Education

Brett Venoitte explains how Horace Mann drew from authoritarian Prussian in designing public education in the US. 

Presented at Mises University 2020.

Presented at Mises University 2020.

Rothbard fans, this is the podcast you don't want to miss! Patrick Newman joins Jeff Deist to kick off a series of shows featuring Rothbard's landmark treatise Man, Economy, and State. 

Unprofitable Schooling is the go-to book for anyone who wants to understand, in depth, the debates raging about why, and even whether, the academy is in such a sorry state.

Jeffrey Degner reviews Caitlin Zaloom's Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost and finds that while the anthropological approach led to interesting anecdotes, Zaloom's economics fall short.

For many parents, the ongoing closure of public schools will just reinforce growing suspicions that public schools just aren't worth it anymore. Maybe they never were.

Panic over the COVID-19 virus has led to the closure of many schools and new forays into education outside the government school system. Many will find that they don't need the state's schools at all.

For many parents, the ongoing closure of public schools will just reinforce growing suspicions that public schools just aren't worth it anymore. Maybe they never were.