To back up this worldview is a network of self-styled thinktanks, with opaque funding sources and a passionate commitment to classical liberal economics.
Schnur, who runs a Manhattan-based school-reform group called New Leaders for New Schools, sits informally at the center of a network of self-styled reformers dedicated to overhauling public education in the United States.
Some of America's largest technology and telecoms companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and AT&T, are backing a network of self-styled "free-market thinktanks" promoting a radical rightwing agenda in states across the nation, according to a new report by a lobbying watchdog.
The two US investors are namely North Base Media, a collective led by former journalists, and Omidyar Network, a self-styled philanthropic investment firm set up by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay.
But the term is now more commonly linked with the self-styled terrorist network Islamic State, which is also known by the name ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
Another buzzword, this time brought on by Internet-styled networks making it hard to tell where data storage ends, and data computing begins.
On Thursday, Trump ordered the dropping of America's biggest non-nuclear bomb (dubbed "the mother of all bombs") in Afghanistan to combat the self-styled Islamic State terror network.
He chose to target the networks of a renowned security expert, who styled himself a "Good Samaritan hacker" - as well as a quintessential long-haired, west-coast surf dude - named Tsutomu Shimomura.
No, the self-styled villain, banned from the most chauvinist network on television, is actually telling people how to live, and, chillingly, others seem to be listening.
This is a joint initiative between Balliol Knowledge Networks and the Harvard Club of the United Kingdom and is styled the Two Johns initiative (after the Founders of each place, John Harvard and John de Balliol).
