Heritage Events Podcast

With deadlines and votes looming, Rachel Greszler encourages Trump and Congress to work together to restructure the executive branch, while Drew Gonshorowski explains why the healthcare debate should center less around coverage loss and more around decreasing premiums.

The Strange Death of Europe – a Number 1 Bestseller in the United Kingdom – is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end. This is not just an analysis of demographic and political realities, it is also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes accounts based on travels across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who pretend they want them to the places which cannot accept them. Murray looks at the bigger and deeper issues which lie behind a continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks to the steady erosion of our freedoms. He addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation, and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, Lampedusa, and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture, and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away. He concludes with two visions for a new Europe – one hopeful, one pessimistic – which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, it can do next.

Governments around the world want Internet companies to help with law enforcement investigations. Consumers want Internet services to protect their privacy and rights to due process. Unfortunately, today’s legal frameworks don’t do enough to promote either goal. Kent Walker, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Google Inc., will share ideas about how to allow law enforcement agencies to obtain digital evidence in a timely manner, protect consumers’ privacy rights, recognize nations’ sovereign rights, and avoid the Balkanization of the global Internet.

75 years after the 'fighting words' case, where does the Supreme Court stand on offensive speech? Cato Institute's Ilya Shapiro joins Tiffany and Elizabeth to talk banned band names and explain why this bench might be the most pro-free speech SCOTUS yet.

Since the April summit between President Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping, subsequent international events have made it difficult to assess the true trajectory of U.S.-China relations. Join us as our panels of distinguished experts examine two of the main drivers of the relationship – economics and foreign policy – especially looking toward potential developments after the 19th National Party Congress in the fall. *Due to technical difficulties, the audio is incomplete. We apologize for the inconvenience*

Virtually everyone supports religious liberty, and virtually everyone opposes discrimination. But how do we handle the hard questions that arise when exercises of religious liberty seem to discriminate unjustly? How do we promote the common good while respecting conscience in a diverse society? This event, based on a new Oxford University Press point-counterpoint book, brings together leading voices to discuss such questions: John Corvino, a longtime LGBT-rights advocate, opposite Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis, prominent young social conservatives. Many religious liberty questions have arisen in response to the redefinition of marriage: How should we treat county clerks who do not wish to authorize same-sex marriages, for example; or bakers, florists, and photographers who do not wish to provide same-sex wedding services? But the conflicts extend well beyond the LGBT arena. What counts as discrimination, when is it unjust, and when should it be unlawful? How should we treat hospitals, schools, and adoption agencies that can’t follow antidiscrimination laws, healthcare mandates, and other regulations? Should the law give religion and conscience special protection at all, and if so, why? The authors will discuss these questions and more during this conversation on their new book, Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination.

When Conrad Crane retired from active duty to become a research professor, he never expected to become a modern Cassandra, fated to tell truth to power without being heeded. After the world transformed on 9/11, he warned the Army that it was not prepared to execute stability operations, counterinsurgency, and the eventual reconstruction of Iraq. Crane’s work attracted the attention of Generals David Petraeus and James Mattis. He soon found himself in charge of a team tasked with creating the groundbreaking Field Manual 3-24/Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-33.5 Counterinsurgency, the very counterinsurgency doctrine he had pleaded for. A unique blend of traditional and modern theory, this manual would prove to be essential to the success of the Surge in Iraq that changed the course of the war. Crane’s account of the creation and implementation of the manual addresses its many criticisms, details what went wrong in Iraq, and explains how the new doctrine was never properly applied in Afghanistan. From the debates over the content to the ways it was used in the field, Cassandra in Oz covers lessons that should be gleaned from years of global war and displays the American military as a learning organization at its best.

In this episode, we’re talking about Neil Gorsuch’s first opinion, other justices’ early opinions, and why the Supreme Court might hear the travel ban case this summer.

In this week's episode of Mass Ave, Tommy Binion and Emily VanderBush discuss Dennis Rodman's trip to North Korea with Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation. Later, Tommy and Emily give an update on the latest news from Capitol Hill, and what we should know about the debt ceiling.

David Azerrad discusses where Trumpism fits with conservative intellectualism - and why it might ameliorate the movement’s problems; Mike Gonzalez explains how to free the Cuban people from Communism - and why Trump’s reversal of the previous administration’s policy towards Cuba might fulfill Obama’s goals.

In this episode, we’re talking about a budding SCOTUS friendship, what happens when presidents make bad deals on judicial nominations, and a few cases the Court will hear in its next term.

In this episode, we’re talking about President Trump’s Supreme Court short list, and we interview FantasySCOTUS creator Josh Blackman.

There is broad agreement in Washington that America’s tax system is out-of-date and in desperate need of reform. In April, President Trump laid out his vision and ideas for tax reform. Now, the attention turns to the Congress to address this critical issue. Join us as members of the influential House Freedom Caucus lay out their principles for tax reform and the path forward in the 115th Congress.

From Brexit to the election of Donald Trump to the rise of Marine Le Pen, a populist wind is blowing on both sides of the Atlantic. Some associate populism with demagoguery and worry that it threatens to overwhelm democracy. Others see it as the last best hope for democracy: a justified revolt of ordinary people against overbearing and self-serving elites. In this Russell Kirk Lecture, Roger Kimball will discuss the implications for democracy of the rise of this new populism.

The German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Government of Georgia in concert with The Heritage Foundation will host a conference marking the 25th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Georgia. This conference will examine the background of the U.S.-Georgia strategic partnership, evaluate the current state of the relationship, and assess future prospects for deepening the already strong ties between the two countries.