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John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, discusses healthcare access with Ernie Brown on America's Radio Network.
This presentation is from our 2012 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar for college students, which was held from July 30 to August 3, 2012, at Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California.
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Research Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, discusses his very timely and compelling new book on C-SPAN2’s Book TV.
Filmed before a live audience on April 18, 2002, renowned author Gore Vidal rejects the blind “patriotism” expected by government officials and the mainstream media, and investigates U.S. foreign policy throughout recent history, showing how it has contributed to the terrorist crisis. With his famous wit and insight, Vidal also demonstrates the ways in which the “War on Terrorism” is being used to curtail civil liberties and shred the Bill of Rights.
Research Fellow Art Carden on Stossel to discuss the topic “What you think you know...may not be so.”
This presentation is from our 2012 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar for high school students, which was held from June 18 to 22, 2012, at the Independent Institute Conference Center, Oakland, California.
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American children learn less than they did 30 years ago, and even where there are signs of improvement, they are small. Many high school graduates—90 percent of whom attended government-operated public schools—lack the skills needed in today’s knowledge-intensive workplace. Parents and educators have long recognized the shortcomings of the public school system, but their efforts to reform it have failed. Are school vouchers and charter schools the answer? What about teacher-owned schools? What other reforms might make schools more innovative and accountable to parents? Education experts Richard Vedder and John Merrifield examined new strategies for achieving educational excellence.
