Heard at Heritage
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The Power Hour | Cryptocurrency and Energy Use with Norbert Michel and Nicolas Anthony
June 21, 2024 19:42 - 48 minutes - 55.9 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack welcomes the Cato Institute’s Nicolas Anthony back to the Power Hour, who is joined this time by his colleague Norbert Michel, Vice President for Cato’s Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Alternatives. They pick up their conversation from a few months ago to dig deeper into what actually is cryptocurrency and why does the industry re...
The Lee Edwards Lecture in Conservative Leadership: How Reagan Won the Cold War
June 20, 2024 17:26 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBThe Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies is pleased to announce that Peter Robinson, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, will deliver the inaugural Lee Edwards Lecture in Conservative Leadership. The title of his speech is “How Ronald Reagan Won the Cold War.” The Heritage Foundation established the annual Lee Edwards Lecture in recognition of Dr. Edwards’s long service as a Distinguished Fellow in Conservative T...
The Power Hour | Checking in With Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong on the Power Hour’s Anniversary
June 15, 2024 02:19 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. This week Jack invites old friends Travis Fisher, now the Director for Energy and Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute and Rachael Wilfong, back to the podcast to help celebrate the Power Hour’s first year in existence. You will have to listen to find out what Rachael is doing now. For our long-time listeners you will remember Travis and Ra...
Events | On Offense for Education Freedom: A Conversation with Corey DeAngelis
June 06, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBJoin us for the official launch of Dr. Corey DeAngelis’ new book, The Parent Revolution, in which he unapologetically argues why parents and political leaders must lean into the culture war taking place in schools. Dr. DeAngelis exposes the hypocritical elites who are content to hold other people’s children captive to poorly run government schools while sending their own children to the best private and charter schools out there. And most importantly, he equips readers with the ability to ma...
Events | Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Do Religious Beliefs Drive Marriage and Fertility Rates?
June 06, 2024 20:04 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBAlmost every developed country suffers from a birth dearth—in which average fertility is so low that a country fails to replace its population. Some countries have taken drastic policy measures to try to reverse this trend. Policymakers in the United States, however, have just started to ponder the problem and how they might try to solve it. Though policies can surely make some difference in a country’s fertility (for both good and ill), it seems clear that religion and religious beliefs pl...
Events | Launch of Chinese Handcuffs: How China Hijacked the Environmental Agenda
June 06, 2024 19:47 - 1 hour - 55 MBSecuring essential resources is a critical national security priority. This imperative fuels geostrategic competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). However, over many years, the PRC has executed a plan to reverse roles by infiltrating and dominating the “green movement” embraced by many on the political left. To dissect this challenge, The Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute of National Security and Foreign Policy is launching the “Chinese Handcuffs” ...
Events | Securing the Border and Keeping Americans Safe: How Illegal Immigration Leads to Preventable Crime
June 06, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBJanuary 2021 marked the beginning of an illegal immigration boom in the United States, which has led to a drastic increase in violent crime across the country. In many cases, the criminal aliens were present not in spite of federal, state, or local policy but because of intentional policy choices advanced by the left. Heritage’s new data visualization tool, “Border Insecurity and Lax Law Enforcement Lead to Preventable Crime,” showcases the very real harm being caused to Americans across th...
The Power Hour | Will the U.S. and South Korean Commercial Nuclear Partnership Lead a Nuclear Renaissance with Florence Lowe-Lee
June 06, 2024 15:31 - 48 minutes - 44 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. This week Jack welcomes Founder and President of the Global America Business Institute (GABI), Florence Lowe-Lee to the Power Hour. Jack and Florence discuss how the decades long partnership that the U.S. has developed with South Korea on commercial nuclear energy issues yields immense strategic and economic benefits to both countries. Did you kno...
The Power Hour| Nuclear Power’s Past, Present and Future with Ed Davis
May 28, 2024 18:32 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack invites one of the nation’s leading experts on commercial nuclear energy, Edward Davis, to the Power Hour this week. With decades of experience in industry and government, Ed brings a unique perspective to nuclear energy policy that you won’t want to miss. Jack and Ed cover everything from nuclear waste policy to new reactor finance to why t...
The Power Hour| Nuclear Power’s Past, Present and Future with Ed Davis
May 28, 2024 18:32 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack invites one of the nation’s leading experts on commercial nuclear energy, Edward Davis, to the Power Hour this week. With decades of experience in industry and government, Ed brings a unique perspective to nuclear energy policy that you won’t want to miss. Jack and Ed cover everything from nuclear waste policy to new reactor finance to why t...
