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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, “Ha...

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 ...

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 climat...

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 broi...

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 ...

Our Oil Supply is Virtually Infinite - and Oil is Our Greatest Renewable Resource

Thanks to emerging oil technologies, the era of energy as a tool for political manipulation is over – thus ending an era that commenced w...

Saudi Arabia's NEOM is Breeding a New City Built Around Genetic Engineering

Cities for people or people for cities? An unlikely marriage between city planning and gene modification is reinventing the future city. ...

Drink Like a Major Leaguer: Which Washington Nationals Have the Best Taste in Alcohol?

During the height of the COVID-19 quarantine, the Washington Nationals, their coaches, and a few ex-members got together to celebrate the...

How to Plan Cities in the Age of COVID-19: Part One

By Roger Weber This will be the first part of a series in as many parts as it takes me to sort out some thoughts on how city planning can...

Meet the Major League Baseball Commissioner: Marie Antoinette

As baseball hemorrhages fans amid record profits for the sport, MLB’s senior level central management seem determined to quicken its deat...

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...

Would Abraham Lincoln Support America's Trade War Against China?

Before he led the country across a five-year struggle that freed the slaves and reunited the union, and before he was even elected Presid...

Rob Manfred's Bullying Response to Congress Was an Indefensible Offense to American Small Towns

MLB's bullying response to a Congressional statement defending small communities may be the worst, most callous, and most anti-baseball f...

The Astros Are Penn State

When Penn State fans chant “We Are…”, you might as well fill in the back end of the statement with “the Astros”. Based on this week’s eve...

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