{"id":2189,"date":"2007-04-08T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2007-04-08T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T14:54:00","slug":"2189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A variety of subjects on this holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Top Billing!:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/americanfuture.net\/\">Marc Schulman<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a title=\"Permanent Link to Orwell, the Left, and 9\/11\" href=\"http:\/\/americanfuture.net\/?p=2662\" rel=\"bookmark\" snap_icon_added=\"spa\" icon_trigger=\"false\" text_trigger=\"true\" parent_link_icon=\"false\" snap_preview_added=\"spa\">Orwell, the Left, and 9\/11<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>A substantial and well researched essay by Marc and, for me, a timely one as I had my students begin reading Orwell late last week. Marc has also, incidently, given <a href=\"http:\/\/americanfuture.net\/\"><strong>American Future<\/strong> <\/a>a facelift. Looks sharp !<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/\"><strong>Dr. Thomas P. M. Barnett<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/qa.html\"><strong>Q&#038;A<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Tom gives a reader insight into his strategic thinking process; and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/vol_iii_subtitle.html\">another post<\/a>, gives further indication of the direction of Book III.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Thomas C. Reeves<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/37082.html\">Teaching the Many Instead of the Few<\/a>&#8221; and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/whirledview.typepad.com\/whirledview\/\">PHK<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/whirledview.typepad.com\/whirledview\/2007\/04\/missing_in_acti.html\" target=\"_blank\">Missing in Action: Geography, World History and Foreign Languages<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The state of American education is fodder for no shortage of good posts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com\/\">Newshog<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/analytical-assumptions-for-iraq-part-1.html\">Analytical Assumptions for Iraq Part I<\/a>., <a href=\"http:\/\/cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/analytical-assumptions-for-iraq-part-2.html\">Part II<\/a>. and <a href=\"http:\/\/cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/analytical-assumptions-for-iraq-part-3.html\">Part III<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While I would quibble with the Newshogs at many points, overall a thought-provoking foreign policy series. Hat tip to<strong> Dave<\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglitteringeye.com\/\">The Glittering Eye<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEED<\/strong> &#8211; &#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2007\/04\/transscience_railway.php\">The Trans-Science Railway<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Chinese initiative sets out to train 1.3 billion scientists&#8211;one farmer at a time&#8221;. China is junking hoary Communist  ideology in public education in favor of science. The Chinese only really need to succeed in inculcating scientific literacy with a tiny fraction of their rural population to ultimately increase the number of scientists on a global scale by several orders of magnitude. In 2030 there will be PhD&#8217;s running around born in the hinterland villages of Shaanxi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECOMMENDED READING A variety of subjects on this holiday weekend. 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