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Watch Videos from PRI’s 2025 California Ideas in Action Conference
Watch Videos from PRI’s 2025 California Ideas in Action Conference The 2025 PRI California Ideas in Action Conference featured conversations and panel discussions with leading state policy makers, real life changemakers, and top free market thinkers on some of California’s top challenges, including what’s next for stronger criminal justice policy ...
Podcast
Christopher Cox – Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn
This week, we feature a special episode for Presidents’ Day – a recording from a recent PRI luncheon in Newport Beach featuring Christopher Cox. You may remember him as a former congressman and Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, but did you know that he is also an author and presidential ...
California
Joe Kent – Lessons from Maui as LA Begins to Rebuild
This week, Joe Kent of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii joins us to share lessons learned from the Aloha State’s experience in rebuilding after the devastating Maui wildfires from a few years ago. It’s a conversation everyone who has been affected by the wildfires should listen to, especially as leaders ...
Business & Economics
Wayne Winegarden – On the Trump Tariffs
PRI Senior Fellow in Business and Economics Dr. Wayne Winegarden joins us for a special episode with his real time analysis of the proposed (and delayed by one month) Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. He previews his upcoming issue brief making the case that tariffs are not a ...
Free Cities
Yemi Mobolade and Brian Risley – How Colorado Springs is Letting Freedom Lead the Way
This week, as PRI releases its new documentary “Colorado Springs: Letting Freedom Lead the Way,” we present an extended cut of our interview with Mayor Yemi Mobolade and Councilman Brian Risley. They discuss how Colorado Springs has been so successful in lowering the cost of living and improving the quality ...
Free Cities
Watch the Free Cities Center documentary
Watch the Free Cities Center documentary, “Colorado Springs: Letting Freedom Lead the Way”
Colorado Springs ranked #3 nationwide and #1 in the west in PRI’s “Free Cities Index,” a ranking of America’s 50 largest cities for their pro-growth policies. “Talking to business owners, civic leaders, community activists and journalists, we found Colorado Springs to be a booming, thriving city thanks to a ...
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 ...
Watch Videos from PRI’s 2025 California Ideas in Action Conference
Watch Videos from PRI’s 2025 California Ideas in Action Conference The 2025 PRI California Ideas in Action Conference featured conversations and panel discussions with leading state policy makers, real life changemakers, and top free market thinkers on some of California’s top challenges, including what’s next for stronger criminal justice policy ...
Christopher Cox – Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn
This week, we feature a special episode for Presidents’ Day – a recording from a recent PRI luncheon in Newport Beach featuring Christopher Cox. You may remember him as a former congressman and Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, but did you know that he is also an author and presidential ...
Joe Kent – Lessons from Maui as LA Begins to Rebuild
This week, Joe Kent of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii joins us to share lessons learned from the Aloha State’s experience in rebuilding after the devastating Maui wildfires from a few years ago. It’s a conversation everyone who has been affected by the wildfires should listen to, especially as leaders ...
Wayne Winegarden – On the Trump Tariffs
PRI Senior Fellow in Business and Economics Dr. Wayne Winegarden joins us for a special episode with his real time analysis of the proposed (and delayed by one month) Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. He previews his upcoming issue brief making the case that tariffs are not a ...
Yemi Mobolade and Brian Risley – How Colorado Springs is Letting Freedom Lead the Way
This week, as PRI releases its new documentary “Colorado Springs: Letting Freedom Lead the Way,” we present an extended cut of our interview with Mayor Yemi Mobolade and Councilman Brian Risley. They discuss how Colorado Springs has been so successful in lowering the cost of living and improving the quality ...
Watch the Free Cities Center documentary
Watch the Free Cities Center documentary, “Colorado Springs: Letting Freedom Lead the Way”
Colorado Springs ranked #3 nationwide and #1 in the west in PRI’s “Free Cities Index,” a ranking of America’s 50 largest cities for their pro-growth policies. “Talking to business owners, civic leaders, community activists and journalists, we found Colorado Springs to be a booming, thriving city thanks to a ...
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 ...
