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John Yoo: Leviathan By Thomas Hobbes
interview with John Yoo via PragerUHoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses how Hobbes’s seminal work, Leviathan, has shaped political philosophy for centuries.
In Loco Masculi
The feminization of the American university is all but complete.
TEACHING AGENCY AS MORAL FREDOM
AEI, AGENCY & TEACHING MORAL FREEDOM
Unlocking the Future

CATHOLIC SCHOOL CANARD
WHY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS MATTER
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CLOSURES
CITY JOURNAL THE MIRACLE THAT IS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Losing a Lifeline
CITY JOURNAL, CATHOLIC SCHOOLS & INNOVATION
​CITY JOURNAL, WHY WE STILL NEED CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

Andrew writes for National Review’s most recent issue about Robert George and how his work "offers a pathway to cement a conservative consensus and recapture institutions now dominated by progressives."
Countering China’s Coercive Diplomacy
The Grand Inquisitor and the Voice of Freedom
Dostoevsky's tale reveals the perennial value of freedom, set against the perverse claims of social engineering.
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Materialism: The False God of Modern Science
The Demolition of the Western Mind
Where’s the Line?  On the Kalven Report, academic freedom, and the limits of institutional neutrality
'Those Who Pursue Self-interest through Politics'
The Bravest Man in Education Reform
Robert Pondiscio | Thomas B. Fordham Institute
In seeking to inspire young people, Agency by Ian Rowe (Templeton Press, 2022) also inspires those of us who have set out to nurture and guide them, but who have fallen, morally exhausted, into the foolish and easy comforts of blame and low expectations. Rowe is calling on us to rediscover our own sense of agency and, in doing so, help young people discover theirs.
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Michael Polanyi's theory of knowledge helps us understand why classical education is such a necessary preparation for engaging the world.
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Chester Finn: What You May Not Know-But Should-About The Nation's Report Card
Truth Is What Our Schools Need
The End Of School Reform?
by Chester E. Finn Jr. via National Affairs
State level success for school choice
 Max Eden et al. | American Enterprise Institute | December 6, 2021
How to Dissent Without Losing Your Career, or Your Republic by Michelle Macander
A new group battling for freedom of thought in education
Frederick M. Hess | Education Week
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Higher education just isn’t built for men right now
Naomi Schaefer Riley | Deseret News
Academic transparency is gaining traction in the states
Max Eden | AEIdeas
Thirteen states have passed legislation or regulations alleging to “ban” critical race theory. But parents need a clear and direct window into school curricula. Schools should publicly post all materials used in the classroom so parents can see — at a glance online — what is being taught.
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Stress Topped the Reasons Why Teachers Quit, Even Before COVID-19
Islamism Is Stunting Turkish Academic Achievement by Burak Bekdil
BESA Center Perspectives

https://www.meforum.org/61993/islamism-is-stunting-turkish-academic-achievement
In Search Of An Education Breakthrough
by Clint Bolick, Kate J. Hardiman via Defining Ideas
Schools need top-to-bottom transformation, and there’s no more time to waste.
The next conservative education agenda
Where conservatives should lead on federal education policy in 2021
Michael Q. McShane | January 2021
 
Conservatives have an opportunity to play a productive role in federal education policymaking. They have to do more than just say no.

Early childhood education policy should center on family and work to make family life in America easier.

Federal K–12 policy should focus on deregulating existing programs and broadening their eligibility to allow new and different providers to access federal funds.

Higher education policy should diminish the power of existing gatekeepers and open the field for more innovation, with new means of ensuring that dollars are spent well.
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Interactive map: State-level performance of K–12 public schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia
Katharine B. Stevens | American Enterprise Institute
This map provides state-level information on eighth-grade reading and math achievement, achievement gaps, and per-student spending.
Hoover Institution Press Publishes Unshackled: Freeing America's K-12 Education System
via Hoover Daily Report
The Hoover Institution Press has published Unshackled: Freeing America’s K–12 Education System by Research Fellow Clint Bolick and Kate J. Hardiman , a former teacher and advocate for educational change.  HOOVER

