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October 1, 2024
For the Sake of the Kids: Strengthening Families in the Lone Star State
The family is the fundamental unit of society. As Pope Saint John Paul II so eloquently stated, “as the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…Labor Will Bring 6-Day Pay,” New York Times, September 26, 1926, p. 1, https://www.nytimes.com/1926/09/26/archives/ford-establishes-a-5day-week-after-test-expects-spur-to-labor-will.html?searchResultPosition=36. [15] John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” in Essays in Persuasion (New York: W….
April 5, 2024
The US Is Failing Substance-Exposed Infants
…Report 69, no. 31 (August 7, 2020): 1009–14, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6931a1.htm. Julie R. Gaither, Veronika Shabanova, and John M. Leventhal, “US National Trends in Pediatric Deaths from Prescription and Illicit Opioids, 1999–2016,” JAMA…
November 14, 2023
The Comeback City
…was pervasive, and the economy had stagnated. From John Lindsay to David Dinkins, mayor after mayor had tried to tackle these problems. They had all failed. After three decades of…
November 13, 2023
Family’s Place in America’s Social Fabric
The family is arguably the most basic building block of community life.[i] But even as Americans continue to say their own families are centrally important in their lives[ii], family life…
November 8, 2023
Measuring the Geography of Social Networks
Social interactions shape social and economic activity across a range of domains, from migration and trade flows to job search and investment behaviors. However, quantifying the effects of social interactions…
November 1, 2023
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
…with one another. Founding Father John Dickinson of Pennsylvania warned independence would result in “a multitude of Commonwealths, Crimes, and Calamities – centuries of mutual Jealousies, Hatreds, Wars and Devastations,…
August 8, 2023
Bad Hoosiers
…convention in history, Democrats chose Senator John Davis of West Virginia, who eventually went down in a historic defeat. The social and historical context of 1920s American extremism had deep…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
Download the Dataset When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his seminal Democracy in America lauding the strength of American communities, institutions, and associations, he noted the unique status of religion. Religion,…
March 2, 2023
The Lost World of Ecumenical Republicanism
…Nixon’s Surprising Social Policy deserves a place in the pantheon of gossipy Washington micro-histories. Its author, John Roy Price, served in the Nixon White House under the tutelage of Daniel Patrick…