The Power Hour | What Actually Causes Sea Levels to Rise (and Fall) with Dr. David Legates
May 06, 2024 22:07 - 56 minutes - 64.3 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack talks this week Dr. David Legates, Director of Research and Education at the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, about climate change and sea levels, and you won’t believe what he has to say. Dr. Legates, who holds a Ph.D. in climatology, and brings decades of research and experience to the table, specializes in hydroclimatolog...
The Power Hour | What Actually Causes Sea Levels to Rise (and Fall) with Dr. David Legates
May 06, 2024 22:07 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack talks this week Dr. David Legates, Director of Research and Education at the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, about climate change and sea levels, and you won’t believe what he has to say. Dr. Legates, who holds a Ph.D. in climatology, and brings decades of research and experience to the table, specializes in hydroclimatolog...
Events | Ten Years to Save the West: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss on Fighting the Global Left
April 24, 2024 00:46 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThroughout her ten years of service at the highest levels of the British government, former Prime Minister Liz Truss bore witness to the dangerous schemes of the Global Left, who continue to push their model of corporate state-socialism on the world. In her new book, Ten Years to Save the West: Leading the Revolution Against Globalism, Socialism, and the Liberal Establishment, Truss warns us that “freedom is at risk,” and conservatives in the west desperately need to defend it. Truss assert...
Events | NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It
April 24, 2024 00:37 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBWhat has happened to America? How did it become a land where teachers tell students they may have been born in the wrong body and where keeping your job may depend on affirming the lie that our society is systemically racist? These are two examples of many in which a new Marxist ideology is gripping our institutions. This is not Soviet Marxism of the 1960s; this is NextGen Marxism, and it’s infiltrating every part of American life. Learn how we can save our institutions from cultural Marxis...
Events | The American Case for Taiwan
April 24, 2024 00:23 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBKeeping Taiwan free from the grasp of the Chinese Communist Party is a vital interest of the United States. An attack on the democratic, self-governing island by the People’s Republic of China would gravely threaten the security and prosperity of everyday Americans. This represents just one of the key conclusions reached in the landmark research paper published this month by Heritage Research Fellow Michael Cunningham, The American Case for Taiwan. Taiwan’s indispensability to the U.S. was fu...
Events | Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture: Can Originalism Be Moral?
April 24, 2024 00:12 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBThe Heritage Foundation is honored to announce that Professor John Yoo, the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, will deliver this year's Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture for his speech titled, “Can Originalism Be Moral?” This annual lecture seeks to honor former Attorney General Ed Meese’s legacy of advancing an understanding and jurisprudence of originalism. When the Framers wrote the Constitution, “Their intention was to write a document not ...
The Power Hour | Nuclear Energy is Having a Moment and Christine Fletcher Tells Us Why
April 19, 2024 20:48 - 44 minutes - 51 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack talks this week with Christine Fletcher, Vice President, North American Young Generation in Nuclear about the rising popularity of nuclear energy among Americans in general, and with young Americans specifically. They discuss why the accident at Fukushima may not have had the cultural imprint that past accidents, such as Chernobyl and Three M...
The Power Hour | Nuclear Energy is Having a Moment and Christine Fletcher Tells Us Why
April 19, 2024 20:48 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack talks this week with Christine Fletcher, Vice President, North American Young Generation in Nuclear about the rising popularity of nuclear energy among Americans in general, and with young Americans specifically. They discuss why the accident at Fukushima may not have had the cultural imprint that past accidents, such as Chernobyl and Three M...
The Power Hour | Reviving America's Commercial Uranium Fuel Enrichment Industry with Amir Vexler, President and CEO, Centrus
April 12, 2024 14:10 - 58 minutes - 46.5 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a must listen conversation with Amir Vexler, President and CEO of America's only domestically owned uranium enrichment company. Jack and Amir discuss everything from the technical details of enrichment to the history of uranium enrichment in the United States to how uranium fuel markets work. Of particular interest is their...
The Power Hour | Reviving America's Commercial Uranium Fuel Enrichment Industry with Amir Vexler, President and CEO, Centrus
April 12, 2024 14:10 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a must listen conversation with Amir Vexler, President and CEO of America's only domestically owned uranium enrichment company. Jack and Amir discuss everything from the technical details of enrichment to the history of uranium enrichment in the United States to how uranium fuel markets work. Of particular interest is their...
