Cultural Frontiers

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...

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...

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...

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,...

KAEC vs. NEOM: Inside the Development War Between Saudi Arabia's Sibling New Cities

As one of the most conservative countries on earth takes on the 21st century, a pair of government-initiated new cities are among its...

Can Misty Copeland Save American Ballet?

Ballet got more front page news coverage last year than it ever has in decades thanks to an embarrassing controversy involving one of the...

Battle of the Titans of Urban Planning: Andres Duany vs. Rem Koolhaas

In 1999 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the two titans of contemporary urban planning had an epic debate: New Urbanism vs....

America Has the Most Affordable Housing in the World

Housing affordability continues to be one of the chief drivers of economic growth in America, with a lower cost of housing freeing up...

Can You Name Every City in America? Test yourself and be surprised.

With election season looming, the Presidential candidates are canvassing America, trying their best to win the hearts and minds of the...

A New Proposal for American Holidays

Holiday fatigue is real. Moving forward America could benefit from a more considered approach to which holidays we celebrate, and how...

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