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There is enough evidence already on the table to show that Joe Biden lied when he told the American people he knew nothing about his son Hunter's overseas business dealings.

He was obviously intimately involved in them because he was meeting the business partners and talking to them on the phone and etc.

This is your host, Scott Bertram, and that's Miranda Devine, columnist at the New York Post, Fox News contributor and author of the bestseller Laptop from Hell.

We'll talk with Miranda later on in today's program to get an update on that laptop from hell.

First, we're joined by Matt Meen.

He is Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Government at the Hillsdale College Graduate School of Government in D.C.

Dr. Behan, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me, Scott.

Discussing a piece written recently over at Real Clear Education, it's a long title,

More Schools Playing the Parental Role, but not for the Good of Students.

And this is something that I think people have noticed, especially in the past couple of years,

especially post-COVID.

What do you think was that trigger for schools, though, to begin to think that they know

what's absolutely best for children,

the foolish parents who lack our expertise sort of point of view.

I think it's a kind of perfect storm, and COVID wound up being a kind of cherry on top

or the final catalyst of intensification and then reactive horror from parents.

But, I mean, you can take this all the way back to the progressives in education.

Dewey, he describes, just reading it recently again, he describes the school as an organ of the state, right?

Which is basically flipping the whole idea of the school as something that helps serve parents and the education of their children.

Now the school is a representative agent of the state who's basically sort of taking the child from the family.

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