Center of the American Experiment

Mission Statement

Recent Voices and Upcoming Events

Center of the American Experiment is a nonpartisan, tax-exempt, public policy and educational institution that brings conservative and free market ideas to bear on the hardest problems facing Minnesota and the nation.

Recent Commentaries

● Headlines tell the tale: '08 budget deficit is child's play next to Quie's '80s challenge
Mitch Pearlstein | April 14, 2008
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Government has health-care answers -- but not a solution
Peter Nelson
● Evangelical New Urbanism
Marvin Olasky
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Climate-Change Policies Come With a Price Tag
Margo Thorning
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Higher Taxes? Don't Sap Our Strength
Mitch Pearlstein
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Fireworks in Defense of Freedom
Mitch Pearlstein
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In Tooth and Claw
Mitch Pearlstein

New Studies and Essays

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What to Expect from Uniform Pricing of Health Care Services
Peter J. Nelson
● Appraising a Health Insurance Exchange for Minnesota
Peter J. Nelson
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Searching for Climate Change: A More Temperate Take on Global Warming
John R. Christy
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What Does It Mean to be an Urban Conservative? A Symposium
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A Primer on How Employment-Based Health Benefits (and the Tax Code) Distort the Health Care Market
Peter J. Nelson
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Achievement Gaps: What Will It Take to Close Them?
Paul E. Peterson

Upcoming Events

2008 Annual Dinner with John Bolton
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Recent Event Audio

Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik
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Chester E. Finn, Jr., March 27, 2008

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: What are the Real Economic Costs?
(Download MP3)
Margo Thorning, March 6, 2008

Can Politicians Hold to Principle Without Brutalizing Each Other?
(Download MP3)
Roger Moe & Steve Sviggum
February 13, 2008

Is America An Experiment?
(Download MP3)
Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee
January 17, 2008

Audio Archive

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