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Podcast
Highlights of PRI’s 2025 Sir Antony Fisher Dinner
This week, we present a special episode featuring highlights from PRI’s 2025 Sir Antony Fisher Dinner, which was held last month in San Mateo. Noted author, historian and commentator Victor Davis Hanson shares his thoughts on the assassination of Charlie Kirk and how the conservative movement should respond to this ...
Podcast
Naomi Riley – Lives Cut Short
This week, Naomi Riley – American Enterprise Institute senior fellow – joins us to discuss her latest work on child welfare issues. It is a project called Lives Cut Short (www.livescutshort.org), which is an online database that looks at how states are underreporting incidents of children who have died of ...
California
Watch Tim Anaya discuss California’s crime challenges with “America’s Criminologist”
Watch PRI vice president of marketing and communications Tim Anaya discuss California’s ongoing crime challenges and his book The California Left Coast Survivor’s Guide on “America’s Criminologist with Dr. Currie Myers” on KMET Radio in San Bernardino.
California
Assembly Republican Leader Emeritus James Gallagher – The Exit Interview
Our special guest this week is outgoing Assembly Republican Leader – and the very first guest on Next Round podcast – James Gallagher. He looks back on his time as GOP leader, reflecting on his biggest accomplishments, what surprised him the most during his leadership, his partisan battles with Speaker ...
California
The PRI All Stars 2025 End of Session Wrap Up
This week, we present our annual end of session look back at the just-concluded legislative session. Steven Greenhut, Matt Fleming and Tim Anaya share their thoughts on the hot issues debated in the final weeks of the legislative session, including the cap-and-trade deal, high-speed rail funding, charter school legislation, housing ...
Education
Kerry McDonald – Joyful Learning
From FreedomFest 2025 in Palm Springs, Tim talks with Kerry McDonald, senior fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and State Policy Network education fellow about her new book Joyful Learning, which explores new, low-cost K–12 learning models that favor individualized, learner-centered education. They also talk about the Trump administration’s ...
California
A Conversation with Assemblyman Joe Patterson
We wrap up our series of podcasts on the hot issues being debated in the final weeks of the 2025 legislative session with a conversation with Assemblyman Joe Patterson, R-Rocklin. They discuss the Gavin Newsom redistricting proposal, the bills that aren’t getting the attention they should be at the end ...
California
Matt Rexroad – On the Gavin Newsom Redistricting Scheme
Continuing our series of podcasts on hot issues being debated during the final weeks of the 2025 legislative session, longtime political strategist, redistricting consultant, and former elected official Matt Rexroad joins us to break down Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting scheme and what it will mean for fair elections in California. ...
Environment
Catherine Reheis-Boyd – Ensuring Fuel is Plentiful and Affordable in California
This week, we start a series of podcasts featuring conversations on some of the hottest issues being debated at the State Capitol in the final weeks of the 2025 legislative session. We’re pleased to be joined by Western States Petroleum Association president and CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd, one of the most ...
Free Cities
Steven Greenhut – Protecting Cities from Wildfires
Free Cities Center director Steven Greenhut joins us to discuss his latest booklet focusing on the lessons learned from January’s destructive Southern California wildfires. They talk about policy-created problems on brush clearing, water, and land use policy that created a perfect storm and made fighting the fires more difficult, and ...
Highlights of PRI’s 2025 Sir Antony Fisher Dinner
This week, we present a special episode featuring highlights from PRI’s 2025 Sir Antony Fisher Dinner, which was held last month in San Mateo. Noted author, historian and commentator Victor Davis Hanson shares his thoughts on the assassination of Charlie Kirk and how the conservative movement should respond to this ...
Naomi Riley – Lives Cut Short
This week, Naomi Riley – American Enterprise Institute senior fellow – joins us to discuss her latest work on child welfare issues. It is a project called Lives Cut Short (www.livescutshort.org), which is an online database that looks at how states are underreporting incidents of children who have died of ...
Watch Tim Anaya discuss California’s crime challenges with “America’s Criminologist”
Watch PRI vice president of marketing and communications Tim Anaya discuss California’s ongoing crime challenges and his book The California Left Coast Survivor’s Guide on “America’s Criminologist with Dr. Currie Myers” on KMET Radio in San Bernardino.
Assembly Republican Leader Emeritus James Gallagher – The Exit Interview
Our special guest this week is outgoing Assembly Republican Leader – and the very first guest on Next Round podcast – James Gallagher. He looks back on his time as GOP leader, reflecting on his biggest accomplishments, what surprised him the most during his leadership, his partisan battles with Speaker ...
The PRI All Stars 2025 End of Session Wrap Up
This week, we present our annual end of session look back at the just-concluded legislative session. Steven Greenhut, Matt Fleming and Tim Anaya share their thoughts on the hot issues debated in the final weeks of the legislative session, including the cap-and-trade deal, high-speed rail funding, charter school legislation, housing ...
Kerry McDonald – Joyful Learning
From FreedomFest 2025 in Palm Springs, Tim talks with Kerry McDonald, senior fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and State Policy Network education fellow about her new book Joyful Learning, which explores new, low-cost K–12 learning models that favor individualized, learner-centered education. They also talk about the Trump administration’s ...
A Conversation with Assemblyman Joe Patterson
We wrap up our series of podcasts on the hot issues being debated in the final weeks of the 2025 legislative session with a conversation with Assemblyman Joe Patterson, R-Rocklin. They discuss the Gavin Newsom redistricting proposal, the bills that aren’t getting the attention they should be at the end ...
Matt Rexroad – On the Gavin Newsom Redistricting Scheme
Continuing our series of podcasts on hot issues being debated during the final weeks of the 2025 legislative session, longtime political strategist, redistricting consultant, and former elected official Matt Rexroad joins us to break down Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting scheme and what it will mean for fair elections in California. ...
Catherine Reheis-Boyd – Ensuring Fuel is Plentiful and Affordable in California
This week, we start a series of podcasts featuring conversations on some of the hottest issues being debated at the State Capitol in the final weeks of the 2025 legislative session. We’re pleased to be joined by Western States Petroleum Association president and CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd, one of the most ...
Steven Greenhut – Protecting Cities from Wildfires
Free Cities Center director Steven Greenhut joins us to discuss his latest booklet focusing on the lessons learned from January’s destructive Southern California wildfires. They talk about policy-created problems on brush clearing, water, and land use policy that created a perfect storm and made fighting the fires more difficult, and ...
