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Life After Covid-19: Inspirations from Frank Lloyd Wright on the Future of Cities

The three “master builders” of American architecture – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright – each influenced the...

Big Ten Conference 2021 Academic Standings

Here is a ranking of schools in the Big Ten conference, sorted by most recent academic statistics. In parentheses are the average SAT...

Ten Ways Cities Fought Pandemics Before COVID-19

1850 can teach us a lot about coronavirus, and about life. As the US took its first steps toward the Civil War and the formation of its...

Donald Trump Was Wrong About Pete Rose

His other policies aside, Donald Trump was wrong about one thing: his February 8th, 2020 tweet insisting Pete Rose should be a lock for...

Under a Trump-Biden Administration, America can Save the World

One of the best things to happen in the recent history of US foreign policy is the chronological happenstance of two back-to-back...

What is Modern Monetary Theory? Here's a Primer on the Biden Administration's New Progressiv

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is the macroeconomic theory being used to justify the levels of spending that would be required to support...

How Do You Get Into College? This is the One Question Your College Application Must Answer

The following does not constitute advice. But it strikes me that many a college applicant would be better served approaching the college...

If the Ivy League Expanded, Who Would It Add?

Directionally, Harvard has a lot of suitors: Vanderbilt, “Harvard of the South”, Michigan, “Harvard of the West”, even Miami of Ohio,...

To Fix Healthcare, Consider Scrapping the Hippocratic Oath

How would we solve medicine if doctors thought more like economists? Though it has been at the forefront of American political discourse...

Why Most People Drive when They Could Take Transit

One of the most popular terms in planning is “automobile dependence”. The premise asserts that most people in most places in the United...

Finding the Unicorn: The Quest for America's Most Balanced City

What's would make the perfect city? It would be: Culturally rich, with top education institutions, medical centers, Fortune 500...

Poverty is a Thing of the Past, and the Possibilities for Our Future are Infinite

I recently published an article lamenting the fact that prominent elites are now advocating population control as a tool to combat...

The Ohio State Football All-Decade Teams Face Off: 1990s vs. 2000s vs. 2010s

Two National Championships. Ten BCS Bowl games. Three National College Football Playoffs. 14 Big Ten Championships. Three Rose Bowls. A...

Is the Big Ten or the SEC a Better Academic Conference?

In 1835, Ohio and Michigan fought a near-bloodless battle over the boundary between their two states that left one dead and tensions...

Can We Create the Most Entertaining Baseball Team of All Time?

Can we create the most entertaining baseball team of all time? To do this, we'll want to think beyond just dominant on-the-field...

NCAA Power Five Conference Academic Rankings

Here are the most up-to-date rankings of the five NCAA power conferences in median academic standards among the schools. For comparison:...

Journeying Through the Playoffs with the 2019 World Series Champion Washington Nationals

An Investment of the Heart Investing in a sports team as a spectator can be stupid and painful. When you do so, you’re investing your...

Forced Population Control is an Evil Idea that Won't Solve Climate Change

David Attenborough, according to a recent article for the UK’s Telegraph, has given up on society’s potential for good. In it, he argues...

These are the Most Debated Cities in the World

Some people love them, some people hate them. Earlier, we published a consensus set of rankings of the "best" cities in the world, as...

What is the Best City in the World?

We aggregated 22 different sets of rankings of the "best" cities in the world, as measured by a range of criteria - dynamism, livability,...

Our Oil Supply is Virtually Infinite - and Oil is Our Greatest Renewable Resource

Thanks to emerging oil technologies, the era of energy as a tool for political manipulation is over – thus ending an era that commenced...

Saudi Arabia's NEOM is Breeding a New City Built Around Genetic Engineering

Cities for people or people for cities? An unlikely marriage between city planning and gene modification is reinventing the future city....

Drink Like a Major Leaguer: Which Washington Nationals Have the Best Taste in Alcohol?

During the height of the COVID-19 quarantine, the Washington Nationals, their coaches, and a few ex-members got together to celebrate...

How to Plan Cities in the Age of COVID-19: Part One

By Roger Weber This will be the first part of a series in as many parts as it takes me to sort out some thoughts on how city planning can...

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