The Power Hour | The Green Agenda and Its Impact on the States with Jason Hayes
April 04, 2024 01:11 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a conversation with Jason Hayes, Director of Energy and Environment at the Mackinac Center—a leading state-based research and policy institution. Jack and Jason discuss how Washington talking points on energy policy transform from the theoretical to impacting real lives and businesses on the ground in the states. They talk ...
The Power Hour | The Green Agenda and Its Impact on the States with Jason Hayes
April 04, 2024 01:11 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a conversation with Jason Hayes, Director of Energy and Environment at the Mackinac Center—a leading state-based research and policy institution. Jack and Jason discuss how Washington talking points on energy policy transform from the theoretical to impacting real lives and businesses on the ground in the states. They talk ...
Events | The History of Natural Law in American Law
March 26, 2024 17:25 - 57 minutes - 53 MBIn recent years, there has been renewed interest in the role of natural law in American law. Several important scholars, such as Jud Campbell and Richard H. Helmholz, have examined how courts and other legal actors used natural law reasoning at the Founding. Others, such as J. Joel Alicea, have argued over whether the natural law tradition requires or is consistent with a particular theory of constitutional adjudication, such as originalism. Join Professors Alicea, Campbell, and Helmholz fo...
Events | We Win, and They Lose: A Conservative Strategy to Win the New Cold War
March 26, 2024 17:13 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBDrawing inspiration from President Ronald Reagan’s goal for the contest with the Soviet Union - “We win, and they lose” - Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea’s new book, We Win They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War, articulates a conservative strategy to defeat the Chinese Communist Party as America navigates a New Cold War. Dissecting the major national security challenges implicated in the New Cold War, from the Chinese partnership with authoritarian powers and American adver...
Events | Perspectives on American, British, and Irish Trade Relations
March 25, 2024 16:36 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MB“Described in 2017 as the second most powerful woman in UK politics, Arlene Foster made her first appearance on BBC Newsnight aged 17, after her school bus was bombed by the PIRA,” notes Foster’s website. Having lived through a terrorist attack at a young age, Baroness Foster knew that she wanted to be a leader of change in Northern Ireland. Throughout her career in politics, she has held several positions—Minister for the Environment, Minister for the Department of Enterprise Trade and Inv...
The Power Hour | Everything You Wanted to Know About Molten Salt Reactors but Were Afraid to Ask
March 19, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack is joined today by Flibe Energy’s President and Chief Technologist, Kirk Sorensen. What is Flibe Energy, you ask? Well, it is a leading nuclear technology company that wants to change our lives for the better with their molten salt reactors. And why is it called Flibe? You will have to listen to find out—and to be smarter than all your friends. I...
The Power Hour | Everything You Wanted to Know About Molten Salt Reactors but Were Afraid to Ask
March 19, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 68.2 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack is joined today by Flibe Energy’s President and Chief Technologist, Kirk Sorensen. What is Flibe Energy, you ask? Well, it is a leading nuclear technology company that wants to change our lives for the better with their molten salt reactors. And why is it called Flibe? You will have to listen to find out—and to be smarter than all your friends. I...
Events | What Americans Need to Know About Abortion Survivors
March 15, 2024 15:58 - 54 minutes - 49.4 MBAbortion survivors’ stories of resilience and courage humanize the vague discourse of “choice” and life emerging from the womb. These stories emerge to become inspiring dramas of hope, love, and forgiveness. What about the stories that end differently? Though Roe v. Wade has been overturned at the federal level, there is still much to be done in the states to preserve the right to life for every man, woman, and child. Join our panel of experts as they discuss their first-hand experiences wo...
Events | The 2024 Russell Kirk Lecture featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali
March 15, 2024 15:49 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThe Heritage Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom are honored to announce that the renowned author and social activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali will deliver the 2024 Russell Kirk Lecture. Hirsi Ali has received innumerable awards and honors for her courageous opposition to political Islamism and vigorous advocacy of the besieged Western traditions of freedom of religion, inquiry, and speech. Her Russell Kirk Lecture will be an important extension of her thinking to the current upheavals in the M...
Events | Seizing the Moment to Defeat DEI
March 15, 2024 15:30 - 2 hours - 123 MBAgenda Introductory Remarks Mike Gonzalez, Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow, International Engagement, The Heritage Foundation Fireside Chat The Honorable Burgess Owens (R-UT), Member, U.S. House of Representatives Eric Teetsel, Vice President, Government Relations, The Heritage Foundation (Moderator) Panel I: The Capture of Higher Education Institutions Jay P. Greene, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Education Policy, The Heritage Foundation Nicki Neily, Pr...
