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Joy Pullmann: The Parent Trigger

SRN PODCAST: In this "Best of" Heartland podcast, Jim Lakely and Joy Pullmann discuss the new policy brief released by the Heartland Institute, titled "The Parent Trigger: Justification and Design Guidelines."

Ben VanMetre: Little Reality Behind Governor's Rhetoric

BTN PODCAST: Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has delivered his proposed budget for the next fiscal year. With budgets like these, it's easy to understand why Illinois has the nation's worst unfunded pension liability, backlog of unpaid bills, and credit rating. Ben VanMetre of the Illinois Policy Institute explains.

Greg Lukianoff: Pushing Political Correctness on Teachers and the Next Generation

SRN PODCAST: A new book explains how U.S. education's commitment to political correctness destroys free speech and its protection of our constitutional democracy. Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and author of Unlearning Liberty, joins the podcast to talk about how higher education, and especially teachers colleges, stifle thought and discussion and promote leftist groupthink, which in turn pushes progressive ideas onto the next generation. You can also read a review of the book, which discusses its implications for K-12 public schools and teachers there, in Defining Ideas.

Benjamin Domenech: Talking Obamacare on TheBlaze TV

HCN PODCAST: On Real News from The Blaze, Heartland Institute Research Fellow Benjamin Domenech explains the latest Congressional Budget Office report on the fiscal ramifications of Obamacare. He also reacts to the news that Gov. John Kasich of Ohio wants to implement the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.

Rose Berman: A Gifted Student on Academic Challenge, Integration, and Service

SRN PODCAST: It's easy to caterwaul about the problems in U.S. education, but many young people still manage to fall in love with learning at a young age. Joining the School Reform News podcast to talk about her intellectual cultivation and desire to use it to serve others is Rose Berman, a sophomore at the University of Chicago and one of six 2013 winners of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize for the best high school history papers in the world.

James Huffman: The Disenfranchisement of Rural America

FIRE PODCAST: Law Professor James Huffman says small pockets of densely populated urban areas are imposing their will on large swaths of the country, disenfranchising small towns and rural areas politically and harming them economically.
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