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.

 

When Will Americans and Minnesotans Get Serious about the Impending Entitlement Crisis? 
A Symposium


Chuck Chalberg, Laurence D. Cooper, Tom Kelly, Peter J. Nelson

Moderated by Mitch Pearlstein

Recent Commentaries & Reports

Where battle line is drawn on health care
Peter Nelson
  
Minnesota Senate begins to recognize the need for affordable energy
Peter Nelson
  
Testimony on Behalf of the Healthy Minnesota Plan
Peter Nelson
  
Alternative teacher certification: A research note
Mitch Pearlstein
  
 Nobel laureates and Minnesota taxes
Mitch Pearlstein
  
Preparing for an Even More Demanding Future: American Experiment's 2010-11 Budget Recommendations
Peter J. Nelson
  
 Hennepin Avenue and Braying Bloggers
Mitch Pearlstein
  
 Hennepin Avenue: One mean street
Mitch Pearlstein

 

Upcoming Events

  
 Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education
Terry M. Moe & John E. Chubb

July 22, 2009

  

Recent Event Audio

 THE DIRTY DOZEN: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
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Robert A. Levy
March 12, 2009
  
 MOBILITY FIRST: A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive Twenty-First Century
(Download MP3)
Sam Staley
January 21, 2009
  
 If I Were Writing John McCain's Acceptance Speech Thursday Night ... or Rewriting Barack Obama's Last Week
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David Frum & John Hinderaker
September 2, 2008

 

RIDING INTO THE SUNRISE
Al Quie, A Life of Faith, Service & Civility
 

by Mitch Pearlstein

Forewords by
Charles Colson and Roger D.
 Moe 

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