Podcast
California
Joseph Tartakovsky – Martin v. Boise and the Homeless Crisis
Joseph Tartakovsky, a PRI adjunct fellow and with the law firm Gibson Dunn, discusses the homeless case Martin v. the City of Boise. It involves five homeless people who sued Boise, Idaho for fining them for violating a city ordinance prohibiting people from living in the streets. The homeless group ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 20, 2020
Drug Pricing
Wayne Winegarden – Why the Pelosi and Newsom Approaches to Prescription Drugs Won’t Really Help Patients
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, breaks down recently-proposed plans in Washington and Sacramento that emphasize price caps and more government control to address prescription drug prices. He discusses the conclusions of his new study on America’s drug pricing challenge, which makes the case ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 13, 2020
Featured
Sally Pipes talks about her new book, False Premise, False Promise
In this podcast, PRI President and CEO Sally Pipes discusses her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Sally makes the case against Medicare for All using evidence from government-run systems in Canada and the U.K and explains how single-payer health care makes a ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 6, 2020
Featured
3rd Annual PRI All-Stars Year End Awards
Back once again with their popular holiday tradition, the PRI All-Stars get together for our annual entertaining look back at 2019. We hand out our annual awards for the biggest winners and losers of 2019 in the worlds of politics and policy. Stay tuned to the end to hear our ...
Pacific Research Institute
December 23, 2019
Podcast
Charles Kesler – Ancient Rome and Modern America
This podcast is the fifth and final in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The cruise took place in October, started in Barcelona, with stops in Mallorca, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Nice, Florence, and ending in Rome. The theme of the lectures was “The Future ...
Pacific Research Institute
December 16, 2019
Featured
John O’Sullivan – What’s happening with Brexit?
This podcast is the fourth in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The theme of the lectures was “The Future of America and the West: Liberty, Sovereignty, and Self-Government. This fourth lecture on Brexit isfrom John O’Sullivan, senior fellow at the National Review Institute ...
Pacific Research Institute
December 9, 2019
Featured
Steve Hayward, John O’Sullivan, and Michael Anton on Thatcher, Reagan, and Trump
This podcast is the third in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The theme of the lectures was “The Future of America and the West: Liberty, Sovereignty, and Self-Government. This third lecture—a panel discussion—is titled “Thatcher, Reagan, and Trump” with PRI senior fellow and ...
Pacific Research Institute
December 2, 2019
Featured
Steve Hayward – The Past and Future of American Conservatism
This podcast is the second in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The theme of the lectures was “The Future of America and the West: Liberty, Sovereignty, and Self-Government. This second lecture, titled “The Past and Future of American Conservatism” was from PRI Fellow ...
Pacific Research Institute
November 25, 2019
Featured
Steve Hayward, Charles Kesler, Ryan Williams – Liberalization and the Polarization of American Politics
This past October, PRI and the Claremont Institute teamed up to celebrate our 40th anniversaries on a cruise in the Mediterranean. The cruise started in Barcelona, with stops in Mallorca, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Nice, Florence, and ending in Rome. The theme of the lecture series was “The Future of America ...
Pacific Research Institute
November 18, 2019
Blackouts
Kerry Jackson – The Great Blackouts of 2019
PRI Center for California fellow Kerry Jackson discusses the electricity shutoff that plunged some 3 million Californians into darkness. He reviews the history of California’s utility problems, the lack of market incentives for delivering power in the state, and examines the policy decisions that have contributed to the ongoing wildfire ...
Pacific Research Institute
November 11, 2019
Joseph Tartakovsky – Martin v. Boise and the Homeless Crisis
Joseph Tartakovsky, a PRI adjunct fellow and with the law firm Gibson Dunn, discusses the homeless case Martin v. the City of Boise. It involves five homeless people who sued Boise, Idaho for fining them for violating a city ordinance prohibiting people from living in the streets. The homeless group ...
Wayne Winegarden – Why the Pelosi and Newsom Approaches to Prescription Drugs Won’t Really Help Patients
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, breaks down recently-proposed plans in Washington and Sacramento that emphasize price caps and more government control to address prescription drug prices. He discusses the conclusions of his new study on America’s drug pricing challenge, which makes the case ...
Sally Pipes talks about her new book, False Premise, False Promise
In this podcast, PRI President and CEO Sally Pipes discusses her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Sally makes the case against Medicare for All using evidence from government-run systems in Canada and the U.K and explains how single-payer health care makes a ...
3rd Annual PRI All-Stars Year End Awards
Back once again with their popular holiday tradition, the PRI All-Stars get together for our annual entertaining look back at 2019. We hand out our annual awards for the biggest winners and losers of 2019 in the worlds of politics and policy. Stay tuned to the end to hear our ...
Charles Kesler – Ancient Rome and Modern America
This podcast is the fifth and final in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The cruise took place in October, started in Barcelona, with stops in Mallorca, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Nice, Florence, and ending in Rome. The theme of the lectures was “The Future ...
John O’Sullivan – What’s happening with Brexit?
This podcast is the fourth in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The theme of the lectures was “The Future of America and the West: Liberty, Sovereignty, and Self-Government. This fourth lecture on Brexit isfrom John O’Sullivan, senior fellow at the National Review Institute ...
Steve Hayward, John O’Sullivan, and Michael Anton on Thatcher, Reagan, and Trump
This podcast is the third in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The theme of the lectures was “The Future of America and the West: Liberty, Sovereignty, and Self-Government. This third lecture—a panel discussion—is titled “Thatcher, Reagan, and Trump” with PRI senior fellow and ...
Steve Hayward – The Past and Future of American Conservatism
This podcast is the second in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The theme of the lectures was “The Future of America and the West: Liberty, Sovereignty, and Self-Government. This second lecture, titled “The Past and Future of American Conservatism” was from PRI Fellow ...
Steve Hayward, Charles Kesler, Ryan Williams – Liberalization and the Polarization of American Politics
This past October, PRI and the Claremont Institute teamed up to celebrate our 40th anniversaries on a cruise in the Mediterranean. The cruise started in Barcelona, with stops in Mallorca, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Nice, Florence, and ending in Rome. The theme of the lecture series was “The Future of America ...
Kerry Jackson – The Great Blackouts of 2019
PRI Center for California fellow Kerry Jackson discusses the electricity shutoff that plunged some 3 million Californians into darkness. He reviews the history of California’s utility problems, the lack of market incentives for delivering power in the state, and examines the policy decisions that have contributed to the ongoing wildfire ...