Mission Impossible and Nuclear Energy: President Trump’s New Executive Orders
A version of the following commentary appeared in the Springfield News-Leader. While I will avoid any spoilers, the new movie,...
Debt Ceiling Deal Q&A
After a whirlwind period of tense negotiations, the House of Representatives and White House agreed this week on raising the...
“Mr. Mayor, Tear Down This House!”
The average size of American homes has increased dramatically in the post-war period. (And by post-war, I mean post-World War...
“If You Ain’t First, You’re Last!”
It’s billed as The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, but the Indianapolis 500 isn’t just a sporting event. At its core,...
Is There a 1984 in Our Future? A Super Bowl Reflection
What was the greatest Super Bowl commercial of all time? With Super Sunday just around corner, we will cite the...
“Medicare for All” Remains a Terrible, Terrible Idea
Last December I had the opportunity to have a radio debate with two supporters of Medicare for All, which (in...
Education Policy for Our Fractured Republic
Like most observers of American society and politics, I am trying to make sense of our current political moment. Two...
Remembering Pearl Harbor
As first appearing in the Kansas City Star and the American Spectator: A surprised and outraged Franklin D. Roosevelt called...
Streetcars (Still) Do Not Reduce Miles Driven In Cars
NextRailKC.com is the website promoting the streetcar/lightrail extension in Kansas City. The site is supposed to present information, but more...
Why Was The Depression So Great?
Show-Me Institute Policy Researcher Michael Rathbone explains the causes of the Great Depression and the effects of government policies during...
The Less-Is-Better Approach to Talking about Jobs
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon wants to be known as the Energizer Bunny of job creation. At taxpayer expense, he goes...
Herbert Hoover the Interventionist
One of the projects I have been working on lately is a unit about the Great Depression for junior high...
A Sky-Is-the-Limit Federal Budget
In Charles Dickens’ classic novel David Copperfield, one character observes the need for careful budgeting: “Annual income, twenty pounds; annual...
The Future of Higher Education?
George Leef of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy has an interesting review of self-described progressive Anya Kamenetz’s DIY...
Debate Tonight!
The Show-Me Institute is sponsoring a debate between me, Research Assistant John Payne, and Policy Analyst David Stokes on the...
Tater Tots and Tanks
Few policy issues are as as uncontroversial as the idea that the federal government should provide some kind of national...
The Role of the Lieutenant Governor in Missouri
A few days ago, the Joplin Globe ran an editorial that discussed the micro issue of the relationship between Gov. Jay...
Eric Mink Writes About Risk (the Experience, Not the Board Game)
I enjoy closely reading and analyzing Eric Mink’s columns in the Post-Dispatch, but because he primarily writes about national or...
Tennessee vs. Missouri: Taxes May Tip the Odds
Missouri nestles against eight states, so border wars of all sorts are common. Some are fun, such as this week’s...
Missouri Revolutionizes Health Insurance
We’re constantly reminded by the media that health care is in a crisis in the United States. Too few people...
