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Getting Education Right, Right Now

Getting Education Right, Right Now

By Aaron T. Knapp • on June 11, 2009

Before he voluntarily resigned from the presidency, George Washington described for Thomas Jefferson his vision of a national university.  He wanted a faculty consisting of luminaries of the Scottish Enlightenment, and to offer students the chance to sit in on congressional debates, “thereby becoming more liberally, and better acquainted with

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Envisioning America’s Energy Future

Envisioning America’s Energy Future

By Aaron T. Knapp • on June 1, 2009

Ever since the energy crisis in the 1970s, we have known that our dependence on foreign oil weakens us and impedes our progress as a nation.  By perpetuating an infrastructure and culture that consume tremendous amounts of oil, we have handed immense political leverage to countries that, to be frank,

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