Welcome to the Heartland’s podcasts. This week, listen to a 
discussion on how to defend freedom in our personal and economic lives. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: Is the American Educational Research Association is advancing a political agenda over actual social science? The American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess thinks so, and joins the podcast to explain why the nation’s largest professional education research organization should stop playing politics or stop receiving public funds. Read his blog post on Rick Hess Straight Up for the backstory. Listen here.
ON TECHNOLOGY: Detroit record store owner Warren Westfall discusses how he uses the Internet to supplement his bricks-and-mortar retail operation, and how online sales now represent 20 percent of his business. Listen here.
ON ENVIRONMENT: Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo explains why meteorologists are skeptical of alarmist global warming predictions.
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Welcome to the Heartland’s podcasts. This week, listen to a discussion on how to defend freedom in our personal and economic lives. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: The waning days of Virginia’s 2012 legislative session are packed with unfinished education bills, which include far-reaching changes to charter schools, virtual schooling, teacher tenure, and a tax credit for private school tuition. Chris Braunlich, a Virginia board of education member and vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Institute, joins the podcast to outline what’s at stake, how bills have endured the legislative meat grinder, and the politics in play. Listen here.
ON TECHNOLOGY: James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, discusses the recent report that crowd funding site Kickstarter will disburse more money to arts projects this year than the National Endowment for the Arts. Listen here.
ON ENVIRONMENT: Energy economist Donn Dears discusses the economic benefits of natural gas fracking and its outstanding environmental record.
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Welcome to the Heartland’s podcasts. This week, listen to a discussion on how to defend freedom in our personal and economic lives. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: With wickedly funny, deeply poignant prose, Providence College Professor Anthony Esolen‘s new book dissects how current approaches to education and parenting squash children’s imaginations and cheapen childhood. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child discusses forming a child’s mind and heart to wonder at the world around him. “Imaginative children are by nature difficult to herd,” he says. “Schools are built for a certain kind of efficiency and anonymity; they look like factories, and serve many of the same functions.” Esolen both explains why and discusses what to do about it. Listen here.
ON TECHNOLOGY: Author and consultant Larry Downes discusses the spectrum crunch, as well as Federal Communications Commission opposition to legislative efforts to alleviate it by conducting auctions. Listen here.
ON ENVIRONMENT: Emergency medical physician Dr. John Dale Dunn explains how EPA is misrepresenting data regarding lives allegedly saved through regulation.
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Happy 2012 and welcome to the Heartland’s podcasts. This week, listen to a discussion on Obamacare’s interim final rules and regulations. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: The current media and government scrutiny of for-profit higher education’s weaknesses often ignores the potential for these institutions to innovate beyond their current startup stages, says Ben Wildavsky, a senior fellow for the Kauffman Foundation. He has recently released a report of in-depth interviews he held with those leading such firms, outlining their experiences in traditional and for-profit higher education and comparing the two. Listen here.
ON TECHNOLOGY: In this week’s podcast, Randolph J. May, president, The Free State Foundation, discusses his newly published collection of essays, which call for free-market reforms of U.S. communications policy. Listen here.
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Happy 2012 and welcome to the Heartland’s podcasts. This week, listen to a discussion on hydraulic fracturing. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: A Florida vouchers program for disabled students is under fire for instances of fraud and abuse. Special-education lawyer and former teacher Allison Hertog joins the podcast to analyze the John M. McKay scholarships, special education, and abuses of public funds. She notes that Florida has reached the second phase of widespread school-choice reforms: refinement and discovering better accountability mechanisms. Listen here.
ON ENVIRONMENT: Todd Wynn, director of the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council, explains why hydraulic fracturing is a environmentally friendly means of producing natural gas. Listen here.
ON TECHNOLOGY: Two bills looming in Congress aim to curtail copyright infringement but go too far by violating Internet users’ freedom of speech. Parker Higgins, an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, explains why the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act are bad legislation. Listen here.
