breitbart. I want to learn from Joel about the future of conservative media. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker is Karen Elliott House who is the former Managing Editor at the Wall Street Journal, and the author of a new book entitled The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia. Karen previously won the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting in the Middle East. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker is Ricardo Hausmann who is a Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and he is also the Founder and Director of Harvard’s Growth Lab. I want to find out from Ricardo why know-how is so important and why additional capital and labor isn’t valuable if workers don’t know what to do. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

Our speaker is Daron Acemoglu who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Daron is a Professor at MIT and is also the co-author of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity. I want to learn about how AI will improve productivity as well as its effect on inequality. We will compare AI’s impact with the industrial revolution to understand better how the choices that we make will alter work and our society. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe