Flagg Taylor, assistant professor of government at Skidmore College, discusses the life and career of Vaclav Havel with Paul Howard



City Journal: Vaclav Havel

Heather Mac Donald discusses her latest article about the lack of upward mobility in California's growing Hispanic majority along with the risks to the state's economic future.

California’s Demographic Revolution

James Copland, director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy interviews Ted Frank, adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute on his recent oped at The Daily, "Prosecuting Edwards may feel satisfying, but it’s a worrying case of overreach."

James Copland and Ted Frank

James Copland interviews Robert Shapiro on his new paper, "Corporate Political Spending: Why The New Critics Are Wrong."

Corporate Political Spending: Why The New Critics Are Wrong

Paul Howard interviews Joshua Archambault of the Pioneer Institute and contributor to the Pioneer Institute’s new book, “The Great Experiment: The States, The Feds and Your HealthCare.” 
“ A DC-based solution to this HealthCare problem isn’t going to work…it doesn’t allow for differences (between the states).” -1:41



Joshua Archambault Discusses New Book, "The Great Experiment"

Isaac Gorodetski, project manager of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy interviews the Center’s director, James Copland, about his latest Proxy Monitor report and shareholder activism trends from the 2012 proxy season.
 
“Companies in the Fortune 200 were 28% likely to face a shareholder proposal related to political spending  or lobbying, up from only 9% in 2008” –James Copland



Results from the Proxy Monitor 2012 Finding 4

Paul Howard and Joshua Archambault of the Pioneer Institute discuss Massachusetts new law that institutes a Global Spending Cap on Healthcare.

Global health care budgets: Will they work? And are they sustainable?

Daniel DiSalvo, PublicSectorInc.com contributor and author of "Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics", discusses  the true idea-shapers behind both the Republican and Democratic parties and their influence on the coming elections, with Vice President of Policy Research, Howard Husock. 

“We often look at our big tent parties as these big monolithic blocks or we look at individual political actors, but what we miss is this intermediate unit, the faction is often the party behind the party or the source of energy behind the party.” – 2:20

Engines of Change: The factions behind the RNC and DNC

James Copland discusses his findings from "Proxy Monitor 2012: A Report on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism," with senior editorial page writer for the Wall Street Journal, Collin Levy. 

"What's interesting is that there is a significant disconnect between the leading proxy advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services, and what shareholders are actually doing" - Copland 

Corporate Shareholders: Whose Voice Really Counts?

Paul Howard interviews Jeffrey Kasher, the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Global Clinical Development for Eli Lilly and Company, about Lilly's involvement in TransCelerate BioPharma, an industry-wide collaboration that is aimed at developing shared research solutions to accelerate the delivery of innovative medicine to patients.

"What drove the companies to working in this matter is shared frustration--we have many innovative medicines that we desperately want to get to patients...[the process] just becomes too expensive and takes too long."- Kasher

Collaboration for Innovation: TransCelerate BioPharma

James Copland and Adam Freedman, author of “The Naked Constitution,” discuss oral arguments from the recent Supreme Court hearing of Fisher v. University of Texas. 

“Now they’ve moved the goal posts on Grutter. It’s not just enough to have a critical mass of minority students, those students themselves have to come from diversified high schools.”  - Adam Freedman


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