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What Happens Next in 6 Minutes

What Happens Next offers listeners an in-depth investigation of the most pressing issues of the day. Visit https://www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/ for all the links and to subscribe www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

Website ↗ Last published 24 October 2026 318 posts collected by Sputnik

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“It doesn't matter, even if it turns out that like 90% of the research in sociology is good. If I can't trust that research to be neutral or to be rigorous, I can't trust any of that research.” — Ashley Rubin, What Happens Next in 6 Minutes
Ashley Rubin · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I'm paying like $50,000 a year and you're not paying a dime. I said, yeah, but you get a degree. I only get an education. That's right. Education is free, but the credential is expensive. And the credential matters today because the employer can't properly evaluate the individual. But that can change.” — Larry Bernstein, What Happens Next in 6 Minutes
Larry Bernstein · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The most important thing is still opportunity. In the U.S., there are so many chances in your life. In China, this is almost the only opportunity. So that's why people work so hard on it.” — Hongbin Li, What Happens Next in 6 Minutes
Hongbin Li · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“What the Qing emperor did is he abolished the test. Then suddenly, all the elites in China lost the hope to move up the hierarchy. They went up to protest and overthrow the government. That's the end of Qing dynasty, basically.” — Hongbin Li, What Happens Next in 6 Minutes
Hongbin Li · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“In 1666 London burnt down. Sir Christopher Wren, a very highly esteemed architect, came to the king with a plan with arterial roads and said, this is our chance. And the king said, look, this fire was traumatic for these people. If now I start expropriating land, there's going to be a revolution. … People started to clean the debris and rebuilt London exactly along the same property lines two weeks later.” — Shlomo Angel, What Happens Next in 6 Minutes
Shlomo Angel · 26 Sep 2026 Listen →
“It's not really that effective to go after a prosecutor because guess what? There's a million prosecutors and somebody else can just be handed the file. It's a lot more effective to go after a witness who's going to get up on the stand and point the finger at you.” — Ethan Holland, What Happens Next in 6 Minutes
Ethan Holland · 19 Sep 2026 Listen →
“Television does not change accents. No research has ever shown that television has a profound influence on the way we sound.” — Valerie Fridland, What Happens Next in 6 Minutes
Valerie Fridland · 5 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

What Happens Next in 6 Minutes is hosted by Larry Bernstein , Rick Banks , Mitch Feinman and Todd Benson .

Recent Episodes

  1. 24 Oct 2026

    How Politics Undermines Scholarship

    With Ashley Rubin

  2. 24 Oct 2026

    How Politics Undermines Scholarship

  3. 17 Oct 2026

    How High-Stakes Chinese College Exams Can Change Your Life

    With Hongbin Li

  4. 10 Oct 2026

    AI and Human Connections

    With Allison Pugh and Eddie Monroe

  5. 3 Oct 2026

    How Your Politics Affects Your College Experience

    With Neil Gross

  6. 26 Sep 2026

    Why All Cities Grow Alike

    With Shlomo Angel

  7. 19 Sep 2026

    Cape Fear Won’t Die

    With Ethan Holland

  8. 19 Sep 2026

    Cape Fear Won’t Die

    With Ethan Holland

  9. 12 Sep 2026

    Can Evolution Explain Our Feelings?

    With Rob Kurzban

  10. 12 Sep 2026

    Can Evolution Explain Our Feelings?

    With Rob Kurzban

  11. 5 Sep 2026

    I Love Your Accent

    With Valerie Fridland

  12. 29 Aug 2026

    Unsafe at MIT

    With Yossi Sheffi

Guests

Ari Ciment (13 episodes), Darren Schwartz (11 episodes), Patrick Allitt (7 episodes), Myron Scholes (6 episodes), Paul Kennedy (5 episodes), John Bolton (5 episodes), Gerald Posner (5 episodes), John McGinnis (4 episodes), Eric Kaufmann (4 episodes), H. W. Brands (4 episodes), James Holmes (4 episodes), Scott Turow (4 episodes), and 396 more.