To Fix Education, Repeal the Minimum Wage
Many things can be done to address the unequal quality of education in the United States. Most proposed solutions address the quality of...
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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...
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:...
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,...
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