The Power Hour | Europe’s Failing “Green” Energy Policies and What we Can Learn
March 13, 2024 13:47 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack is joined today by Rupert Darwall and Power Hour regular, Mario Loyola, to discuss Rupert’s latest report, “The Folly of Climate Leadership: Net zero and Britain’s Disastrous Energy Policies.” Rupert’s report uses facts and numbers, with charts and graphs, to demonstrate the real impact of climate alarmism and his insight, along with Mario’s, pro...
Events | The Birth Dearth: Why the Decline in Marriage and Total Fertility Is a Genuine Crisis
March 07, 2024 23:59 - 2 hours - 110 MBAgenda Fireside Chat The Honorable Ted Budd (R-NC), United States Senator Amy Kate Budd, Spouse of Sen. Ted Budd Panel I: The State of the Family Preston Brashers, Research Fellow, Tax Policy, The Heritage Foundation Jay Richards, Ph.D., Director, DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy, The Heritage Foundation Rachel Sheffield, Research Fellow, Welfare and Family Policy, The Heritage Foundat...
Events | Empowering Every Child: Unveiling the Success Sequence Model for Success in Both School and Life
March 07, 2024 23:48 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBJoin Heritage education experts Jonathan Butcher and Lindsey Burke, AEI’s Brad Wilcox, and Florida Board of Education Member Grazie Christie for an insightful exploration of the “success sequence”- a transformative set of decisions guiding young people toward enhanced life outcomes into early adulthood. Uncover valuable insights into the newly released blueprint from Heritage that school boards and educators can utilize to seamlessly integrate the success sequence into classrooms. The succe...
Events | The Dangers of Gender Ideology at Home and Abroad
March 07, 2024 23:40 - 1 hour - 109 MBAgenda Introductory Remarks James J. Carafano Ph.D., Senior Counselor to the President and E.W. Richardson Fellow, The Heritage Foundation Keynote Address Péter Törcsi, Deputy Director General, Center for Fundamental Rights Panel I: Perspectives from Europe Jay Richards, Ph.D., Director, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, The Heritage Foundation (Moderator) Ernesto Araújo, International Advisor, Fundación Disenso Jerzy Kwaśniewski, President, Ordo Iuris In...
The Power Hour | A Real Life David vs Goliath Story
March 06, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. We all love a good David versus Goliath story. This week’s guest, Diana Nielson, is engaged in just such a fight in real life. Diana is leading a community effort to save their surrounding community from major wind and solar projects that will scare hundreds of thousands of beautiful Idaho acres. Her fight against a group of well-funded corporate...
The Power Hour | Do Chinese Electric Vehicles Pose a National Security Threat?
March 01, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutes - 19 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Were you wondering how China could use its expertise in electric vehicles to challenge the United States? Well Jack welcomes Center for Energy, Climate and Environment Director (and his boss) Diana Furchtgott-Roth to the Powerhour to discuss this critical issue. Diana brings a career of experience to the discussion having worked in senior roles in...
The Power Hour | Has the Time Finally Come for Small, Modular Reactors
February 23, 2024 08:00 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack welcomes two leading experts on nuclear energy this week for a conversation about where we stand with SMR technology. Join us for this informative and entertaining episode with Mathew Mairinger, President of the North American Young Generation in Nuclear and his NAYGN colleague, Paul Rodi. Between Matthew and Paul, we cover everything from market ...
Events | What Ails the Working Class in America?
February 12, 2024 20:34 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBAmerica has been a notably hard-working society for most of its history—but has become much less so in recent decades. Labor-force participation, especially among men of prime working age, has fallen to levels not seen since the Great Depression and is particularly low in certain regions of the Middle West and South. The decline of work has coincided with declining health status and longevity and high levels of drug addiction. Policy analysts and political leaders have offered widely differ...
Events | An Agenda for Regaining America’s Maritime Security and Competitiveness
February 12, 2024 20:32 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBOur nation has fallen behind the threat from China. Beijing’s ongoing maritime aggression and numerous war games have cast doubt on whether our Navy can sustain peace or win in war. Making matters worse, the nation’s shipping, shipbuilding, and merchant marine, on which the nation relies to supply its forces abroad and economy at home, has atrophied to a dangerous state. This vulnerability invites economic blackmail and worse, the inability to sustain the nation’s military in war let alone k...
The Power Hour | Does America Risk Losing its Technological Edge Because of Bad Energy Policy?
