Fordham's Chester Finn will be speaking today at a Hudson Institute event, entitled, The 112th Congress and The New Promise of American Life: Less From Washington, More of Ourselves. The event is going on right now, and you can watch it live, here.
Fifteen years ago, Lamar Alexander, then a former Governor and cabinet secretary preparing a run for the presidency, and Chester Finn, then a Hudson Institute Senior Fellow, published The New Promise of American Life (Hudson Institute Press), which explored how the expansion of the federal government might be reversed. Today's event at the Hudson Institute will take a fresh look at the themes in that volume, ?examine why this vision got derailed post-1995, and how it is even more urgent post-2010.? Sen. Alexander will keynote the event and?Chester will share some thoughts specifically in the area of education.
?Amy Fagan