Pete Hegseth is the co-host of FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND and also frequently guest hosts for FOX & FRIENDS during the week. He is also a FOX NEWS Senior Political Analyst, providing analysis and commentary across all FOX NEWS and FOX BUSINESS programming. Hegseth has deployed three times since 9/11, most recently returning from Afghanistan where he was the senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul from 2011-2012. Hegseth previously served as the Chief Executive Officer for Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) from 2012-2015, the largest conservative veterans and military family's organization in America. Prior to joining CVA, P.H. was Executive Director for Vets for Freedom from 2007-2011, an organization committed to victory on the battlefield. Hegseth graduated from Princeton University as an Undergrad and completed a Master's in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2013. Hegseth has four young children.
"""Pete Hegseth brilliantly spotlights one of the most important issues facing our country: America's children and their education. By exposing the undercurrents of wayward indoctrination in American education and reorienting the reader toward classical Christian education, he provides a solution to the feeling of hopelessness so many parents experience. Pete unrolls a road map to saving America's children and providing our little ones a path to prosperity, success, and well-being."" -- Kayleigh McEnany ""Forget what you thought you knew about education in America--this book will rock your consciousness. Battle for the American Mind exposes the insidious and hidden Marxist takeover of America's classrooms, and arms every citizen, parent, and grandparent with a plan to fight back. For the sake of our Republic, read Pete Hegseth's book."" -- Mark Levin ""Pete Hegseth, along with David Goodwin, argues that a return to classical education alone cannot save American students from a century of ideological pollution and dumbing down of both K-12 and higher education. Instead, they envision ""Christian paideia"" reuniting Jerusalem with Athens and Rome, thereby restoring rational, empirical training that enhances faith and spirituality. Battle for the American Mind is cogent, occasionally polemical, and always engaging. Let us hope its passionate case for restoring morality and sanity helps to spark an American educational renaissance."" -- Victor Davis Hanson ""It is time to rethink the importance of education and bring it back under the Lordship of Christ. Much of the compromise we see in the church can be traced to how we educate our children. This work pulls back the veil to reveal the sinister agenda of progressive education and prescribes a little-known antidote that will, with the grace of our Lord, have a real impact on the future of our kids."" -- John MacArthur ""Pete Hegseth is a patriot, and as such he is unwilling to abandon the educational system to the predations of the militant Left. In Battle for the American Mind, Hegseth lays out the state of play: how far gone our educational system is and what we can do to take it back."" -- Ben Shapiro ""If you want your civilization to continue, few things matter more than what your children learn in school. Our kids are learning to hate the society our ancestors built. Pete Hegseth has seen it, and in this book, he's got a solution."" -- Tucker Carlson ""Pete is a phenomenal patriot and this book is a must-read. The education fight is the most critical in America."" -- Charlie Kirk ""Liberals have been using the education system as an indoctrination assembly line for decades. This book is an eye-opener and a must-read for any parent concerned about their children's future."" -- Dan Bongino"