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September 25, 2024

The Promise — and Danger — of Kamala Harris’s YIMBYism

…for new, “missing middle” starter homes. It would mean not pushing for “low-income” housing that conjures public housing high-rises but, rather, what Edward Pinto and Tobias Peters, my colleagues at…

April 3, 2024

The Fearless Fund, DEI, and Attacks on Philanthropic Freedom

…Alliance for Equal Rights, the nonprofit run by conservative activist Edward Blum. That same group successfully challenged college affirmative action admissions policies before the Supreme Court last summer. Like that case, this…

August 7, 2023

Union Square Melee Proves Riots Have Little to Do with Real Political Grievances

…police homicides of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. There’s always been a significant part of the crowd that is, in Harvard social scientist Edward Banfield’s…

July 25, 2023

Not Just Tulsa

…were doing blacks a favor by including them in these programs. Many then viewed public housing as desirable quarters. As Edward Banfield and Martin Meyerson wrote in their landmark book…