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October 3, 2024

Stop the insanity. Our national debt now tops $35 trillion…

America’s political leaders have a spending problem.  They know entitlement programs feature benefit promises far exceeding their tax base, but have done nothing to make them sound. Meanwhile, both parties demand…

September 21, 2024

Why Is Race Still a Factor in Adoption?

…tones, but Tucker is far more brazen.  Ryan Hanlon, the president of the National Council for Adoption, notes that “there is an important role for adoption agencies to ensure pre-adoptive…

March 14, 2024

The Chipping Away at Safe Haven Laws

Ryan Hanlon, who heads the National Council for Adoption, told me, “Without additional information, why would we act to disrupt the decision the mother made in placing her child as…

March 6, 2024

College or Trade School? How About Both?

…premiums that previous generations enjoyed. Further, as economist Bryan Caplan has pointed out, the value of a degree is back-loaded, with almost all of the economic returns concentrated in the final year of…

February 7, 2024

Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.

…arrive, however, they hunt for professors with low expectations,” George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan noted in The Case Against Education. We need to reset expectations and incentives for students and…

January 7, 2023

Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success

…As the economist Bryan Caplan commented, the causation between the success sequence and poverty is obvious: “‘Dropping out, idleness, and single parenthood make you poor’ is on par with ‘burning money…

January 3, 2022

Dynamism as a Public Philosophy

…society can grow again — block by block, from the ground up, with eyes on the future. Ryan Streeter is the director of domestic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute….