Our guests in this podcast are Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics and Kerry Jackson, PRI fellow on California Reform.  Wayne and Kerry co-authored PRI’s new study “California Migrating,” which reveals the root causes of the outmigration by California residents and businesses. The state’s detrimental policies have reduced people’s quality of life and inhibited their ability to prosper. Kerry and Wayne discuss the reforms we need to bring people back to the state and reinvigorate the California dream.

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Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson – California Migrating

Roxana Janka of the new Good4U coalition and campaign discusses their mission to ensure every child has the individualized educational options necessary to meet the demands of the workforce and get a good paying job. She also discusses their new statewide poll and the message that California high school parents upset with the current state of public education have for state lawmakers. The podcast begins with Rowena and Tim discussing the latest bad economic numbers and another big California company announcing their move out of state.

Roxana Janka – Helping Get Students Back on Track After a Year of Learning Loss and Trauma

Our guest this week is Zack Smith, a legal fellow with the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Zack has been closely watching the growing movement of progressive prosecutors who flout the rule of law.  In California, we see this in San Francisco and Los Angeles where both district attorneys faced recall efforts.  Zack discusses how these “rogue prosecutors” have resulted in increasing crime in our cities.

Zack Smith – Rogue Prosecutors

This week’s guest is Clark Judge.  In addition to being chairman of PRI, he is the founder and managing director of the White House Writers Group – a high stakes communications firm.  Clark Judge was also speechwriter to Pres. Ronald Reagan.  We discuss Pres. Biden’s handling of the pandemic, the Afghanistan catastrophe, the crisis at the southern border, and the slow economic recovery.  He also offers his perspective on the White House’s ineffective communications strategy.

Clark Judge – The State of the Biden Presidency

In this podcast, PRI All-Stars, Rowena Itchon, senior vice president, Lance Izumi, senior director of education, and Tim Anaya, senior director of communications come together to provide their perspective on the California recall election and its defeat. The All-Stars discuss what this means for the direction of public policy in the state and how it impacts the 2022 mid-term elections.

PRI All-Stars – The Recall and What’s Next

Our guest this week on PRI’s Next Round podcast is Lance Izumi, senior director of education. Lance discusses his upcoming book The Homeschool Boom: Pandemic, Policies, and Possibilities. There’s been a homeschooling boom during the pandemic, as parents have sought ways to improve their children’s education during the school lockdowns. Lance explains why homeschooling is becoming more popular, discusses many of its myths, and profiles a diverse group of families who are homeschooling their children.

Lance Izumi – The Homeschool Boom

PRI’s podcast guest this week is Corey DeAngelis, executive director of the Educational Freedom Institute, director of research for the National Federation for Children, and a fellow at the Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation. He is interviewed by PRI’s director of the Young Leaders Circle, Evan Harris. They discuss all things school choice and why it’s even more important now that the flaws in the public school system have been exposed by the pandemic. Ro and Tim also discuss the latest California recall polls.

Corey DeAngelis – School Choice and Covid-19

Next Round’s guest is economist Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in Business and Economics.  Dr. Winegarden discusses some of the key issues being debated in Washington and Sacramento, from the infrastructure bill to the $3.5 trillion budget resolution package to California and the nation’s climate change policies.  As director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, he also highlights his breakthrough research on valuing medicines.

Wayne Winegarden – Electricity, Environment, and the Economy

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.

Pat Nolan - On California Crime

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.

Adrian Moore – Saving California’s Infrastructure

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.

Steven Greenhut – Saving California

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.

An Interview with Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of the new biography on Sarah Josepha Hale

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.

Judge Janice Rogers Brown discusses the rise of “woke” ideology

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.

William Voegeli – California Progressively Worse

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.

Carol Roth - The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America

Pacific Research Institute interviews various scholars on topics of the day.

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