How Did Florence Grow? 9 Lessons for New and Existing Cities
By Roger Weber Headquarters of the Renaissance, Florence, Italy is one of the most important and misunderstood cities ever built. While...
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What are the biggest challenges for NEOM, the Saudi Arabian Megacity?
We’ve written about the vision for NEOM multiple times on Capital Frontiers. NEOM is the massive new city project Saudi Arabia launched...
Eight Things I've Learned from Elon Musk
Elon Musk has floated into the driver’s seat of the world: From Payapl CEO to bankrupt entrepreneur, from laughingstock to curiosity,...
The Cleveland Indians/Guardians botched their name change
When the ownership of the Cleveland Indians decided to change the team’s name a few years ago, the opportunity presented them a...
The National Debt is on Pace to Destroy the Federal Budget
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...
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...
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...
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...
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