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November 10, 2009 Healthcare David Gratzer, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about his new broadside, "Why Obama's Government Takeover of Health-Care Will Be a Disaster".

October 13, 2009 Health Related Tort Reform Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, interview Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, about Trial Lawyers Inc: Healthcare.

October 6, 2009 Retail Clinics Mary Kate Scott, founder and CEO of Scott & Co, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about the retail clinic model and what the future of the model may hold for consumer-driven health care.

September 14, 2009 Healthcare Co-ops Scott Harrington talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress about healthcare co-ops.

September 16, 2009 Reforming NY's Health Insurance Market Stephen Parente and Tarren Bragdon talk to Paul Howard about "Healthier Choice: An Examination of Market-Based Reforms for New York's Uninsured".

September 3, 2009 Healthcare Reform John Cochrane talks to Paul Howard about what to do about preexisting conditions

August 19, 2009 Health Insurance Markets David Hyman, Director of the Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy at the University of Illinois, talks to Paul Howard, on competition in health insurance markets.

August 18, 2009 Education Marcus Winters and Jay Greene discuss how vouchers in special-education actually help reduce the financial incentives that exist in most states to inaccurately place low-achieving students in special-education.

July 17, 2008 Guy Sorman book City Journal contributing editor Guy Sorman and Professor Jagdish Bhagwadi discuss free market economics and Mr. Sorman's new book, "Economics Does Not Lie".

New York Tomorrow Max Schulz discuss his article with Energize! City Journal editor Brian Anderson.

August 5, 2009 Healthcare Reform James Capretta talks to Paul Howard about the most problematic aspects of the healthcare legislation on Capitol Hill

A Conversation on Free Markets Guy Sorman and Paul Romer, Senior Fellow at Stanford University Center for International Development and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research discuss economic growth.

July 30, 2009 Healthcare Reform David Gratzer talks to Paul Howard about the public plan option and what dangers it presents.

July 29, 2009 New York's Tomorrow Brian Anderson and Patrick McClosky Discuss The Uses of Vouchers: Dolan to the Rescue?

July 29, 2007 New York's Tomorrow Paul Beston and Jay Greene Discuss The Uses of Vouchers: Keeping Promises

July 28, 2009 "New York's Tomorrow" Stefan Kanfer and City Journal editor Brian Anderson discuss, "Booms and Busts."

July 27, 2009 A Conversation on Free Markets Guy Sorman and Dr. Rama Cont, associate professor at Columbia University's IEOR Department, discuss the current economic crisis and the role free market principles play in its recovery.

July 22, 2009 Reform Healthcare Markets Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for RealClearMarkets.com, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about the Democrats legislation in the House of Representatives to reform healthcare markets.

July 20, 2009 A Conversation on Free Markets Guy Sorman and Dr. Alberto Alesina, professor of political economics at Harvard University, discuss the current economic crisis.

July 20, 2009 New York's Tomorrow James Panero and City Journal managing editor Ben Plotinsky discuss "The Culture Crash."

July 20, 2009 Biomedical Innovation - Part I Elias Zerhouni, senior fellow in the Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and former director the U.S. National Institutes of Health, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about U.S. leadership in biomedical innovation, the role of innovation in healthcare reform, and what the U.S. can do to ensure that it can remain the leader in biomedical innovation in the 21st century - Part I

July 15, 2009 A Conversation on Free Markets Guy Sorman, City Journal contributing editor and author of Economics Does Not Lie, and Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate and economics professor at the University of Chicago, discuss the current economic crisis and capitalism.

July 8, 2009 NYC MTA City Journal editor Brian Anderson and City Journal contributing editor and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Nicole Gelinas discuss her article, "Transit for Tomorrow," from the City Journal Special Issue, "New York's Tomorrow."

July 8, 2009 "New York's Tomorrow" Edward Glaeser discusses his article "The Reinventive City" with City Journal senior editor Steven Malanga.

July 06, 2009 NYC and Litigation City Journal associate editor Paul Beston and Manhattan Institute senior fellow John Avlon discuss his article, "Sue City," from the City Journal Special Issue, "New York's Tomorrow."

July 6, 2009 Health Insurance Markets Gail Wilensky, an economist and a senior fellow at Project HOPE, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about arguments that the President and members of Congress have made arguing for a public insurance plan to compete with private insurers and what other models are available to improve choice and competition in health insurance markets.

July 2, 2009 NYC Financial Health City Journal editor Brian Anderson and City Journal senior editor Steven Malanga discuss his article, from the City Journal Special Issue, "New York's Tomorrow."

