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The Long Fight for Educational Freedom with Neal McCluskey and James Shuls

The Long Fight for Educational Freedom with Neal McCluskey and James Shuls

Nov 6, 2025

Learn more about the book here: www.cato.org/books/fighting-freedom-learn Susan Pendergrass speaks with James Shuls, fellow at the Show-Me Institute and head of...

Weighing Consumer Regulated Electricity to Meet Energy Demand Growth

Weighing Consumer Regulated Electricity to Meet Energy Demand Growth

Mar 27, 2025

The Missouri Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 4 to address concerns about the state’s energy future. Much of the bill...

Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites with Ilya Shapiro on April 10

Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites with Ilya Shapiro on April 10

Mar 27, 2025

In partnership with the WashULaw Federalist Society, the Show-Me Institute is pleased to present Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional...

Missouri Must Do Better at Controlling Spending

Missouri Must Do Better at Controlling Spending

Jan 27, 2025

A version of the following commentary appeared in the Springfield News-Leader. Elections and inaugurations are a time for reflection and...

Does Missouri Need a DOGE?

Does Missouri Need a DOGE?

Dec 26, 2024

The Cato Institute’s recent report, “Cato Institute Report to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): How to Downsize and Reform...

Missouri Nearly Fails Cato’s Test

Missouri Nearly Fails Cato’s Test

Oct 24, 2024

Missouri’s government spending is out of control, and a new report from the Cato Institute, a free-market think in Washington,...

The War on Prices with Ryan Bourne

The War on Prices with Ryan Bourne

Jun 11, 2024

In this episode, Susan Pendergrass speaks with Ryan Bourne, the R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics...

September 6 Event – Corey DeAngelis: The Case for School Choice

September 6 Event – Corey DeAngelis: The Case for School Choice

Aug 4, 2023

RECEPTION: 5:00 P.M. PRESENTATION : 6:00 P.M. Join the Show-Me Institute in St. Louis, Missouri at our annual Next Gen...

A New Normal in the Housing Market with Mark A. Calabria

A New Normal in the Housing Market with Mark A. Calabria

May 26, 2023

Susan Pendergrass speaks with Mark A. Calabria about new mortgage regulations designed to increase equity in home ownership, if today’s...

A New “License Compact”? Why?

A New “License Compact”? Why?

Mar 2, 2021

Last year, the Missouri Legislature passed a watershed law that established one of the first true interstate license reciprocity reforms...

What About the other 80 Percent of Missourians?

What About the other 80 Percent of Missourians?

Nov 23, 2020

About 30 percent of Missourians, age 25 and older, have a bachelor’s degree or higher. It’s estimated that about 60...

Cato’s Michael Cannon Visits the Podcast

Cato’s Michael Cannon Visits the Podcast

Aug 20, 2020

Last week, Stuart Butler of the Brookings Institution joined the Show-Me Institute Podcast to talk about his views on health care...

Agreeing and Disagreeing on Health Care Reform

Agreeing and Disagreeing on Health Care Reform

Aug 14, 2020

This week, my colleague Susan Pendergrass and I had the opportunity to sit down for a podcast with Stuart Butler,...

The Latest Episode of the Show-Me Institute Podcast

The Latest Episode of the Show-Me Institute Podcast

Jan 31, 2020

https://soundcloud.com/show-me-institute/smi-podcast-its-right-because-its-right-corey-deangelis We celebrated National School Choice Week on the SMI podcast with Corey DeAngelis. In this episode, Corey and Dr....

Free Lecture: Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner on How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor

Free Lecture: Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner on How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor

Nov 5, 2019

Event Details:  Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives...

Health Care Desperately Needs Competition-Retail Medicine Provides It

Health Care Desperately Needs Competition-Retail Medicine Provides It

Apr 25, 2019

If you need a flu shot, you could make an appointment with your physician, wait at a potentially inconvenient location,...

Why is American Health Care So Expensive? Because You’ve Been Overcharged

Why is American Health Care So Expensive? Because You’ve Been Overcharged

Apr 22, 2019

Hot off the Cato Institute press, Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care tackles an anxiety-inducing question: Why...

Rest in Peace, Stan Brock

Rest in Peace, Stan Brock

Aug 29, 2018

This afternoon I received an email from Remote Area Medical (RAM), the volunteer health care organization that largely served as...

Licensing Requirements Holding Back Telemedicine

Licensing Requirements Holding Back Telemedicine

Nov 28, 2017

Imagine that you suffer from a heart condition that requires daily monitoring of your resting heart rate, blood pressure, and...

The School Choice Segregation Myth

The School Choice Segregation Myth

Sep 5, 2017

It’s time to put to bed a nasty myth about school choice (exemplified in this letter from American Federation of...

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