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The year is near its end, but Heartland’s podcasts keep chugging along. This week, listen to a discussion about the EPA’s ‘facts’ on lives ‘saved’ through emission restrictions, and other interesting conversations on public policy. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: Patricia Siroky’s 12-year-old daughter was failing core classes, acting out to her parents and teachers, and calling herself “stupid” while attending her local public schools. Now, half a year into a small private school she can attend thanks to Indiana’s new school vouchers program, the seventh grader is happier, engaged in after-school activities, upping those grades in her hardest subjects, and once more delighting her parents. Listen Here.
ON ENVIRONMENT: Dr. John Dale Dunn explains how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency distorts the facts on lives allegedly saved through emissions restrictions. Listen Here.
ON TECHNOLOGY: In this weeks Infotech and Telecom News podcast, Matt Howard, CEO of ZoomSafer, discusses safe, legal and handsfree use of mobile phones while driving. Listen Here.
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Good stuff from Heartland’s podcasts this week, including a discussion on Medicare’s quarter-billion dollars spent on penis pumps for elderly men. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: Americans are the most generous givers in the developed world, and research has shown the more a person believes in private enterprise and personal freedom, the more likely that person is to give more of his or her income to charity. Jonathan Butcher, education director at the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, joins the School Reform News podcast to discuss one way individuals and businesses can sponsor a good education for a needy child. Listen here.
ON HEALTH CARE: Ben Domenech discusses Medicare’s quarter-billion dollars spent on penis pumps for elderly men, how this is indicative of larger Medicare fraud, and how lobbyists perpetuate the system. Listen here.
ON ENVIRONMENT: James Taylor discusses global warming and Climategate on The Jason Lewis show. Listen here.
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Good stuff from Heartland’s podcasts this week, including a discussion on the departure of Don Berwick from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: Author and economics professor Bryan Caplan joins the School Reform News Podcast to make The Case Against Education, also the title of his upcoming book. Many educators, particularly college professors, cannot possibly teach students the skills they need for employment, he says, which is a good reason to rethink education subsidies and the push for all students to attend college or even learn the same things. Find Bryan online at EconLog and his personal website. Listen here.
ON HEALTH CARE: Ben Domenech discuss the departure of Don Berwick from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, his controversial views on government controlled healthcare, and how his legacy will be impacted by the fate of Obamacare. Listen here.
ON ENVIRONMENT: James Taylor discusses his Forbes column, Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global Warming Debate on the Cari and Rob Show. Listen here.
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Good stuff from Heartland’s podcasts this week, including a discussion on the SCOTUS hearings on Obamacare. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: A new study employing a more complex comparison concludes that teachers earn one and a half what comparable professionals do, amounting to overcharging taxpayers approximately $120 billion a year. Andrew Biggs, a study coauthor and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins the podcast to discuss his findings and respond to criticism against them from the American Federation of Teachers. Listen here.
ON HEALTH CARE: Benjamin Domenech speaks with Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network on whether Elena Kagan should recuse herself from the SCOTUS hearings on Obamacare. Listen here.
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Good stuff from Heartland’s podcasts this week, including a discussion on Obama’s restructering of the federal student loan program. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
ON EDUCATION: Annie Hsiao of the American Action Forum joins the podcast to analyze and discuss President Obama’s executive order restructuring the federal student loan program. She explains why the president’s actions are likely to lead to higher government and student indebtedness, and explores better alternatives. Listen here.
ON ENVIRONMENT: Angela Logomasini, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, explains the principles of risk management regarding environmental chemicals. Listen here.
ON HEALTH CARE: Benjamin Domenech discusses the entitlement reform plans of each of the Republican candidates. Listen here.
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discussion on how to defend freedom in our personal and economic lives. Click the links below to listen, and subscribe on iTunes so you get the latest podcasts as soon as they are produced. (Search for “Heartland Institute” in the iTunes store.)
