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Robert Genetski’s search for answers, starting from a place of skepticism and doubt and using tools acquired during a long career spent finding and analyzing evidence, ends with a declaration of faith.

Book & Movie Reviews

Is There Evidence for God?

Douglas Hyde presents a “To Do List” that can transform an organization from a mere debating society into an effective force for political change.

Book & Movie Reviews

What Conservatives Can Learn from Communists

Imagine how happy I am to have discovered that Gerd Gigerenzer emerged as an outspoken critic of “behavioral economics."

Essays

The Fallacies of Behavioral Economics

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$If a state repeals its CCSS, what should replace them? State elected officials face several choices.$

Policy Studies

Replacing Common Core: Choices and Trade-Offs

March 25, 2016

The AMS survey found only 52 percent of the members who responded to the survey believe the warming of the past 150 years was man-made.

Policy Studies

AMS Survey Shows No Consensus on Global Warming

November 28, 2013

This Policy Brief summarizes past research and presents new analysis showing how a proposal called the Taxpayer Savings Grant Program would enable the state to comply with its constitutional mandate to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.”

Policy Studies

Making Texas Public Education More Efficient

March 1, 2013

This Policy Brief presents the rationale for empowering parents with Parent Trigger legislation and then offers design guidelines for parents and elected officials interested in crafting legislation for their city or state.

Policy Studies

The Parent Trigger: Justification and Design Guidelines

November 15, 2012

Do 98 percent of climate scientists really believe in man-made global warming? A little research reveals that the often-cited figure is a confused and erroneous reference to two different studies that both fail to prove what those who cite them believe or allege.

Policy Studies

The Myth of the 98 Percent

October 26, 2012

This essay shows how changing the ownership of sports franchises may be the best way to end the practice of taxpayers subsidizing sports stadiums. The Green Bay Packers illustrate one way to do this, offering a model for other communities to follow.

Policy Studies

How to Stop Sports Stadium Madness: Is Fan Ownership the Answer?

February 1, 2012

The Indiana State Scholarship Act is a breakthrough for school choice in a pivotal state.

Policy Studies

The Indiana School Scholarship Act (House Bill 1003)

June 1, 2011

There are strong theoretical arguments and considerable empirical evidence that professional educators would benefit personally from expanding school choice.

Policy Studies

How Teachers in Texas Would Benefit from Expanding School Choice

April 26, 2011

This study reports the results of an independent examination of the likely savings to taxpayers of an “education savings grant program” for the State of Texas.

Policy Studies

Budget Impact of the Texas Taxpayers’ Savings Grant Program

April 26, 2011

Economist James L. Johnston’s theory explains why electric utilities and the supply of doctors, for example, are so widely regulated.

Policy Studies

Why Regulate? New Applications of the “Johston Test”

October 1, 2010