For whatever reason, there's nothing that gets Americans excited about doing better at something than framing it as beating the competition. So, if you want edu

For whatever reason, there's nothing that gets Americans excited about doing better at something than framing it as beating the competition. So, if you want education to improve, the best way to do that is to say we need to do it better than country X. American education is, in my experience, pretty subpar, and it's good to try to improve it somehow. The article couldn't hold my attention long enough, though, for me to bother reading the exact how. Rinse and repeat for military spending, exports, increasing energy production, decreasing energy consumption, etc.