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California
Steven Greenhut – How California’s Insurance Crisis Could Be Double Whammy for Wildfire Victims
This week, Free Cities Center director Steven Greenhut joins us to discuss how California’s ongoing insurance crisis could be a double whammy for Southern California wildfire victims looking to rebuild. He gives the history of the state’s festering insurance crisis, analyzes Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s reform plan announced just before ...
California
The PRI All Stars Respond to Gov. Newsom’s 2025-26 State Budget
This week, we present an in-depth look at Gov. Newsom’s 2025-25 state budget plan. PRI scholars Wayne Winegarden, Lance Izumi, Steve Smith, and Kerry Jackson join Ro and Tim to explore the budget’s impact on taxes and the economy, education, crime, and transportation. They also explore how the Southern California ...
California
Impact Magazine Fall/Winter 2024
The California Way was on full display in the fall campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris’ run for president. Harris’ campaign was notoriously devoid of policy specifics; fortunately, the Pacific Research Institute’s Kerry Jackson and Tim Anaya took up the Herculean task of explaining to the rest of the country ...
Podcast
Charles Kesler at his Festschrift Celebration
Our podcast this week is a recording of a Festschrift celebration with Charles Kesler, editor of the Claremont Review of Books and professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. A group of his former students came together to publish essays in his honor in the book Leisure with Dignity, edited ...
Podcast
The PRI All Stars 2024 Year End Awards
The PRI All Stars are back to hand out their annual year end awards to the biggest winners and losers of 2024. What were the year’s best and worst ideas? What were the fairest and bummest wraps of the year? Who is destined for stardom and oblivion? Sit back and ...
Education
Adam Abolfazli – Permission to Fail
Adam Abolfazli, Sacramento-area public high school student and author of the new book Permission to Fail, shares with us his firsthand view from the classroom on how recent changes in public education such as increased parent and student apathy toward the learning process and a lack of academic rigor, have ...
California
Hannah Meyers – Not Taking Crime Seriously
Manhattan Institute fellow and director of policing and public safety Hannah Meyers joins us this week to discuss what’s next for public safety policy in California after voter approval of Prop. 36 on retail theft. She also discusses her new paper on the impact of Prop. 47 on crime and ...
Blog
PRI’s 2024 Holiday Book List
Sally Pipes – Doctor Sally by P.G. Wodehouse While not a policy book, my favorite this year and one that I read recently is Doctor Sally by my favorite author, P.G. Wodehouse. After a long and grueling election campaign, this book is a tonic and breath of fresh air for ...
Business & Economics
Tevi Troy – The Power and the Money
This week, Tevi Troy – acclaimed presidential historian, former White House aide and Deputy Secretary of Health, joins us to discuss his terrific new book, The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry. Plus Rowena and Tim discuss the latest Trump cabinet ...
Election
Dallas Lawrence – Communicating Under Fire
This week’s guest is Dallas Lawrence, a communications pro who has worked at the highest levels of government, the military, and corporate America, who joins us to discuss his new book Communicating Under Fire. The book offers terrific advice for communications novices and PR pros alike on how to ...
Steven Greenhut – How California’s Insurance Crisis Could Be Double Whammy for Wildfire Victims
This week, Free Cities Center director Steven Greenhut joins us to discuss how California’s ongoing insurance crisis could be a double whammy for Southern California wildfire victims looking to rebuild. He gives the history of the state’s festering insurance crisis, analyzes Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s reform plan announced just before ...
The PRI All Stars Respond to Gov. Newsom’s 2025-26 State Budget
This week, we present an in-depth look at Gov. Newsom’s 2025-25 state budget plan. PRI scholars Wayne Winegarden, Lance Izumi, Steve Smith, and Kerry Jackson join Ro and Tim to explore the budget’s impact on taxes and the economy, education, crime, and transportation. They also explore how the Southern California ...
Impact Magazine Fall/Winter 2024
The California Way was on full display in the fall campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris’ run for president. Harris’ campaign was notoriously devoid of policy specifics; fortunately, the Pacific Research Institute’s Kerry Jackson and Tim Anaya took up the Herculean task of explaining to the rest of the country ...
Charles Kesler at his Festschrift Celebration
Our podcast this week is a recording of a Festschrift celebration with Charles Kesler, editor of the Claremont Review of Books and professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. A group of his former students came together to publish essays in his honor in the book Leisure with Dignity, edited ...
The PRI All Stars 2024 Year End Awards
The PRI All Stars are back to hand out their annual year end awards to the biggest winners and losers of 2024. What were the year’s best and worst ideas? What were the fairest and bummest wraps of the year? Who is destined for stardom and oblivion? Sit back and ...
Adam Abolfazli – Permission to Fail
Adam Abolfazli, Sacramento-area public high school student and author of the new book Permission to Fail, shares with us his firsthand view from the classroom on how recent changes in public education such as increased parent and student apathy toward the learning process and a lack of academic rigor, have ...
Hannah Meyers – Not Taking Crime Seriously
Manhattan Institute fellow and director of policing and public safety Hannah Meyers joins us this week to discuss what’s next for public safety policy in California after voter approval of Prop. 36 on retail theft. She also discusses her new paper on the impact of Prop. 47 on crime and ...
PRI’s 2024 Holiday Book List
Sally Pipes – Doctor Sally by P.G. Wodehouse While not a policy book, my favorite this year and one that I read recently is Doctor Sally by my favorite author, P.G. Wodehouse. After a long and grueling election campaign, this book is a tonic and breath of fresh air for ...
Tevi Troy – The Power and the Money
This week, Tevi Troy – acclaimed presidential historian, former White House aide and Deputy Secretary of Health, joins us to discuss his terrific new book, The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry. Plus Rowena and Tim discuss the latest Trump cabinet ...
Dallas Lawrence – Communicating Under Fire
This week’s guest is Dallas Lawrence, a communications pro who has worked at the highest levels of government, the military, and corporate America, who joins us to discuss his new book Communicating Under Fire. The book offers terrific advice for communications novices and PR pros alike on how to ...
