STUDIES & ESSAYS                       

How Can We Better Encourage and Reinforce the Most Entrepreneurial and Talented Among Us?
A Symposium
Mitch Pearlstein | August 2010

John S. Adams, Barry Casselman, Larry Colson, Kim Crockett, Devin Foley, Arvonne Fraser, Paul J.Gessing, Jake Haulk, John Kline, Ashley Landess, Dan McElroy, Peter Nelson, Grover Norquist, Robert Osburn, Donald P. Racheter, Deborah L. Ruf, Lyall A. Schwarzkopf, Steve Shipley, David J. Theroux, Grace-Marie Turner, Sandy Vargas, Lou Wangberg

Age of Reagan
Steven F. Hayward | July 2010

WHAT WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT CUTTING BUDGETS
Rudy Boschwitz, John Gunyou, Peggy Ingison, Jay Kiedrowski and Tim Penny | May 2010
Moderated by Mitch Pearlstein

HOW CAPITALISM WILL SAVE US: Why Free People and Free Markets are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes | April 2010

Alternative Teacher Certification
Mitch Pearlstein | March 17, 2010

"DEVELOPMENTAL" WRITING CLASSES: Wide - Not "Rich" - Diversity
Jack Miller | January 2010

LIBERATING LEARNING: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education
Terry M. Moe & John E. Chubb | January 2010

What Would It Take for You to Start or Expand a Business in a Low-Income Neighborhood? A Symposium
Introduction by Mitch Pearlstein | December 2009

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

No Consensus on Health Insurance Exchanges: Congress Should Rely on States and Consider Health Insurance Premium Accounts
Peter Nelson | October 1, 2009

The Mayo Clinic: High Quality Yes, But Low Cost?
Peter Nelson | September 8, 2009

Culture, Compassion, and Conservatism
Mitch Pearlstein | July 2009

When Will Americans and Minnesotans Get Serious about the Impending Entitlement Crisis? A Symposium
Moderated by Mitch Pearlstein | June 2009
Chuck Chalberg, Laurence D. Cooper, Tom Kelly, Peter J. Nelson

Alternative teacher certification: A research note
Mitch Pearlstein | May 1, 2009

How Can Conservatism Better Allay the Economic Fears of Working-Class and Middle-Class Americans? A Symposium
Introduction by Mitchell B. Pearlstein | March 2009

John S. Adams, Paul D. Allick, William A. Blazar, Barry Casselman, Chuck Chalberg, Larry Colson, Roger Conant, Kevin Donnelly, Devin Foley, Arvonne Fraser, Paul Gessing, John C. Goodman, Jake Haulk, Mike Jungbauer, Phyllis Kahn, Greg Kaza, Tom Kelly, Eric L. Lipman, Jefferson Morley, Peter J. Nelson, Grover G. Norquist, Bruce Peterson, Todd Peterson, Bill Pulkrabek, Larry Purdy, Don Racheter, Kristin J. Robbins, Lyall Schwarzkopf, Brett Singer, Grace-Marie Turner and Amy Menefee, Lou Wangberg, Cheri Pierson Yecke, Stephen B. Young

Assessing the Politics of Future CO2 Regulations
Peter J. Nelson | February 3, 2009

LINCOLN'S POLITICAL FAITH: Does It Still Have a Place in Presidentail Leadership?
Joseph R. Fornieri | October 2008

A Conversation about Canadian and American Health Care with Lee Kurisko, M.D.
Interviewed by Peter J. Nelson | October 2008

Why are American Jews so Liberal?
Prof. Laurence D. Cooper | October 2008

LEARNING FROM LINCOLN: Principle and Pragmatism
Getting the Balance Right  A Symposium
Introduction by Mitchell B. Pearlstein | August 2008

David Allen, Paul D. Allick, Greg Blankenship, Fran Bradley, Barry Casselman, Larry Colson, Kevin Donnelly, Jim Dueholm, Amitai Etzioni, Joseph R. Fornieri, Paul Gessing, John Gibbs, Jay P. Greene, John Gunyou, Jake Haulk, Matthew Heffron, Eric Lipman, Randolph J. May, James H. Miller, Grover Norquist, Tom Prichard, Donald P. Racheter, Lawrence W. Reed, Dane Smith, David Tuerck, Lou Wangberg, Craig Westover, Cheri Pierson Yecke, Stephen B. Young

