When the ownership of the Cleveland Indians decided to change the team’s name a few years ago, the opportunity presented them a...

Here is a breakdown of how we spend the Federal Budget ($4.5 trillion circa 2020). This budget amounts to around 21.6% of our national...

Many things can be done to address the unequal quality of education in the United States. Most proposed solutions address the quality of...

Another year of college admissions, and yet more colleges have dropped the SAT and ACT from their criteria for admissions. I’d argue they...

Although cities notoriously lean left in America, with Republican voter concentrations predominating in more rural and suburban locales,...

When I was a kid one of my biggest dreams was to someday own and operate my own professional baseball team. Combining my love of sports...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, after a few months of a surprisingly seamless work from home experience, businesses across America raced...

Perhaps no better player captures the indignities of our world than the long baseball career of Shin-Soo Choo. While he is but one of...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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? To do this, we'll want to think beyond just dominant on-the-field...

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