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Mar 19, 2012
In fall 2009, President Obama took the unusual step of delivering a back-to-school message to the nation's students. He described his listeners' potential to become a doctor, a teacher, a police officer, a nurse, an architect, a lawyer or a member of the military.
His punch line was: "You're going to need a good education for every single one of those careers."
Dec 27, 2011
So now it’s Theodore Roosevelt’s turn. One wonders how many other presidents our current president will channel before he’s through. Let’s see, we’ve already had Barack Obama as Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and John Kennedy. He’s either presented himself or been presented as our redeemer president (Lincoln), our Ivy League scholar president (Wilson), our he-saved-us-from-economic collapse president (FDR), and our youthful celebrity president (JFK). Why, President Obama has even tried to draw parallels to a not-so-youthful celebrity president by the name of Reagan.
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Jul 18, 2011
A reasonable reading of the following 34 brief essays in American Experiment’s newest symposium—What Governmental Services and Benefits Are You Personally Willing to Give Up?—suggests that more Americans than generally assumed may be seriously willing to sacrifice when it comes to major entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. In the interest of balancing the nation’s skewed books, the columns similarly suggest that more people than routinely thought may be willing to forgo various exemptions and other tax breaks, including near-sacred deductions on home mortgage payments.
Jul 4, 2011
In 1926, on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, one of our most ridiculed and misunderstood presidents journeyed to Philadelphia to deliver a speech.
The president was Calvin Coolidge. "Silent Cal" was known as a man of few words, but some of the words he did utter remain well worth our time and thought. Still others deserve to be put in context.
Jan 8, 2011
For the past 20 years or so, I've begun each semester by asking students to give me three lists of three things: topics they'd like to learn more about, their most notorious historical villains, and their most noteworthy heroes.
Mar 19, 2010
Rumbling along just beneath the surface of our long-running debate over something called “health care” is an ancient prejudice of modern liberals. Like all prejudices, this one contains a kernel of truth. But unlike many prejudices, this one is no longer remotely serviceable.
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Dec 2, 2009
Why this new American Experiment symposium? For a variety of reasons, starting with the assumption that unless commerce in a neighborhood—or at least in its vicinity—is vibrant, chances are little else will be either, including income levels, public safety, and graduation rates, to pick just three gauges.
Jun 2, 2009
In this symposium, a roster of American Experiment Fellows provides their perspective on what it will take for Americans and Minnesotans to get serious about this impending entitlement crisis.
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Mar 1, 2009
How Can Conservatism Better Allay the Economic Fears of Working-Class and Middle-Class Americans? is the third in a current series of American Experiment symposia aimed at vitalizing conservatism in Minnesota and the nation.
