Uncategorized
Podcast
An Interview with Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of the new biography on Sarah Josepha Hale
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 ...
Pacific Research Institute
August 2, 2021
Drug Pricing
Watch PRI, Pioneer Institute Webinar on ICER, health care innovation
The Pioneer Institute and Pacific Research Institute hosted an educational webinar on the importance of protecting treatment access, innovation, and equity as Washington addresses drug pricing reforms on July 19, 2021. Pioneer Institute, PRI, and special guests explored the current policy landscape on treatment value and access and how policy ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 21, 2021
Multimedia
Watch “Bait & Switch: How the Wokerati Misleads the Public for Power and Profit”
Watch a special webinar conversation with the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown, moderated by the Honorable Daniel Kolkey about the rise of “woke” ideology in our public schools, college campuses, businesses, sports, and our legal system, and how it threatens our Constitution and America’s institutions. Judge Brown gives an intellectual look ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 21, 2021
Business & Economics
Glenn Reynolds – America’s New Destiny in Space
University of Tennessee law professor and Instapundit founder Glenn Reynolds – author of an Encounter Intelligence book on space policy – joins us for a fascinating conversation about America’s future in space, which will be dominated by the private sector rather than the work of government space agencies. We discuss ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 5, 2021
Uncategorized
Dr. Henry Miller Provides a COVID-19 Vaccine Rate Update on the Lars Larson Show
PRI’s Dr. Henry Miller talks about the misleading claims about national vaccine rates versus progress by each state, and how the vaccine rates breakdown by region with the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show. Dr. Miller also discusses statements about vaccines by President Joe Biden during his run for the presidency and ...
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
June 16, 2021
Podcast
Debra Saunders – Covering the Trump White House
This podcast features Debra Saunders, the long-time columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who turned Trump White House beat reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. These days Debra Saunders is a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership. Debra discusses what it was like to be a ...
Pacific Research Institute
June 14, 2021
Obamacare
Erik Jaffe – The U.S. Supreme Court Cases this Session
The featured guest for this podcast Erik Jaffe, partner at Schaerr Jaffe, a constitutional lawyer, and a PRI fellow in Legal Studies. Erik takes us through a tour of the major U.S. Supreme Court cases this session and the constitutional issues in question, from Obamacare to the First Amendment. Erik ...
Pacific Research Institute
June 1, 2021
Blog
PRI’s 2021 Summer Reading List
Today marks the unofficial start of the summer season. Unlike last year, Americans might be able to take a vacation and go somewhere this summer as we begin to turn the corner on the Covid-19 pandemic. What’s one of the most important things you’ll need for your summer vacation planning ...
Tim Anaya
May 31, 2021
Blog
Analyzing the Biden Administration’s Tech and Innovation Policy Agenda
While it took a couple months for clarity to replace idle speculation, the Biden administration’s tech and innovation public policy agenda is increasingly clear. The forecast? Government with little chance of free markets. At his recent address to Congress President Biden highlighted “technologies of the future” as a place where ...
Bartlett Cleland
May 21, 2021
Homelessness
$12 billion to house the homeless, but ‘housing first’ doesn’t work
The governor has plans to spend an extraordinary sum of public money on the homeless, most of which would be used to put them up in hotels. Sounds compassionate. But it’s another empty promise. Housing-first policy is indistinguishable from housing-and-nothing-else. Part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $100 billion “California Comeback Plan” ...
Kerry Jackson
May 19, 2021
An Interview with Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of the new biography on Sarah Josepha Hale
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 ...
Watch PRI, Pioneer Institute Webinar on ICER, health care innovation
The Pioneer Institute and Pacific Research Institute hosted an educational webinar on the importance of protecting treatment access, innovation, and equity as Washington addresses drug pricing reforms on July 19, 2021. Pioneer Institute, PRI, and special guests explored the current policy landscape on treatment value and access and how policy ...
Watch “Bait & Switch: How the Wokerati Misleads the Public for Power and Profit”
Watch a special webinar conversation with the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown, moderated by the Honorable Daniel Kolkey about the rise of “woke” ideology in our public schools, college campuses, businesses, sports, and our legal system, and how it threatens our Constitution and America’s institutions. Judge Brown gives an intellectual look ...
Glenn Reynolds – America’s New Destiny in Space
University of Tennessee law professor and Instapundit founder Glenn Reynolds – author of an Encounter Intelligence book on space policy – joins us for a fascinating conversation about America’s future in space, which will be dominated by the private sector rather than the work of government space agencies. We discuss ...
Dr. Henry Miller Provides a COVID-19 Vaccine Rate Update on the Lars Larson Show
PRI’s Dr. Henry Miller talks about the misleading claims about national vaccine rates versus progress by each state, and how the vaccine rates breakdown by region with the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show. Dr. Miller also discusses statements about vaccines by President Joe Biden during his run for the presidency and ...
Debra Saunders – Covering the Trump White House
This podcast features Debra Saunders, the long-time columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who turned Trump White House beat reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. These days Debra Saunders is a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership. Debra discusses what it was like to be a ...
Erik Jaffe – The U.S. Supreme Court Cases this Session
The featured guest for this podcast Erik Jaffe, partner at Schaerr Jaffe, a constitutional lawyer, and a PRI fellow in Legal Studies. Erik takes us through a tour of the major U.S. Supreme Court cases this session and the constitutional issues in question, from Obamacare to the First Amendment. Erik ...
PRI’s 2021 Summer Reading List
Today marks the unofficial start of the summer season. Unlike last year, Americans might be able to take a vacation and go somewhere this summer as we begin to turn the corner on the Covid-19 pandemic. What’s one of the most important things you’ll need for your summer vacation planning ...
Analyzing the Biden Administration’s Tech and Innovation Policy Agenda
While it took a couple months for clarity to replace idle speculation, the Biden administration’s tech and innovation public policy agenda is increasingly clear. The forecast? Government with little chance of free markets. At his recent address to Congress President Biden highlighted “technologies of the future” as a place where ...
$12 billion to house the homeless, but ‘housing first’ doesn’t work
The governor has plans to spend an extraordinary sum of public money on the homeless, most of which would be used to put them up in hotels. Sounds compassionate. But it’s another empty promise. Housing-first policy is indistinguishable from housing-and-nothing-else. Part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $100 billion “California Comeback Plan” ...