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October 21, 2024

US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China

…sector. Moreover, this focus on the effects of Chinese imports fails to account for the fact that open trade also increases exports. Studying the 1999-2011 period, economists Robert C. Feenstra,…

October 14, 2024

Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare

The only thing surprising about Dorothy Roberts winning a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” earlier this month is that it took the organization so long to do it. Roberts, a law…

October 11, 2024

Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions

…Latino applicants? Is Yale using “holistic admissions” to circumvent the law and micro-manage the racial makeup of the student body? Are some selective colleges using Chief Justice Roberts’s “essay loophole”…

October 11, 2024

It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem

…a problem you can’t measure. That’s not to say we know nothing about certain aspects of our worsening social poverty problem. Robert Putnam documented the decline of clubs and civic institutions, the Joint…

October 9, 2024

Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”

…important understanding of the actual content of the studies themselves.) The economists Robert C. Feenstra, Hong Ma, and Yuan Xu attempt to estimate the effects of trade openness on both…

October 9, 2024

Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class

…family.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., parodied those answers at a recent rally in Michigan: “All you have to know is seven words, and you never have to admit to doing…

September 20, 2024

Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People

…a particular community have for young people growing up there. Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute, highlighted one of the study’s implications on crafting social welfare policy: “There is a…

June 15, 2024

Reimagining Early Education

…Conservative sociologist Robert Nisbet wrote: “Pluralist society is free society exactly in proportion to its ability to protect as large a domain as possible that is governed by the informal,…

May 8, 2024

Beltway Liberals Are Playing Name Games to Expand the Welfare State

…Longtime policy expert Robert Greenstein suggested this group is constituted of “poor, non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive disability benefits.” Naturally, proponents didn’t offer the…

January 2, 2024

Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing

…Philip Johnson and Robert A.M. Stern. (Disney has sold off most of its holdings.) Not far from Seoul, the Songdo International Business District was developed by a consortium of real…