The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts.  Today’s guest brings decades of experience as one of the people responsible for ensuring that our elected members of the House and Senate, and their staffs, have information they need to make informed policy decisions.  Mark Holt, Energy Policy Specialist, with the non partisan Congressional Research Service, brings a unique perspective on nuclear energy policy that you won’t to miss.  Jack and Mark discuss how nuclear policy has changed over the years and some of the policy challenges that the technology currently facesJoin the conversation with an email to  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

For the first time in half a decade, Heritage Foundation interns and Cato Institute interns will face off to debate some of the biggest policy questions of our time. By digging into controversial issues such as immigration, national security, international trade, and regulation, representatives of each program will seek to answer the question, “Do Libertarians or Conservatives propose more effective solutions to public policy issues?”

The debate will be moderated by the American Enterprise Institute’s Matthew Continetti, a foremost scholar and journalist of the Conservative Movement and author of The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts.  Jack welcomes the Cato Institute’s Nicolas Anthony back to the Power Hour, who is joined this time by his colleague Norbert Michel, Vice President for Cato’s Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Alternatives.  They pick up their conversation from a few months ago to dig deeper into what actually is cryptocurrency and why does the industry require so much energy.   And of course, no Power Hour episode would be complete without a complete analysis of how government could ruin something good and innovative.  You can read more from Anthony and Norbert here and here and  on a variety of issues here and following them on socials here and here.    Join the conversation with an email to  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies is pleased to announce that Peter Robinson, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, will deliver the inaugural Lee Edwards Lecture in Conservative Leadership. The title of his speech is “How Ronald Reagan Won the Cold War.”

The Heritage Foundation established the annual Lee Edwards Lecture in recognition of Dr. Edwards’s long service as a Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at Heritage, during which time he wrote most of his 25 books about the leading individuals and institutions of the modern conservative movement. Dr. Edwards authored biographies of President Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr., and Edwin Meese III, as well as histories of The Heritage Foundation, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), and the conservative movement. His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, and Polish.

Join us for the official launch of Dr. Corey DeAngelis’ new book, The Parent Revolution, in which he unapologetically argues why parents and political leaders must lean into the culture war taking place in schools. Dr. DeAngelis exposes the hypocritical elites who are content to hold other people’s children captive to poorly run government schools while sending their own children to the best private and charter schools out there. And most importantly, he equips readers with the ability to make sure the potent forces of the educational industrial complex don’t regain their footing.

January 2021 marked the beginning of an illegal immigration boom in the United States, which has led to a drastic increase in violent crime across the country. In many cases, the criminal aliens were present not in spite of federal, state, or local policy but because of intentional policy choices advanced by the left.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. This week Jack welcomes Founder and President of the Global America Business Institute (GABI), Florence Lowe-Lee to the Power Hour. Jack and Florence discuss how the decades long partnership that the U.S. has developed with South Korea on commercial nuclear energy issues yields immense strategic and economic benefits to both countries. Did you know that South Korea provided some of the most important components to America’s newest reactors or that South Korea’s commercial nuclear export business creates thousands of U.S. jobs?  You will know that and a lot more after hearing this great episode. Check out GABI’s website here to learn more about their great work. Join the conversation with an email to  thepowerhour@heritage.org! Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack invites one of the nation’s leading experts on commercial nuclear energy, Edward Davis, to the Power Hour this week. With decades of experience in industry and government, Ed brings a unique perspective to nuclear energy policy that you won’t want to miss.  Jack and Ed cover everything from nuclear waste policy to new reactor finance to why the promise of a nuclear renaissance remains difficult to fulfil despite growing support for the technology. Join the conversation with an email to  thepowerhour@heritage.org! Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack talks this week Dr. David Legates, Director of Research and Education at the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, about climate change and sea levels, and you won’t believe what he has to say. Dr. Legates, who holds a Ph.D. in climatology, and brings decades of research and experience to the table, specializes in hydroclimatology/surface water hydrology—in other words, he knows his stuff. If you want to know what is really happening with climate and sea levels, you don’t want to miss this one! You can learn more about Dr. Legates and his organization here, read a recent paper he wrote on the subject here, and to really go deep on climate change, check out his recent book, Climate and Energy, The Case for Realism, here and here. Join the conversation with an email to  thepowerhour@heritage.org! Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

Throughout her ten years of service at the highest levels of the British government, former Prime Minister Liz Truss bore witness to the dangerous schemes of the Global Left, who continue to push their model of corporate state-socialism on the world.

In her new book, Ten Years to Save the West: Leading the Revolution Against Globalism, Socialism, and the Liberal Establishment, Truss warns us that “freedom is at risk,” and conservatives in the west desperately need to defend it. Truss asserts that conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic have allowed the Left to push their agenda of larger government and curtailing individual freedom too far. She also highlights how the ever-expanding “administrative state” is fast extinguishing the traditional norms of sovereignty and democratic accountability, which should be a universal cause for concern.

Keeping Taiwan free from the grasp of the Chinese Communist Party is a vital interest of the United States. An attack on the democratic, self-governing island by the People’s Republic of China would gravely threaten the security and prosperity of everyday Americans. This represents just one of the key conclusions reached in the landmark research paper published this month by Heritage Research Fellow Michael Cunningham, The American Case for Taiwan. Taiwan’s indispensability to the U.S. was further reinforced by a Heritage delegation to Taipei in February 2024 led by President Kevin Roberts. Please join us for a lively discussion with Dr. Roberts and Michael Cunningham as we explore one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints and the right American strategy to keep Taiwan free from the CCP.