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John Burtka Wants to Train Statesmen

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Guests: John J. Miller, John A. Burtka IV, & Andrew Russell

This week, host Scot Bertram talks with:

John J. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College and author of Reading Around, talks about proposals around the country to institute taxpayer-funded “news voucher” systems to support local news reporting.

John Burtka, president and chief executive officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, describes the lost art of training statesmen and discusses his new edited collection of historical essays on statesmanship, Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill.

And Andrew Russell, associate professor of biology at Hillsdale College, continues a conversation on biofilms and his work on the applications of the compound zingerone.

Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchil
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