February 09, 2024 19:23 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack welcomes Heritage colleagues Annie Chestnut Tudor and Mario Loyola this week to discuss the tech industry and its projected energy requirements. Annie is a leading expert in technology policy and Mario, a recent Power Hour guest, knows more about energy policy than just about anyone. Together, this duo paints a stark picture of what we are f...
The Power Hour | Does America Risk Losing its Technological Edge Because of Bad Energy Policy?
February 09, 2024 19:23 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack welcomes Heritage colleagues Annie Chestnut Tudor and Mario Loyola this week to discuss the tech industry and its projected energy requirements. Annie is a leading expert in technology policy and Mario, a recent Power Hour guest, knows more about energy policy than just about anyone. Together, this duo paints a stark picture of what we are f...
Events | The Legal Issues Behind the Colorado Ballot Disqualification Case
February 08, 2024 16:40 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBThe Colorado Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump should be struck from the ballot for violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which applies to certain officials who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion. Does this Section apply to the former President? Can state officials enforce it in the absence of an implementing statute from Congress? Does this Section still apply in 2024? On February 8, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson – wha...
The Power Hour | Is America Heading for Blackouts?
February 02, 2024 21:22 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. We are joined today by Isaac Orr of the Center for the American Experiment. Isaac is an expert on the electricity grid and explains how poor policy choices are leading to instability in our electric supplies. In fact, Isaac has done the hard work of modeling out exactly what will happen to our electricity supply if we don’t change course. If you w...
Events | Safeguarding Kids Online: How to Clean Up Big Tech’s Mess
February 02, 2024 21:19 - 1 hour - 39.5 MBBig Tech overreach has devastated American youth. Join The Heritage Foundation for expert commentary following Senate testimony from the CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord on their failures to protect children online. Our program will highlight innovative policy solutions that state and federal leaders can leverage today to safeguard our kids online, beginning with a fireside chat between VA Attorney General Jason Miyares and Heritage President Kevin Roberts, followed by an expert pan...
Events | NATO Secretary General on Modern Needs of the Alliance 75 Years After Its Founding
February 02, 2024 21:18 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joins Heritage to underscore the needs for increased and sustained defense spending across the NATO alliance, more balanced burden-sharing, and the ramping up of defense production to rise to the challenges of this pivotal moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Events | A Decade of Decline: The Need to Restore America’s Military Power
February 02, 2024 21:17 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBMost Americans do not realize the sorry state the U.S. military is in. Following years of overextension, deployments, and a lack of prioritizing defense spending on what is needed to fight and win America’s wars, the military is far from the strong force built by Ronald Reagan to defeat the Soviets. The tenth edition of The Heritage Foundation’s Index of U.S. Military Strength makes that clear. With adversaries growing in strength and causing chaos in nearly every corner of the globe, couple...
Events | Heritage Foundation Launches National Taskforce to Combat Antisemitism
February 02, 2024 21:17 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBSince the horrific atrocities committed by Hamas against innocent Israeli babies, children, men, and women on October 7, 2023, we have witnessed an alarming rise in antisemitic incidents in the U.S. In response, Heritage and partner organizations launched the National Task Force to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism in the United States. Join us for the first public meeting with keynote remarks by former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and a discussion with Eliav Benjamin, Deputy Chief ...
Events | Inflation: Today's Financial Pandemic
February 02, 2024 21:14 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBEvery American has felt the effects of the staggering surge in inflation in the past few years. In the U.S. and other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the rise in inflation strongly relates to increases in transfer payments since 2020, the start of the COVID pandemic. Heritage Distinguished Fellow in Economic Thought Dr. Robert Barro has researched this significant inflation spike, and his conclusions may surprise you. Through a conceptual fram...
The Power Hour | Energy Policy and the Courts: The Legal Cases that You Need to Know About
January 26, 2024 20:11 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a conversation with one of The Heritage Foundation’s top legal experts, Jack Fitzhenry. We often don’t think about the Supreme Court when we think about energy and environmental policy, but we should, because it matters…a lot! You don’t want to miss this discussion on how a number of cases currently before the Supreme Court...
The Power Hour | Energy Policy and the Courts: The Legal Cases that You Need to Know About
January 26, 2024 20:11 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack this week for a conversation with one of The Heritage Foundation’s top legal experts, Jack Fitzhenry. We often don’t think about the Supreme Court when we think about energy and environmental policy, but we should, because it matters…a lot! You don’t want to miss this discussion on how a number of cases currently before the Supreme Court...