Why it’s so lonely at the top
Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic
It can be lonely at the top. But loneliness is not a necessary condition of success any more than unpaid taxes are a condition of making a lot of money. It is just a cost one must face honestly and manage.
Treat the National Assessment of Education Progress as a reality check, not an advocacy exercise
The St. John Paul II Guild & the Future of Education
It’s time to modernize Department of Defense resourcing  
Elaine McCusker | AEIdeas
4 rules for identifying your life’s work
Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic
Graduation is a leap into uncertainty even during ordinary times, and COVID-19 times are far from ordinary. Arthur Brooks' advice to all graduates remains the same as it would have been without a pandemic: Find your marshmallow.
The best way to handle your decline is to confront it head-on
Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic
A Punitive and Senseless Education-Funding Proposal – Max Eden, Manhattan Institute
Bailing Out the Academic Fleet?
by David DeavelMany of us who work in higher education are aware that we are working on boats that are not only “academically adrift," but which have been leaking furiously for years. Given the demographics and the broader economic devastation wrought by our foolish response to the Coronavirus, it is unlikely that even a bailout will allow for much more than the playing of a song as the academic ships sink... [MORE]
Break up the college cartel
Frederick M. Hess | National Review | November 7, 2019
PREMIUM COLLEGES & HIGHER PAYCHECKS?
Busting the college-industrial complex
Academic Descent
Two books survey how the university came to prize ideology over ideas.
Finally getting serious about professional military education
(War On The Rocks) Two years ago, much of the professional military education community was startled by the National Defense Strategy’s declaration that its wares had stagnated and that the community had lost focus on lethality and ingenuity.
RISING TUITION & COLLEGE JOBS
COLLEGE DEGREE'S AND JOBS:  THE STORY
Dr. Sian Beilock, an expert on performance and brain science, reveals in Choke the astonishing new science of why we all too often blunder when the stakes are high. What happens in our brain and body when we experience the dreaded performance anxiety? And what are we doing differently when everything magically "clicks" into place and the perfect golf swing, tricky test problem, or high-pressure business pitch becomes easy? In an energetic tour of the latest brain science, with surprising insights on every page, Beilock explains the inescapable links between body and mind; reveals the surprising similarities among the ways performers, students, athletes, and business people choke; and shows how to succeed brilliantly when it matters most.

In lively prose and accessibly rendered science, Beilock examines how attention and working memory guide human performance, how experience and practice and brain development interact to create our abilities, and how stress affects all these factors. She sheds new light on counter-intuitive realities, like why the highest-performing people are most susceptible to choking under pressure, why we may learn foreign languages best when we’re not paying attention, why early childhood athletic training can backfire, and how our emotions can make us both smarter and dumber. All these fascinating findings about academic, athletic, and creative intelligence come together in Beilock's new ideas about performance under pressure—and her secrets to never choking again.
https://www.amazon.com/Choke-Secrets-Brain-Reveal-Getting/dp/B0043UKNLE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Sian+Beilock+Choke&qid=1587347202&s=books&sr=1-1
The Catholic School in the Pluralist Polis
By Thaddeus Kozinski on Jun 20, 2020 03:59 pm
A traditional liberal arts curriculum elevates the tastes, ennobles the sentiments, and orders the mind to truth: Socratic questioning forces critical reflection on the content and coherency of one’s ideas; a vigorous and integrated life of grace and prayer keeps the mind and heart strong, pure, integrated, and focused on Jesus Christ. Yet to ...
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By what standards do we distinguish real growth from regression, real freedom from veiled enslavement? Read More »
Are You an Ultralearner?
By Joe Byerly, From the Green Notebook: "I recently finished Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H. Young. This is an interesting read and in many respects can serve as the self-development bible for those addicted to learning."
Workforce of tomorrow: How early childcare shapes adult employment  
Brent Orrell and Katharine B. Stevens | "Hardly Working"
HOW TO WIN WITHOUT COLLEGE
COLLEGE ISN'T FOR EVERYONE:  HERE'S HOW TO SUCCEED WITHOUT IT
Training to Thrive in a Toxic National Security Profession by Tammy S. Schultz

Cult of the Irrelevant
By Jessica D. Blankshain, Strategy Bridge: "The Beltway and the Ivory Tower—these two colloquialisms evoke images of secluded elites, cut off from reality, focused on their own narrow interests. In the first case, policymakers and politicians in Washington, D.C. are portrayed as suits interested only in what happens within the confines of the highway circling the city. In the latter, we envision elbow-patched professors on secluded college campuses pondering theory for the sake of theory, unconcerned with real-world applications."
Book Review Roundtable: Cult of the Irrelevant 
by Bridget Coggins, Peter Dombrowski, John H. Maurer, and Galen Jackson

 HOW TO BE YOUR OWN AGENT

The Largest Defense Companies on the Globe, Revealed 
By Jill Aitoro, Defense News: “So who’s up and who’s down for 2018, based on 2017 defense revenue?”

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 Global Ranking of Think Tanks Internationally From University of Pennsylvania 

Global Report on Ranking:  PDF file

http://gotothinktank.com/dev1/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/GoToReport2013.pdf
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​Links to Think Tanks
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  The Defense News Top 100 list is in
(Defense News) Find out who's on top in the 2018 list, and who didn't make it this year.

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