Architect of the World

For College Admissions, Bring Back the SAT and ACT

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

Do Any Big Cities Vote Politically Conservative?

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

How do you Purchase a Minor League Baseball Franchise? 13 Secrets About Ownership

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...

The Post-Covid Return to a “Work from Work” Economy Misses a Massive Opportunity

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

Honoring Shin-Soo Choo: Derek Jeter of the "Common Man"

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...

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...

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