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ConstitutionEconomicsFeaturedGovernmentPodcastPolitics
Ill Literacy, Episode XVIII: Men on Horseback (Guest: David A. Bell)
by Jim Lakely November 11, 2020Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Dr. David A. Bell of Princeton University to discuss his new book, Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution
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ConstitutionEconomicsFeaturedGovernmentPodcastPolitics
Ill Literacy, Episode XVII: JFK (Guest: Fredrik Logevall)
by Jim Lakely November 3, 2020Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Dr. Fredrik Logevall of Harvard University to discuss his new book, “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956.”
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ConstitutionFeaturedLibertyMediaPodcastPolitics
Ill Literacy, Episode XI: How Innovation Works (Guest: Matt Ridley)
by Jim Lakely October 2, 2020The Heartland Daily Podcast · Ill Literacy, Episode XI: How Innovation Works (Guest: Matt Ridley) The Heartland Institute’s Tim Benson is joined by Matt Ridley to discuss his book, How…
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ConstitutionGovernmentLibertyPodcastSpeaker Series
Ill Literacy, Episode VIII: Originalism’s Promise (Guest: Lee J. Strang)
by Jim Lakely September 1, 2020Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Lee J. Strang Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Lee J. Strang to discuss his book, Originalism’s Promise: A Natural Law Account of the American Constitution
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ConstitutionEconomicsFeaturedLibertyMediaPodcastSpeaker Series
Ill Literacy Episode V: The 1619 Project: A Critique (Guest: Dr. Phillip W. Magness)
by Jim Lakely August 19, 2020Dr. Phillip W. Magness describes what the 1619 Project gets grievously wrong about slavery, economics, and the motivations of the Founding Fathers.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcastPolitics
New Heartland Podcast: Ill Literacy – Books with Benson (False Alarm with Author Bjorn Lomborg)
by Jim Lakely August 4, 2020Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Dr. Bjørn Lomborg to discuss his book, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet.
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Podcast
New Heartland Podcast: Ill Literacy – Books with Benson (Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea)
by Jim Lakely July 30, 2020In the second episode of the Ill Literacy Podcast, The Heartland Institute’s Tim Benson is joined by Dr. Bradley C.S. Watson to discuss his book Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea.
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EducationFeaturedPodcast
New Heartland Podcast: Ill Literacy – Books with Benson (Talking Howard Zinn with Author Mary Grabar)
by Jim Lakely July 14, 2020In the inaugural episode of Ill Literacy: Books with Benson, Heartland’s Tim Benson talks with Dr. Mary Grabar about her book Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America.
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The Network for Public Education (NPE), an anti-educational choice organization, released a new publication titled “Valuing Public Education: A 50 State Report Card,” which, distressingly, many media outlets are reporting as an honest-to-goodness objective study, instead of the piece of subjective advocacy it truly is.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Obama’s EPA to Ohio’s Anti-Frackers: You’re Wrong
by Timothy Benson February 4, 2016Two recent reports on Ohio’s wastewater injection well program discredit chronic allegations by opponents of hydraulic fracturing. These include claims that the creation of such wells leads directly to earthquakes, and that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has neglected to establish proper regulations to keep Ohioans safe.
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EducationFeatured
Thanks to Teacher’s Union, Chicago Public Schools are a Perpetual-Motion Machine of Mediocrity
by Timothy Benson January 19, 2016The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has voted overwhelmingly to go on strike during the 2016 spring semester, with a walk-out tentatively scheduled for late March. This would be the second teachers strike in the Windy City over the past four years and would serve as a glaring reminder shame has been fully expunged from civil society.
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EducationFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Jarratt & Benson: Corruption in Chicago Public School System
by Donald Kendal January 6, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Project Manager for Education Lennie Jarratt and Policy Analyst Tim Benson join Host Donald Kendal to discuss the recently released report by the Inspector General of the Chicago Board of Education. The report showed a disturbing pattern of corruption throughout the system.