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The Los Altos Institution Speaker Series brings senior policy practitioners into conversation with our fellows — analysts from Cato, Brookings, the American Enterprise Institute, Hudson and Heritage, alongside candidates for statewide office in California.
Every session is recorded and published in full on our YouTube channel, free to watch.
Recorded sessions
From National Security to National Defense: Priorities, Power, and Tradeoffs
Betty Yee on California's Budget, Housing, Homelessness & Affordability
Ian Calderon on Affordability, Innovation, and the Future of California
Fault Lines in the Horn of Africa: Maritime Goals, Insurgencies, and State Collapse
Is Domestic Protectionism Still Justified? Shipping Laws & Trade Policy
Inside China's Industrial Policy Playbook — What the U.S. Can (and Can't) Learn
It's Complicated: The United States–India Relationship
Hormuz to Levant: The U.S. Playbook for a Contested Middle East
From Foundries to Fleets: Techno-Industrial Policy & Indo-Pacific Security
Soft Power, Hard Targets: Terrorism, the Middle East & America's Choices
Podcast episodes are not listed yet. The sessions above are the Speaker Series recordings published on the Institution's YouTube channel. If the podcast runs on a separate channel or feed, send the link and it gets its own section here.
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