Medical Home Policy Recommendations
Peter J. Nelson | May 8, 2008

What to Expect from Uniform Pricing of Health Care Services
Peter J. Nelson | April 23, 2008 

Appraising a Health Insurance Exchange for Minnesota
Peter J. Nelson | April 2008

Can Politicians Hold to Principle Without Brutalizing Each Other?
Roger Moe & Steve Sviggum | February 2008

Is America an Experiment? Vitalizing Conservatism in Minnesota and the Nation
Wilfred M. McClay | January 2008

What Does It Mean to be an Urban Conservative? A Symposium
Introduction by Mitchell B. Pearlstein | January 2008

Randy Ahlm, King Banaian, Michael Barone,Peter Bell, William A. Blazar, Barry Casselman, Larry Colson, Roger Conant, Andrew J. Cowin, Kimberly R. Crockett, Jim Dueholm, Dave Durenberger, Devin C. Foley, Arvonne Fraser, Paul J. Gessing, Jake Haulk, John Hood, Sarah Janecek, Kate Johansen, Barbara Johnson, Greg Kaza, Sean Kershaw, Roger Magnuson, Wilfred M. McClay, Tom Neuville, Grover G. Norquist, Dennis O'Brien, Denny Schulstad, Lyall A. Schwarzkopf, Chuck Slocum, Dane Smith, Samuel R. Staley, David Strom, David E. Sturrock, David G. Tuerck, Jim Van Houten, Lou Wangberg, Craig Westover, Stephen B. Young, Nathaniel Zylstra

Why Do They Act That Way?: The Media's Enlightening and Shady Influences on Children
David Walsh | December 7, 2006

Consumer-Directed Health Care: What Does It Mean?  Where Are We Headed?
Grace-Marie Turner | November 1, 2007

Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Know About Our Schools and Why It Isn't So
Jay P. Greene | October 4, 2006

The Revolution in Parenthood: The Emerging Global Clash Between Adult Rights and Children's Needs
Elizabeth Marquardt | September 7, 2006

Early Childhood Education: Do Enthusiasts Exaggerate What It Can Do?
Ron Haskins & Art Rolnick | July 18, 2006

Stopping Boomer Health Care Budgets from Going Bust
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | July 2006

In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
Charles Murray | May 3, 2006

Devoted to Some Useful Purpose: Reforming Minnesota's Legislature for the 21st Century
Minnesota Policy Blueprint Task Force | February 2006

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

Why Won't We Let the Children Go? School Choice and a Liberal's Examination of Conscience
Elizabeth Mische | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2005

Is Our Red and Blue Nation Changing Colors
Vin Weber | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2005

The Judicial Mistreatment of Religion: Promoting a Religion-Free America
Patrick M. Garry | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2005

What Next for the Marriage Movement
A Symposium | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2005

Crime and Marriage
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2005

Racism is Sin.  But Why is it the Only One?
Patrick Garry | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2005

Mayhem in the Middle:  How middle schools have failed America, and how to make them work
Cheri Pierson Yecke | September 14, 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

Gambling In Minnesota
April 2005

Efficiency and Effectiveness in Minnesota School Districts: How Do Districts Compare?
Cheri Pierson Yecke | February 2005

Kids, Schools, and Politics:  Protecting the Integrity of Taxpayer Resources
Cheri Pierson Yecke | December 2004

Education Accountability in Minnesota: No Child Left Behind and Beyond
Cheri Pierson Yecke | September 2004

Northern Exposure:  Why Canada's Health Care System is No Rx for America
Sally C. Pipes | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer-Fall 2004

The 2004 Elections:  Are They as Pivotal as the Candidates Say?
Symposium | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer-Fall 2004

How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life
Peter Robinson | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer-Fall 2004

Religious Freedom and the War on Terror
Elizabeth Ann Massopust and Nathaniel Zylstra | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004

Common Sense School Reform
Frederick M. Hess | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004

No Excuses: Closing America's Racial Gap in Learning
Abigail Thernstrom | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004

No Excuses: Closing the Twin Cities' Racial Gap in Learning
Jon Bacal | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004

A Note on the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004

Changing School Systems
Curtis Johnson and Neal Peirce | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004

Freeing Teachers:  The Promise of Teacher Professional Partnerships
Ted Kolderie | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004

Appreciating Community Colleges: "In Many Ways, the Best Education"
Jack Miller | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2004

Task Force on Metropolitan Governance
Minnesota Policy Blueprint Task Force | December 2003

