The Instapundit Glenn and Helen Show podcasts always hit a good note for me – the friendly and open-minded co-hosts letting interesting guests talk at some length about their ideas, many of which go way beyond the sort of thing we are used to hearing in Europe.

Here is a full list. Subscribe to them on i-Tunes and listen to them on a long boring journey somewhere.

Interviews which struck me as especially interesting were those with Robert Kagan (on global trends) and Amory Lovins on how much more can be done to save energy.

But try this one first. Self-made millionaire Troy Dunn describes how each of his seven young children are expected to be good at turning good ideas into making money, an object-lesson in fostering an entrepreneurial spirit and self-reliance.

Not for everyone, of course. But a very different view of what ‘education’ today is all about…