STUDIES & ESSAYS 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 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
A Primer on How Employment-Based Health Benefits (and the Tax Code) Distort the Health Care Market Peter J. Nelson | November 2007 PDF, 447 KB A Kitchen Table Conversation About Minneapolis and Its Future
Peter Bell, Gary Cunningham, and R.T. Rybak
Moderated by Mitch Pearlstein | July 12, 2007 Should Medicare Be Means-Tested?: A Symposium
Randy Ahlm, David W. Allen, Jr., John Berthoud, William A. Blazar, Fran Bradley, Twila Brase, Michael F. Cannon, Barry Casselman, Frank B. Cerra, Larry Colson, Ward Connerly, Shikha Dalmia, Dick Day, Bryan Dowd, Jim Dueholm, Robert W. Geist, Paul J. Gessing, John C. Goodman, John R. Graham, Barbara A. Johnson, Roger Magnuson, Tom Neuville, Grover G. Norquist, Timothy Penny, Dwight Rabuse, Don Racheter, Steve Sviggum, Scott W. Wright
Introduction by Mitchell B. Pearlstein | May 2007 Achievement Gaps: What Will It Take to Close Them?
Paul E. Peterson | March 22, 2007 Sprawl: A Compact History
Robert Bruegmann | February 22, 2007 A Conversation About Minneapolis Public Schools with Chris Stewart
February 2007 Affording Boomer Long-Term Care in Minnesota and the Nation: What Do Demographics and Health Trends Tell Us?
Peter J. Nelson | February 2007 Achievement Gaps and Vouchers: How Achievement Gaps are Bigger in Minnesota than Virtually Anyplace Else and Why Vouchers are Essential to Reducing Them
Mitchell B. Pearlstein Ph.D. | January 2007
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
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