July 1, 2009 Overcriminalization Marie Gryphon, senior fellow at the Center for Legal Policy, interviews John Hasnas, an associate professor of business at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and author of Trapped: When Acting Ethically Is Against the Law, about how criminal law creates moral dilemmas for corporate officers.

June 29, 2009 Medical Banking Stephen Parente, Academic Director, Medical Industry Leadership Institute Carson School Of Management, Finance & Insurance, University of Minnesota, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about his idea for medical banking.

June 22, 2009 Healthcare Across the U.S. Joseph Antos, the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about health spending disparities across the U.S. and what they tell us about American healthcare.

June 15, 2009 The Importance of Healthcare Sidney Taurel, former CEO and Chairman of Eli Lilly, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about the future of the pharmaceutical industry, the future of healthcare, and the importance of thinking of healthcare as an investment in human capital.

June 12, 2009 Overcriminalization Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviews Judge Alex Kozinski and attorney Misha Tseytlin about their essay on overcriminalization entitled "You're (probably) A Federal Criminal".

June 11, 2009 Book Review: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement Brian Anderson and Richard Brookhiser discuss Right Time, Right Place.

June 8, 2009 Overcriminalization Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviewed Ken Langone on his thoughts about the overcriminalization of corporate conduct from the legal and business perspectives.

June 8, 2009 Overcriminalization Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviewed Dick Thornburgh on his thoughts about the overcriminalization of corporate conduct from the legal and business perspectives.

June 8, 2009 Healthcare Reform Betsy McCaughey, Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and former Lt. Governor of New York State, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about the truth about healthcare reforms that have been proposed.

June 4, 2009 Cap-and-Trade Jim Manzi and Howard Husock, Vice President of Policy Research, discuss the implications of the implications of the Waxman-Markey climate-energy bill.

June 1, 2009 Sotomayor Nomination Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviews Ilya Somin, assistant professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, on Sonia Sotomayor's judicial record regarding property rights.

June 1, 2009 How To Cut Healthcare Costs Dana Goldman, Senior Principal Researcher at the RAND Corporation, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about misconceptions on how to cut healthcare costs.

May 25, 2009 The State of Healthcare Marketplace in the U.S Regina Herzlinger, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about the state of the healthcare marketplace in the U.S.

May 18, 2009 Health Care Reform Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, interviews Douglas Holtz-Eakin about his new report, "Forging a New Plan For Healthcare: Principles and Priorities for Sustainable Reform".

May 5, 2009 America's Universities In the latest podcast for MindingTheCampus.com, John Leo interviews Donald Downs of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about academic freedom and its true meaning.

May 1, 2009 Health Care Reform William Winkenwerder, former assistant secretary of health affairs at the Department of Defense, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about public and private sector examples of successful health care innovation and what we can learn from them for the debate over health care reform.

April 24, 2009 Reforming Teacher Quality Marcus Winters, Manhattan Institute senior fellow interviews Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, about his research on teacher quality.

April 22, 2009 Reforming Teacher Quality Howard Husock, Vice President of Research, interviews Temp Keller, Founder & President, Resources for Indispensable Schools & Educators (RISE) about his work.

April 13, 2009 Health Care Reform Arnold Kling, economist and author, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about rising health care costs, why insurance now pays for routine health care expenses, and how we can promote innovation and competition in markets dominated by 3rd party payers.

April 10, 2009 Health Care Reform Dan Petrylak, associate professor of medicine and director of the genitourinary oncology program at the Columbia University Medical Center, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about the future of cancer care, and how to make better, more effective treatments a reality.

April 4, 2009 Health Care Reform Evan Falchuk, president of Best Doctors, talks to Paul Howard, director of the Center for Medical Progress, about how we define "the best" in health care and how can we leverage individual excellence to drive system wide improvements.

April 2, 2009 Book Review: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters Brian Anderson, City Journal editor, and Claire Berlinski discuss "There is No Alternative"

March 20, 2009 Employee Free Choice Act Jim Copland, the director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviews Richard Epstein about the problems with the Employee Free Choice Act.

February 19, 2009 Urban Ghettos Howard Husock, Manhattan Institute's Vice President of Policy Research and a City Journal contributing editor, discusses his article, "Slums of Hope," with Ben Plotinsky, City Journal managing editor.

February 11, 2009 The Myth on Green Jobs Max Schulz, Manhattan Institute senior fellow, discusses his article, "The Green-Jobs Engine That Can't," with Brian Anderson, City Journal editor.

February 6, 2009 Reforming America's Schools Charles Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, discusses his book, "Real Education" and the future of the University with John Leo, MindingTheCampus.com editor.

February 5, 2009 America's Universities Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University, discusses the future of higher education in the U.S. with John Leo, MindingTheCampus.com editor.

