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America's Founders placed great confidence in schools, which they believed would teach young people to understand our political system and to engage in reasoned political debate as adults. Yet today, when virtually all Americans graduate from high school, we remain stunningly ignorant of history and government. In The Cradle of Citizenship, James Traub chronicles his year of observing public schools across the country, talking to teachers, scholars, and curriculum designers.

John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise yet dedicated himself to politics and government. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president at a historic turning point in American politics, and a dedicated congressman who literally died in office - at the age of 80, in the House of Representatives, in the midst of an impassioned political debate.

The Journey Inward is a podcast for men who are ready to begin an exploration of their inner landscape. Rather than discuss what’s going on in the world-at-large, we focus on what’s going on in your world–the world of emotions, feelings, needs, values, goals, and desires. As you’ll discover in these episodes, your experience of the people and the world around you is a reflection of what’s going on inside of you. My goal with this podcast is simply to bring forward new concepts and ideas that will help you to explore, understand, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced inner state,...