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To Learn How to Govern, Go Home Again
Andy Smarick
It’s now widely recognized that coverage of the 2016 campaign was skewed because too many national reporters and analysts had little understanding of local communities in wide swaths of America….
Pre-K helps test scores in short run but hurts them later
Media Coverage
From EducationNext:
Andy Smarick has an excellent piece along these lines in the Weekly Standard, suggesting that education policy experts suffer from a Hayekian information problem.
No more top-down education reforms. It’s time for a grassroots revival.
Media Coverage
From The Thomas B. Fordham Insitute:
“Here is something to which every policymaker should aspire: using government authority to encourage non-government authority,” Andy Smarick wrote recently…
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Andy Smarick’s The Moral Ledger discussed on Morning Joe
Media Coverage
From Mediaite:
“When the stakes are low, itemizing and compartmentalizing may be sensible,” wrote Andy Smarick, in the portion that Geist quoted. “But given the enormity of the stakes,…
Remnant episode 51: Millenarians are the worst – shownotes
Media Coverage
Andy Smarick cited in shownotes of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg:
Andy Smarick’s article on the moral ledger of Trumpism.
A one-sided ledger (Gwen Moritz editor’s note)
Media Coverage
From Arkansas Business:
I was moved, then, by Andy Smarick’s thoughtful essay called “The Moral Ledger” published by the conservative — but often Trump-critical — Weekly Standard last…
Does it matter if the President is a liar? (Spoiler: Yes)
Media Coverage
From The Weekley Standard Podcast:
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Andy Smarick joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss his recent magazine piece “The Moral…
The Moral Ledger
Andy Smarick
In recent months, a consensus has emerged among the conservative dissidents of the Trump era: We’ll continue to oppose the president when his policies and practices are counter to our…
Andy Smarick’s Weekly Standard article discussed on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Media Coverage
From MSNBC’s Morning Joe:
Andy Smarick – Morning Joe- AM-2018-07-24 from MediaDC on Vimeo.
Andy Smarick aggregated in RealClearPolicy
Media Coverage
From RealClearPolicy:
A Modest Proposal: Toward a More Humble Government