February 3, 2009 Welfare Reform - The Next Step Steven Malanga, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and City Journal contributing editor, discusses his article, "Welfare Reform, Phase Two," with Brian Anderson, City Journal editor.

January 22, 2009 The Credit Crisis Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and City Journal contributing editor, discusses her article, "Can the Feds Uncrunch Credit?," with Brian Anderson, editor of City Journal.

January 15, 2009 How the Tax Code Influences Investment in Energy Capital Dr. Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics at Tufts University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, discusses his newest report "Taxing Energy in the United States: Which Fuels Does the Tax Code Favor?" with the Manhattan Institute's Vice President of Policy Research Howard Husock.

January 8, 2009 Reforming America's Schools In the latest MindingTheCampus.com podcast, editor John Leo interviews contributor Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, or Don't Trust Anyone Under 30.

December 8, 2008 City Journal editor Brian Anderson interviews contributing editor Stefan Kanfer about his new book, Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando.

December 5, 2008 The MTA Budget Crisis Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and City Journal contributing editor, discusses her article and the MTA's financial crisis with Paul Beston, associate editor of City Journal.

December 2, 2008 Loser Pays Marie Gryphon, senior fellow at the Center for Legal Policy, discusses her report, "Greater Justice, Lower Cost: How a "Loser Pays" Rule Would Improve the American Legal System" with Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy.

November 17, 2008 Dating in the Modern Age Benjamin Plotinsky, City Journal managing editor, interviews Kay Hymowitz, City Journal contributing editor, about her latest piece, "Love in the Time of Darwinism".

November 14, 2008 New York's School Report Cards Marcus Winters, Manhattan Institute senior fellow, discusses his newest report "Grading New York: An Evaluation of New York City's Progress Reports Program" with the Manhattan Institute's Vice President of Policy Research Howard Husock.

October 29, 2008 Health Care Innovation Frank Lichtenberg, health economist at Columbia University, interviewed by Paul Howard, senior fellow and director of the Center for Medical Progress, on his newest report "Alive and Working: How Access to New Drugs has Slowed the Growth in America's Disability Rates"

October 17, 2008 Health Care Reform David Gratzer, senior fellow at the Center for Medical Progress, is interviewed by Paul Howard, senior fellow and director of the Center for Medical Progress, about his article, "McCain is the Real Health-Care Reformer"

September 4, 2008 Legal Reform Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviews Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and visiting scholar at the Manhattan Institute, about his most recent book, Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property

August 28, 2008 Health Care Enterpreneurs Paul Howard, senior fellow at the Center for Medical Progress and Ben Plotinsky, Managing Editor, City Journal discuss "Health Care's New Entrepreneurs".

August 24, 2008 Professional Pandhandling City Journal senior editor Steven Malanga discusses his article, The Professional Panhandling Plague with City Journal editor Brian Anderson.

August 13, 2008 Reforming America's Schools City Journal contributing editor Sol Stern and City Journal associate editor Paul Beston Discuss "A Marshall Plan for Reading".

July 8, 2008 Costs of Construction PART I: Hope Cohen, deputy director of the Center for Rethinking Development, interviews economist Rosemary Scanlon on the costs of construction in New York City. In part I of this two part interview, Hope and Rosemary discuss the economic context of construction in New York City.

July 8, 2008 Costs of Construction PART II: Hope Cohen, deputy director of the Center for Rethinking Development, interviews economist Rosemary Scanlon on the costs of construction in New York City. In part II, they discuss key findings and recommendations from the July 2008 Manhattan Institute report authored by Rosemary, "Raise the Roof, Lower the Costs: Construction Costs and Housing Affordability in New York City".

July 2, 2008 Accountability Testing and Low Stakes Subjects In this podcast interview, Howard Husock, Vice President for Policy Research at the Manhattan Institute, interviews Manhattan Institute senior fellow Marcus A. Winters about his newest study, "Building on the Basics: The Impact of High Stakes Testing on Low Stakes Subjects", which evaluates the impact of Florida's high stakes accountability testing on student proficiency in science.

May 9, 2008 Trial Lawyers Inc.: Asbestos Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, and Lester Brickman, professor at the Cordozo School of Law and renowned expert on asbestos litigation, discuss the evolution of asbestos litigation and the measures that should be taken to prevent the continuation of abuses by the trial bar. Click here to read Trial Lawyers Inc.: Asbestos, a report on the asbestos litigation industry released in May 2008 by the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute.

May 8, 2008 California's Disastrous "Green" Economy Max Schulz, senior fellow and director of the Center for Energy Policy and the Environment, discusses his article, "California's Potemkin Environmentalism," from the Spring 2008 issue of City Journal, in a new podcast interview.

