The Overton Window

‘Whichever candidate wins, they’re both promising to get rid of the personal income tax’ 10.07.2026 ↓

Oran P. Smith on South Carolina’s changing attitudes about taxation

‘The more you ask the computer to do for you, the more power you need’ 26.06.2026 ↓

Dennis Talluto on the fight over data centers

‘We need to unleash American workers, not protect them’ 12.06.2026 ↓

Dave Hebert on the state of U.S. manufacturing

‘The harsher the childcare regulations, the fewer kids people have’ 29.05.2026 ↓

Warren Anderson on how Michigan’s childcare apparatus reduces fertility

‘Affordable housing: No matter what they say in public, they're terrified of it’ 15.05.2026 ↓

Alex Cartwright on the challenge of converting hotel space into housing

‘You never talk to the people who lost the lottery, right?’ 01.05.2026 ↓

Michael James Clark on a teacher’s role and the impact of Hillsdale College

‘The difference between having a good idea and having others embrace it’ 17.04.2026 ↓

Joshua Bandoch on using persuasion to get what you want in family life and politics

‘If we do meet resistance from elected officials in Detroit, we’ll fund a referendum’ 03.04.2026 ↓

Rod Lockwood on the renewed effort to make Belle Isle Detroit’s game changer

‘People bemoan that they can't trust the news’ 20.03.2026 ↓

Jonah Goldberg discusses building The Dispatch and pushing back against clickbait journalism

‘All of your data has been stolen’ 06.03.2026 ↓

Who's stealing your tax dollars? Haywood Talcove has the answer, and it's worse than you think

‘We don't wear capes’ 20.02.2026 ↓

Donald Bryson demonstrates how think tanks help shape public policy for the better

‘A country where opportunity is still possible’ 06.02.2026 ↓

Justin Callais discusses what helps states improve life outcomes

‘Everything exploded in the world of online teaching’ 23.01.2026 ↓

Barbara Oakley on the rise, retreat, and future of online learning

‘People are very bad at managing their own finances’ 09.01.2026 ↓

Chris Surprenant talks integrating financial literacy at the high school level to improve outcomes

‘I truly believe this will transform education’ 12.12.2025 ↓

Chris Waston discusses how AI can help teachers improve student outcomes

‘Film production is a stack of gigs’ 26.11.2025 ↓

Michael Brown explains how film subsidies just don’t create jobs

‘Leadership of these unions has lost their way’ 14.11.2025 ↓

Gene Hamilton discusses shifting The Overton Window back toward the interests of American workers

‘A lot of libertarianism feels like political science fiction’ 31.10.2025 ↓

Brian Doherty talks about shifting the Overton Window in politics, statecraft, and comic books

‘We are failing in public education’ 17.10.2025 ↓

Kevin Rinke discusses literacy, leadership and lessons from politics

‘These programs do not deliver what they say on the label’ 03.10.2025 ↓

Richard Morrison and John Mozena on ESG and the potential to roll back corporate welfare

‘What constitutes separation?’ 19.09.2025 ↓

Glenn Moots discusses the evolution of church and state in America

‘Everyone already agrees that tariffs are bad, and everyone agrees that we should do something about national debt’ 05.09.2025 ↓

Dave Hebert on why many voters believe economists have conned the American people

‘It’s unlikely they’ll be able to stop tidal waves of cigarettes’ 22.08.2025 ↓

Todd Nesbit and Mike LaFaive break down their data on rising taxes and cigarette smuggling

‘When there’s a threat of failure, people innovate’ 08.08.2025 ↓

Richard Vedder discusses his book on creative destruction in higher education

‘A functioning democracy requires healthy dissent’ 25.07.2025 ↓

Stephen Henderson and Nolan Finley urge Americans to embrace civil disagreement, not avoid it