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.

Feature Publications
 

LIBERATING LEARNING: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education

Terry M. Moe & John E. Chubb

  

 

What Would It Take for You to Start or Expand a Business in a Low-Income Neighborhood?
A Symposium

John S. Adams, Michele Bachmann, Andy Brehm, Barry Casselman, John C. “Chuck” Chalberg, Larry Colson, Sue Wollan Fan, Bill Green, Jake Haulk, Barbara A. Johnson, Dan McElroy, Alberto Monserrate, Peter Nelson, Grover Norquist, Vance K. Opperman, Andrew Parker, Sam Staley, John Tillman, Jim Van Houten, Lou Wangberg

Introduction by Mitch Pearlstein

  
 

THINKING MINNESOTA
A Quarterly Update from Center of the American Experiment
Fall 2009

Stay informed on the important public policy issues of the day and what CAE is doing about them through our new quarterly update.

  

 

NO LONGER A NATIONAL MODEL
Fifteen Recommendations for Fixing Minnesota Election Law and Practice


Kent Kaiser

The recount that followed the 2008 U.S. Senate election in Minnesota brought to light several weaknesses in the state’s election systems.

Recent Commentaries & Reports

New Budget Tools for a Balanced Minnesota
Peter Nelson

  
'Up north' isn't there just for your pleasure
Kent Kaiser
  
"DEVELOPMENTAL" WRITING CLASSES: Wide - Not "Rich" - Diversity
Jack Miller
  
Save GAMC -- by Raising It above Lesser Priorities
Peter Nelson
  
Wow, someone's cranky this Christmas 
Mitch Pearlstein
  
Profoundly Tone Deaf and Wrong
Mitch Pearlstein
  
Absentee voters deserve more time
Kent Kaiser
  
 

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

 
  

No Consensus on Health Insurance Exchanges
Congress Should Rely on States and Consider
Health Insurance Premium Accounts

Peter Nelson

  
 

Culture, Compassion, and Conservatism
Mitch Pearlstein

  
  ● THE DIRTY DOZEN: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government adn Eroded Freedom
Robert A. Levy
  
 ●Schools talk: Ugly windup, fine delivery
Mitch Pearlstein 
  
  ●The Mayo Clinic: High Quality Yes, But Low Cost?
Peter Nelson
  
 

Taxpayers should view reform's spending projections with a healthy distrust
Mitch Pearlstein
 

  
 America is well served by Mayo Clinic's thoughtful health-reform critique
Peter Nelson
  
 ●Judge Sotomayor & Race-Conscious Policies
Mitch Pearlstein
  
 ●American Experiment Health Reform Resources
  
 Unallotment?  Entitlements!
Mitch Pearlstein
  

Where battle line is drawn on health care
Peter Nelson

 

Upcoming Events

Second Annual Celebration of John Brandl with Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
February 18, 2010
  
2010 Annual Dinner with
Brit Hume
May 5, 2010
 

Recent Event Audio
 THE AGE OF REAGAN
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Steven F. Hayward
December 8, 2009
  
LITTLE PINK HOUSE: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
(Download MP3)
Jeff Benedict & Scott Bullock
September 22, 2009
 
  
LIBERATING LEARNING: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education
(Download MP3)
Terry M. Moe & John E. Chubb
July 22, 2009

 

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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