April 17, 2008 Global Warming Skepticism Max Schulz, Manhattan Institute senior fellow, interviews Professor Bjorn Lomborg, acclaimed author of the best-selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist and, more recently, of the new book Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, about the lecture he delivered before a Manhattan Institute audience on April 10, 2008.

January 30, 2008 Affirmative Action Senior Fellow John Leo interviews Ward Connerly of the American Civil Rights Institute on his efforts to eliminate racial preferences in five states this November. Leo and Connerly also discussed the role of diversity in university admissions.

January 29, 2008 Health Care Reform Senior Fellow Paul Howard interviews the Honorable Tom Coburn, Senator of Oklahoma, practising physician, and Manhattan Institute guest speaker, about his innovative proposal for health care reform. ..."We're going to go back to where the patient and the doctor make the decisions about what is in the best interest of the patient. And that means we're going to consider economic issues as well—not just this blind "It doesn't matter what it costs, we're going to do it." —Senator Tom Coburn

January 20, 2008 Reforming America's Schools City Journal's editor Brian Anderson and City Journal contributing editor Sol Stern discuss his article "School Choice Isn't Enough".

January 19, 2008 Dating in the Modern Age Brian Anderson and Kay Hymowitz Discuss "Child-Man in the Promise Land".

January 16, 2008 Vaccines and Autism Senior Fellow Paul Howard interviews Manhattan Institute guest speaker Dr. Paul Offit, Co-Inventor of the RotaTeq vaccine and author of Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases. ..."You now have an accumulated evidence that I think leads one to a truth, which is this compilation of now what are 16 negative studies that show that vaccines don't cause autism. I'm not sure that we need to put any more money into a hypothesis which clearly has been disproved."— Dr. Paul Offit

December 7, 2007 Legal Reform Professor Epstein's third lecture was titled "The New Antitrust: Reexamining Microsoft and Other Consent Decrees." Click here to listen to a podcast interview, in which Epstein gives James Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, an overview of important cases involving consent decrees.

December 7, 2007 Health Reform for NY Paul Howard, Acting Director of the Center for Medical Progress, interviews the Empire Center's Tarren Bragdon about his new report, RxNY.

November 8, 2007 The Supreme Court Richard Epstein, Manhattan Institute visiting fellow, with James Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, discusses his lecture entitled "Neither Liberal Nor Conservative: A Maverick's View of the Supreme Court." This is the second podcast in our Fall 2007 lecture series with Professor Epstein, called "Law, Litigation, and State Power."

October 27, 2007 Comparing Health Care Systems Paul Howard, managing editor of MedicalProgressToday.com, and June O'Neill, the Wollman Distinguished Professor Of Economics And Director Of The Center For The Study Of Business And Government at Baruch College, compare the U.S. and Canada's health care systems.

October 2007 City Journal editor Brian Anderson and Heather Mac Donald, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and City Journal contributing editor, discuss her new article "The Reclamation of Skid Row" from the autumn 2007 issue of City Journal.

October 15, 2007 Social Entrepreneurship Howard Husock, director of the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative and Vice President of Programs at the Manhattan Institute, discusses the importance of social entrepreneurship with Daniel A. Biederman, president of Bryant Park Corporation and the winner of the 2007 William E. Simon Lifetime Achievement Award.

October 10, 2007 Securities Liability Richard Epstein, Manhattan Institute visiting fellow, and James Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, discuss the event "Aiding and Abetting Securities Liability: Reflections on Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific-Atlanta." Professor Epstein examined the United States Supreme Court's pending case of Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific-Atlanta, in which the Court considered whether to expand the scope of private shareholder liability suits to third-party defendants.

October 7, 2007 America's Universities John Leo, editor of MindingTheCampus.com, and Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discuss the legacy of Allan Bloom's book, The Closing of the American Mind, and Berkowitz's recent Wall Street Journal article, Our Compassless Colleges.

September 7, 2007 Is Russia a Market Economy? City Journal editor Brian Anderson and Guy Sorman, City Journal contributor, discuss his new article "Moscow: Oil Town" from the autumn 2007 issue of City Journal.

August 5, 2007 Privatizing Infrastructure City Journal editor Brian Anderson interviews Steven Malanga, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and City Journal contributing editor, regarding his article "The New Privatization". This article originally appeared in the summer 2007 issue of City Journal.

July 9, 2007 The War on Terror City Journal editor Brian Anderson interviews Judith Miller, Manhattan Institute adjunct fellow and City Journal contributing editor, regarding her article "On the Front Line in the War on Terrorism". This article originally appeared in the summer 2007 issue of City Journal.

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