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August 26, 2024
Vouching for Self-Sufficiency
…that “voucher receipt increases violent crime, and that this increase is driven by men.” The voucher program is not going away. It now outstrips public housing projects nationwide as the…
August 23, 2024
Can Kamala Harris Learn the Housing Lessons from Her Own History?
…to help make payments. California’s bungalows were part of a nationwide trend of naturally occurring affordable housing: row houses in Philadelphia and Baltimore, three-decker houses in New England, and two-flats…
August 16, 2024
The Harris Campaign’s Foolish Down-Payment-Assistance Scheme
On the surface, Kamala Harris’s proposal to provide $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers looks to be an incentive for upward mobility. Historically, homeownership has been the foundation for wealth creation for…
August 6, 2024
Trump’s Tax Law Diminished Incentives for Charitable Giving, But We Can Fix It
…of medical research which the National Institutes for Health shies away from (think mRNA). Maintaining the charitable deduction and extending it to a wider economic range of taxpayers should be…
May 14, 2024
Biden Can Follow FDR and Dump His VP
…Biden’s failing fortunes — and reassure the nation that a capable replacement was waiting in the wings — than the bold act of asking Harris to step aside. To be…
May 8, 2024
Correcting for Bias; How Public Radio Can Better Serve All Americans
…was recognized with a national News and Documentary Emmy award and the RFK award for coverage of the disadvantaged. I begin my testimony with a reminder of where public broadcasting…
May 4, 2024
Make Parents Pay for Kids Who Miss School To Curb Chronic School Absenteeism
…Wealthy, self-indulgent families are taking their kids out of school for extended vacations. Still, Nat Malkus of the American Enterprise Institute has found that chronic absence especially afflicts lower-income homes….
April 30, 2024
I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising
The liberal political and cultural bias of National Public Radio has moved center-stage, thanks to the Free Press essay by Uri Berliner, the former NPR editor who resigned earlier this month….
April 21, 2024
The Real Bias at NPR: Story Selection
Concern about media bias — specifically politically liberal bias — has moved center stage thanks to the cri de coeur by National Public Radio’s Uri Berliner in the Free Press. The network’s…
April 19, 2024
The New Deal’s Failed Kibbutz in the Desert
…its republication provides a key work in the ouvre of Banfield, who would go on to join Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer as the key intellectual critics of such overreaches…