Affordable Housing:  How "Smart Growth" Dashes Minnesota Dream Homes
Kristin J. Robbins | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2003-2004

"They Beat the Hell Out of Each Other Up There": Civility in Minnesota (and National) Politics
A Symposium | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2003-2004

Giving the Devil His Due Process:  Civil Rights Meet a Culture of Terror
Roger J. Magnuson | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003

September 11:  Three Lessons Inspired by Providence
Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003

Family Life and Civic Bonds:  Renewing the "Very Air Our Loved Ones Breathe" 
William J. Doherty | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003

Faith of Our Fathers and Mothers:  Religion and the American Democracy Fall 2003
Jean Bethke Elshtain | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003

Twenty Years After A Nation at Risk:  Reconciling Grand Designs and Down-Home Rights in Education
Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003 

The Quie Legacy:  Stronger Public Schools
Joe Nathan | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003

September 11:  Three Lessons Inspired by Providence
Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003

From Checker's Desk
Chester E. Finn Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2003

The Bush Doctrine:  A Preemptive Path to Peace or a Recipe for Perpetual War?
American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2003

What Your Professors Won't Tell You:  Why Diversity Stops at the Classroom Door
Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2003

The Right Man:  The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush
David Frum | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2003

Policy Brief on S.F. 639 (Academic Standards Bill)
Katherine A. Kersten | May 1, 2003

Enron and the SAT
David Lebedoff | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2003

Fixing Social Security: Are Conservatives Up to the Job?
D. J. Tice | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2003

"Trust Us," They Explained: Racial Distrust and School Reform
Frederick M. Hess | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2003

How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom
Philip K. Howard | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2003

The Marriage Problem
David Blankenhorn | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2003

Was Horace Really the Mann?  The Many Schools of "Public" Education
Matthew J. Brouillette | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2003

Policy Brief: A Critical Consensus on the Profile of Learning
Morgan Brown | February 6, 2003

Misstating the Establishment Clause: Not What the Founders Had in Mind
James Dueholm | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2002-2003

Bias: How the Media Distort the News
Bernard Goldberg | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2002-2003

In Diversity's Holy Name: The Case for Faith-Based Scholarship at the University of Minnesota
Robert Osburn | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2002-2003 

Minnesota's Profile of Learning: A Primer on Why It Still Flunks
Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2002-2003 

Building a Culture of Character
Joseph Loconte, Samuel Gregg, Matthew Spalding, Don Eberly | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2002-2003

American Values versus Television Values
Michael Medved | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2002

The Making of Patriots
Leslie Lenkowsky | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2002

The Supremes Belt Out a New Hit:  School Choice in Minnesota after Cleveland
Duane Benson, Joshua Borenstein, Morgan Brown, et al. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2002

What's Next for the Marriage Movement?  A Strategic Discussion
Norval D. Glenn, Isabel V. Sawhill, Wade F. Horn, et al. | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2002

The Age of Reagan:  The Fall of the Old Liberal Order
Steven F. Hayward | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2002

Affordable Housing and Sprawling Regulations:  A View from St. Cloud
King Banaian | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2002

"I Sit With Shakespeare and He Winces Not":  The Great Books and the Burgeoning of Citizenship
Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2002 

Can the University of Minnesota Become Truly "World Class"? Responses
Frank B. Cerra, David B. Lebedoff, C. Peter Magrath, et al. | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2002

Why Marriage Matters: Twenty-One Conclusions from the Social Sciences
Norval D. Glenn, Steven Nock, Linda J. Waite,et al. | American Experiment Quarterly |  Spring 2002

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

Art, Media, and Culture in a Time of War
Barry Casselman | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2002

Why the Black-White Test Gap Exists
John McWhorter | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2002

Will the United States Be a Serious Country?
Newt Gingrich | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2002

How Will We Know When the War Is Over?
John Kline | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2002 
 

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

In Culture's Wake:  Conservative Values in a Culture That Has Grown Antagnoistic to Them
Patrick M. Garrry | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2000-2001

Why America Needs Missile Defense--Fast
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2001

Is Minnesota's Judicial System Really Guilty of Racism?
John H. Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2001

Are Minneapolis Cops Really Guilty of Racial Profiling?
Katherine Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2001

PC, M.D.:  How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine
Sally Satel, M.D. | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2001

Belief and Bureaucracy in the Twin Cities
Elizabeth Ann Massopust | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2001

The Virtue of Prosperity
Dinesh D'Souza | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2001

