Brookings Institution’s Robert Litan offers A counterintuitive proposal for improving education and healing America: Debate-centered instruction (Brookings, September 27, 2018). Litan begins with a paragraph about current political and economic challenges then begins his...
[Updated from earlier post on earlier freedom vs. equity value debate topic] For students researching and debating the foreign aid reform and international terrorism debate topics, Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel, North and South offers food for...
Notes and links for presentation to the Student Conference On National Affairs (SCONA) Texas A&M University, February 25, 2011 Below are updated notes from my presentation to military students attending the 2011 Student Conference...
For prosperity and human flourishing, how much energy is enough? American settlers survived and over time prospered burning wood for cooking and heat. Later energy innovations brought higher-density energy from the earth, with coal,...
Many articles supporting foreign aid tell of polls showing Americans think foreign aid is 25% of the federal budget when, these articles claim, foreign aid is only 1.2%. The Balance post, Current U.S. Discretionary Spending:...
The school year has begun and immigration policy is in the news. Current national and Texas debate topics focus on immigration policy and values. The national NSDA (and UIL) policy topic is: Resolved: The...
The energy race is on, with separate lanes for teams advancing wind, solar, gas, coal, and oil sands technologies. Across the world enterprises race to discover and develop new energy-rich places and raw materials, searching...
(Revised from November 4, 2014/October 27, 2016 post) The United States doesn’t run an old-style foreign empire. But one could argue the U.S. runs an”experimental empire” where foreign military operations and foreign aid projects...
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in Why foreign aid fails – and how to really help Africa (The Spectator, January 2014) discuss the influence their book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and...
The American Enterprise Institute’s Jessica Trisko Darden, in Youth radicalization is rising, and the international community is unprepared (AEIdeas, June 11, 2018), first reviews the ways children and mothers have been manipulated and used in terrorist...
