The DFL’s left and right go to war. On July 7, 1977, state DFL Rep. Phyllis Kahn from Minneapolis addressed a meeting at the Capitol’s State Office Building in St.…
Crime and public safety are universal concerns that transcend politics and race. But more specifically in the black community — in the United States and Minnesota — is the overwhelming…
This week marks National Police Week, in honor of the peace officers who have fallen in the line of duty over the past year. Governor Walz has ordered flags in Minnesota…
A variety of words have been used to describe the 2023 Minnesota legislative session. Depending on which side of the political aisle you place yourself, the session was either “bonkers”…
“The Officer Down Memorial Podcast is dedicated to the memory of our fallen heroes in law enforcement, to the agencies they served with, and to the families they left behind. “ …
Rather than showing appreciation for the citizen soldiers whose lives have been upended to protect against a replay of last summer's riots, organized labor activists jeered and expelled them.
A monetary theory more Aristotle than Copernicus.
Why the 'Happy Warrior' would find no perch among today's progressives.
Like the undermentioned parrot, Modern Monetary Theory fails to check three boxes.
In a recent interview, former Vice President Joe Biden said "Milton Friedman isn't running the show anymore" We might be better off if he was.
A new study provides qualified support for the private provision of social insurance.
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2020 Issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. Hubert…
For a while in the mid-1960s, Bob Dylan, born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, was one of the dominant cultural forces in the world and a large part of…
1968 did not usher in the Age of Aquarius. From the glimpses we got, like the Manson Family and Altamont, it would have been the ultimate bad trip.
Turns out there is a fancy French word, “l’esprit d’escalier” to describe an artful, witty comeback. It literally means “staircase wit” as in one only realizes their missed opportunity for…
A few hours after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, I met with several other Binghamton University students to plan a memorial event of some kind. …
Milton Friedman was an economist with a rare gift for translating technical arguments into clear prose (as you will find at length in his books Capitalism and Freedom and Free…
Redistributionists stifle Minnesota's economic growth potential.