Three Governors Go Forth on School Choice
Wendell R. Anderson, Arne H. Carlson, and Albert H. Quie | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2001

The War Against Boys:  How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men
Christina Hoff Sommers | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001

A Century of Failed School Reforms:  The Case of Minnesota's Profile of Learning
Diane Ravitch | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001

Does School Choice Work?
Daniel McGroarty | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001

Nothing Plain About These Plains: Minnesota's Motley Story of School Reform
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001

A Dream Deferred: Why The Black-White Achievement Gap Won't Close
Shelby Steele | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001

What's Next for Conservatism?
Vin Weber | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001

Freedom and Its Enemies
John Stossel | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001

Bush and Gore in Florida:  The U.S. Supreme Court Got It Right
James Dueholm | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2001

Measuring the Effects of Tax Changes in Minnesota: The Minnesota State Tax Analysis Modeling Program
David G. Tuerck, Jonathan Haughton and Corina Murg | April 2001
Prepared by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University

Never Mind the Facts:  How Politically Correct Fantasies Are Causing Nightmares at St.Paul's Capitol Hill Magnet School
Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2000-2001 

Reflections On Current Contentions
William F. Buckley, Jr. |  American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 2000-2001

Bobos in Paradise:  The New Upper class and How They Got There
David Brooks | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2000

Ready or Not:  Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future -- and Ours
Kay S. Hymowitz | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2000

The Age of Transitions
Newt Gingrinch | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2000 

The Brawl over Sprawl:  Is "Smart Growth" Really All That Smart?
Steven Hayward and Ted Mondale | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 2000

Dow 36,000: Are Stocks Actually Undervalued
James K. Glassman | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2000

Heart and Soul: A Symposium on Aim and Tone in American Conservatism
American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2000

The Wisdom of the Founding Fathers: Separation of Powers and the Independent Counsel
Kenneth W. Starr | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 2000

The Case for a Flat Tax
Dick Armey | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2000

A Tale of Two States: Welfare Reform in Minnesota and Wisconsin
John H. Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2000

Should Limits Be Placed on Legal Gambling in Minnesota? You Betcha!
Kay Coles James | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 2000

 

Minnesota Policy Blueprint
1999

Turning Lives Around
Marvin Olasky | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 1999-2000

A Profile of Real Learning
Lisa Graham Keegan | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 1999-2000

Risky Business? Teaching Literature at a Christian Liberal Arts College
Mary Ellen Ashcroft | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 1999-2000

Taxes: Are Minnesotans Getting Enough of 'Em Back?
Pam Wheelock, Jason Lewis, Ron Abrams, John Hottinger, Ember Reichgott Junge
American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 1999-2000

Good Sense and Good Politics
William J. Bennett | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 1999-2000

Bill Clinton's Transformation of American Politics
Patrick M. Garry | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 1999

What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
Danielle Crittenden | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 1999

Environmental Politics in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Environmentalism
Lynn Scarlett | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 1999

Twin Cities, Multiple Anxieties: The Social and Economic Trends Behind the "Sprawl" Controversy
Steven Hayward | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 1999

Transracial Adoptions: Does the Law Matter?
Rita J. Simon | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 1999

Medical Savings Accounts: The Acute Importance of Patient Power
John C. Goodman | American Experiment Quarterly | Fall 1999

The Fatherhood Movement: A Call to Action
Wade F. Horn and David Blankenhorn | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 1999

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
John R. Lott, Jr. | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 1999

A Minnesota and United States Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 1999
David W. Riggs, Steven Hayward, and Peter J. Nelson
American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 1999

Minnesota's Profile of Learning: The Radical Mutation of a Good Idea
Katherine A. Kersten | American Experiment Quarterly | Summer 1999

School Choice: Why Poor Kids Need It Most of All
Floyd H. Flake | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 1999

Wrestling with the Future: Lessons for Conservatives from the 1998 Elections
Kate O'Beirne | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 1999

Talk Radio: Is It Good for the Soul of the Nation?
John Fund | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 1999

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

A Minnesota Index of Leading Cultural Indicators: 1999
Peter J. Nelson and Jena S. Morris | American Experiment Quarterly | Spring 1999

Honoring America's Generosity of Spirit: Religion in Minnesota's Public Square
Mitchell B. Pearlstein | American Experiment Quarterly | Winter 1998-99

Who Won the Industrial Policy Debate?
Ian Maitland | November 1994