Residential Assignment, No School Choice: A Terrible System
Recently, I presented a paper at a conference in Madrid, Spain. The conference brought together education scholars from across Europe,...
Trump vs. Harley-and the World
In its own words, the Trump Organization is “the world’s only global luxury real estate super-brand,” with five- and six-star...
Subsidies Are Cleared for Takeoff as Wow Air Comes to Saint Louis
In August, many Saint Louisans (myself included) were excited to hear that Iceland’s budget airline Wow Air will begin operating...
Putting the APPP in Perspective
The City of St. Louis is exploring the privatization of Lambert International Airport through the federal Airport Pilot Privatization Program...
Leadership Lessons from Attila the Hen: Margaret Thatcher on Europe-and the United States
It was a vintage if ill-advised display of firmness. A quarter of a century ago, Margaret Thatcher threw the British...
Remembering Pearl Harbor
As first appearing in the Kansas City Star and the American Spectator: A surprised and outraged Franklin D. Roosevelt called...
Aerotropolis Revisited
Many Missouri residents remember the ill-fated effort to create a China Hub at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The plan, dubbed...
Let Market Guide Us To Prosperity In ’14
As first appearing in the January 7, 2014, Columbia Daily Tribune: Here are five market-oriented resolutions for a more prosperous...
Five New Year’s Resolutions for Enhancing Liberty – And Pulling Back from the ‘Fiscal Cliff’
In past years, the Show-Me Institute proposed New Year’s resolutions aimed at Missouri policymakers. This time, our New Year’s resolutions...
Witches, Economic Development Promises, and Baseball
I had no idea that there were so many witches in Romania. Or that European politicians (including French President Nicolas...
Post-Dispatch on Aerotropolis: “Those goods don’t actually have to be flown by plane…”
Longtime readers of the Show-Me Institute’s research into the Aerotropolis legislation have known for some time that the bill’s tax...
Gooooooaaaaaaaallllll!!!!! Supply-Side Economics, 1; Missouri, Nil
As Americans, we often don’t enjoy hearing how some country in Europe is doing something better than the United States....
Real School Choice Options Would Help to Narrow Educational Achievement Gap
This week, organizations across the country are holding events to celebrate National School Choice Week, so it’s worth taking a...
“No Coherent Strategy” for Teaching Foreign Languages
The New York Times‘ Room for Debate blog asks whether Chinese instruction will take hold in American schools or whether...
Food Protectionism in Europe
The Wall Street Journal reports on the strange predicament of an English village named Stilton: The bar on producing Stilton...
The High Cost of High-Speed Rail
During the drive home from work yesterday, I listened to a discussion of high-speed rail on NPR’s “Marketplace.” Mitchell Hartman...
Cap and Trade Dangerous for Missouri
A cap and trade bill was narrowly passed in the House of Representatives on Friday afternoon. If passed in the...
Rating Schools in Britain
I came across this story by way of the Panama City Renaissance School blog. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has...
The Little Engine That Could
Train service around here can be awfully slow. Not so slow as the horse-drawn carriages the government allowed to fade...
Blunt Vetoes Quality Jobs Act
On KY3’s Political Notebook blog, a post discusses Gov. Matt Blunt vetoing the Quality Jobs Act. The main reason for...
