COMMENTARIES AND ESSAYS
           BY MITCHELL B. PEARLSTEIN

Education reform could start with students
Mitch Pearlstein | July 11, 2008

Change: Stop Us if You've Heard This Before
Mitch Pearlstein | June 22, 2008

Headlines tell the tale: '08 budget deficit is child's play next to Quie's '80s challenge
Mitch Pearlstein | April 14, 2008

Higher Taxes? Don't Sap Our Strength
Mitch Pearlstein | March 24, 2008

Fireworks in Defense of Freedom
Mitch Pearlstein | February 28, 2008

In Tooth and Claw
Mitch Pearlstein | February 5, 2008

The '80s were hardly an era of open debate on college campuses
Mitch Pearlstein | October 18, 2007

And now: To raise taxes or not?
Mitch Pearlstein | August 19, 2007

Higher taxes aren't answer
Mitch Pearlstein | June 20, 2007

Should Medicare be Means-Tested?
Mitch Pearlstein | June 14, 2007

Coulter's voice provokes the shame it's due
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 9, 2007

More choice will benefit African-American students
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 21, 2007

Test results add up to a good case for vouchers
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 18, 2007

Yet another task for Ellison
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | November 14, 2006

Social programs did harm by making fathers less needed
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 2, 2006

Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Education Summits
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 23, 2006

'Gap' package left out some key factors
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | December 25, 2005

Eibensteiner was the victim in this sorry case
Mitchell B. Pearlstein and Peter Bell | November 27, 2005

He helped expand freedom, learning
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 30, 2005

A Quick History of the Conservative Movement in Minnesota and the Nation:  Further Proof That Books, Magazines, Think Tanks, and Other Ideas Have Consequences
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2005

Health Care at the End of Life: How Realistic and Reverent are Prospects for Cutting Costs?
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 2005

Globalization and the Education of American Workers: Are We Living in a Fool's Paradise?
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 15, 2005

No Need to Mourn the Loss of 'Friends'
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 6, 2004

A Note on the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 12, 2004 

Yecke Should Be Confirmed
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 30, 2004

Best Investment is School Choice
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 4, 2004

 

A Governor Turns 80
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 15, 2003

 

Liberty vs. Security
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 3, 2003

Look around at our nation's progress on race
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 28, 2003

Pawlenty's problem with phones
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 27, 2003

The Value of the Climb
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | June 30, 2003

Sports can help fathers relate to their daughters
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 8, 2003

Moynihan was prescient but pilloried for facing hard facts
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 30, 2003

It's time to resanctify colorblindness as ideal
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 10, 2003

Why do so many turn to goo on issue of Castro and Cuba?
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | October 2, 2002

Seeking to explain, though not to justify
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 11, 2002

Can the University of Minnesota Become Truly "World Class"?
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2002

Education of a governor
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 12, 2002

Peanuts, a pretzel and history's twists
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 23, 2002

School Choice in Minnesota: A Call to Renewed Action
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2001-2002

Society has been welcoming to adopted biracial child
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | November 9, 2001

Recent immigration gains currency as economy baseline
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 6, 2001

Center of American Experiment is conservative but nonpartisan
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 15, 2000

 

Politics Is Good
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 2000

Choice Matters
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 2000

Failing Grade
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | June 2000

Orphanage idea gets better reception
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 24, 2000

Natural Leadership
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 2000

Nothing Plain About These Plains: Minnesota's Motley Story of School Reform
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2000

Dot-Common Sense
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 2000

Perception vs. Reality
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 2000

Lasting Influence
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 2000

School Daze
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | December 1999

Assume Nothing
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | November 1999 

The Real New Deal
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | October 1999

The Leap of Faith
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 1999

Passing Grades
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 1999

Conceal and Carry
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 1999

The Right Way to Love the Planet
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | June 1999

When Smart People Do Dumb Things
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 1999

It Takes A Village
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 1999

Fatherhood and Language
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 1999

Academic Auditors
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 1999

Political Cups of Coffee
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 1999

A "Sensitive Issue"
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 1999

Honoring America's Generosity of Spirit: Religion in Minnesota's Public Square
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 1998-1999

A Question of Mentoring
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | December 1998

Paternalism and the State of Welfare
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | November 1998

Intolerance on the Left
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | October 1998

Wrestling With Government Interference
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 1998

Allergies Raise a Stink for DFL
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 1998

Children Deserve Far Better
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 1998

Apologies
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | June 1998

The Conservative Movement: What Color for its Tent?
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 5, 1998

What the Headlines Don't Reveal
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 1998

A Lesson Better Untaught
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 1998

School Choice in Minnesota: Sudden Possibilities and Overcharged Expectations
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 1998

Whatever Happened to "Thank you"?
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 1998

Don't Dwell on Differences
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 1998

IQ and Economic Success
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 1998

The Bell Curve
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | December 1997

Optimism
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | November 1997

A Good Thing About Politicians
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | October 1997

A Primer on the K-12 Compromise
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 1997

Let's Examine These Exams
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 1997

Tobacco
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 1997

Tattoos
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 1997

School Choice Plans
Mitchell B. Pearlstein and Kristin J. Robins | April 21, 1997

Sobering Suggestions
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 1997

Macy's Window:  Picking U's New President
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 1997

Down with Divorce
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 1997

After Adopting a Biracial Child
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | December 8, 1996

School Choice: Changing the Terms of the Debate
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | December 4, 1996

Happy New Year
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | December 1996

Welfare Reform
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | November 1996

Tolerance
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | October 1996

Art and Cultural Pollution
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 1996

Thinkers Bad Advice
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 1996

Discussion on Race
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | June 1996

A Widening Income Gap? Hardly.
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 1996

Vouchers, Flat Tax, and Emotional Language
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 1996

School Choice and Rhetorical Excess
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | February 15, 1996

Ike/Heartland
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 23, 1995

Newtonian Reactions
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | November 21, 1994

Political Poetry
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | October 10, 1994

1994 Minnesota Primary Elections
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | September 19, 1994

School Desegregation
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 18, 1994

Fourth of July
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 4, 1994

Crime
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | April 7, 1994

Talking About Out-of-Wedlock Births and Single Parenthood: Can it be Done Frankly Without Offending
Peter Bell, Sandra S. Gardebring, and Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 1992