According to the 102-yearold organization PEN America, long considered the defender of free expression — particularly regarding literature and its proliferation — we are in a “book ban crisis.” Thousands…
A new book examines the history and present impact of the Marxist ‘Revolution.’
Last year on Earth Day, I wrote about Norman Borlaug, the University of Minnesota graduate whose work creating new, higher-yielding wheat varieties helped save one billion people from starvation and…
I know who Neil Young is, but I had to Google Joe Rogan this last week or so to find out who he is. The BBC reports: Neil Young’s music…
Leigh Phillips is a Canadian science writer and the author of two books: Austerity Ecology and The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation…
Why do people do things social scientists think they shouldn't?
When your big question is 'How do we limit the amount of rich people?', you reach for socialism. When your big question is 'How do we limit the amount of…
The Minnesota Gophers football team sold out against Penn State last weekend for the first time since 2015. Is this down to the U of M? Or is it down…
Want to predict the future political pulse of American voters? Look at Canada.
If you take a walk down to the Szabadság tér which runs around the parliament building in Budapest you'll see a statue of Ronald Reagan, who gave his farewell address…
According to Milton Friedman, one of the great economists of the 20th century, "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their…
As July 4 approaches, can picnics, parades, and fireworks be far behind? That includes fireworks of more than one variety. After all, the Fourth of July can also be an…
Dayton’s rich-vs.-the-rest economic view is simply wrong
This op-ed appeared in the Duluth News-Tribune on June 13, 2017. Embattled Gov. Mark Dayton has been on the road lately. On May 30, after a marathon legislative session that…