9.7.10 – Michael F. Shaughnessy – I have long been fascinated with how history is told to us and how the common familiars of our past are often not as we have been taught. In my previous book, Napoleon's Hemorrhoids, I wanted to show how the way we are led to assume history unfolds

9.5.10 – Michael F. Shaughnessy – There were several contributory factors but the main impetus for writing it was to inform other adults – particularly other educators and parents – about a number of outstanding breakthroughs within the domains of human psychological development and effective pedagogic practice of which I had just become aware myself.

8.21.10 – Bissonnette is 22 now, a senior at the University of Massachusetts. He has written the best and most troubling book ever about the college admissions process, "Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents."

8.20.10 – ‘Higher Education?’ By ANDREW HACKER and CLAUDIA DREIFUS – Two academics pose questions about the degree to which universities’ main purpose — for them, the teaching of undergraduates — is being undermined.

8.18.10 – Peter Cohee reviews Diane Ravitch's book, a partial volte-face, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

8.16.10 – Kenneth J. Bernstein – It was not composed as one book, since much of the material is reworked from things Merrow previously did. That means there is some repetition, chapters of varying length and effectiveness. In general that adds to the value of the book.

BOSTON (August, 2010) — Islam’s crescent moon and Hamas’ crossed swords aren’t the only key symbols in the ongoing saga of Mid-East violence; the Nazi swastika belongs there too, says the author of a modern classic due for widespread rerelease Sept. 1.

8.3.10 – Michael F. Shaughnessy – The reason I wrote this book was that I have seen parents with their child who has been diagnosed with cancer. The child will, unfortunately, be exposed to the process of cancer diagnosis, evaluation and treatment, which is quite scary for both the child and parents to experience.

8.2.10 – Forty years ago, historian Ralph Raico completed his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the University of Chicago. Its title masks its power and importance: The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton.

7.31.10 – Forty years ago, historian Ralph Raico completed his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the University of Chicago. Its title masks its power and importance: The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton. It has been published for the first time by the Mises Institute, and this is not merely to honor a great historian and thinker.

My encounter with John Dewey (America’s most famous educator) began in the trenches of the reading wars. There the big question is: why did our educators discredit phonics, which works, and promote another approach, called whole word, which doesn’t work? Why, indeed? Yes, they’re connected–this terrible trio of American culture–all connected. Permit me to be your guide to the dark side:

7.30.10 – The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners' standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption directed by the most energetic and far-sighted individuals, unflaggingly aiming at improvement.

7.27.10 – Sixty-five years ago today, a remarkable memorial service was held in one of London's great churches in honor of a then obscure German pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

7.22.10 – Michael F. Shaughnessy – Every once in a while a good book comes along that tells a story, while at the same time offering some insight into sociological issues. Don Armijo and Fred Stawitz have co-authored a book, published by Publish America out of Baltimore.

7.22.10 – Michael F. Shaughnessy – It is extremely important. Creativity leads to inventions, innovation, and clearer and more critical thinking. In sum, to a better society. To fall behind in those areas is tragic. Yet, I recently read a Newsweek article that said the U.S. is falling behind in creativity.

7.22.10 – Michael F. Shaughnessy – Philippe and I share the commitment to educating youth about how they can take action regarding protecting and caring for our environment. Our planet depends on this.

WASHINGTON – They are the voiceless victims whose horror in many ways mirrors what children in concentration-camp "experiments" suffered during the Holocaust. But the mastermind behind such horrid crimes of sexual abuse and rape of children – some as young as 6 months old – touts a legacy that's lauded, lionized, bankrolled and celebrated in literature, science, industry and the arts.

The first one is that socialism is a great idea. In Socialism, Mises contends that even if you were to give the socialists their fully-incentivized New Socialist Man, who would happily take out the garbage in Sunderland while his identical twin brother gets to be appointed by the central state planning committee as a leading Hollywood actor, socialism is actually a terrible idea because it makes economic calculation impossible.