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October 31, 2024

The Republican Marriage Advantage: Partisanship, Marriage, And Family Stability In The Trump Era

…Republicans and Democrats in this same age group, according to combined GSS data from 2016 to 2022.  Which Party Has More Stable, Two-Parent Families? Several scholars and journalists have argued…

October 17, 2024

Harris’ Tax Plans Would Reduce Long-Term Prosperity. Trump’s Proposals Might Be Even Worse.

AEI Scholar and Director of Economic Policy Studies Michael R. Strain contributed to the Dispatch’s Symposium titled Economic Policy Experts: Doom, Thy Name Is Populism, as a group of experts outlined…

September 20, 2024

How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots

…gangsters, but, per a Boston College scholarly history, “alongside its churches, dozens of Irish social and charitable organizations flourished in Southie, including eleven chapters of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.” For all…

August 6, 2024

Trump’s Tax Law Diminished Incentives for Charitable Giving, But We Can Fix It

…do what government cannot. Such giving is the lifeblood of civil society, of organizations that bind communities together, whether through local park conservancies or school scholarship programs, or the kinds…

June 23, 2024

Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?

…injury-related fatalities have been growing. And new research from scholars at Virginia Commonwealth University finds that those deaths have been rising faster for young people who are Black or Native…

June 13, 2024

Why Married Fathers Matter

…States. Meanwhile, young men are much more likely to be denizens of the basement or, even worse, prison or jail. What accounts for this male malaise? Education scholars Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Stephen…

May 14, 2024

Biden Can Follow FDR and Dump His VP

…private capital investor and Rhodes Scholar, recently got a star turn on “60 Minutes.” She stood up to public sector unions in resolving the pension financing crisis in Little Rhody….

May 2, 2024

Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education

…educators and scholars. So, when we say “conservative,” we have in mind a set of values and principles that undergird our approach to education. We couldn’t care less how you…

May 1, 2024

The closing of the American heart

…down from more than 85% in the 1950s. Judging by scholarship by Melissa Kearney (2023), Paul Amato (2005), and Sara McLanahan and Isabel Sawhill (2015), there is no question that the concern I had was merited….

April 22, 2024

John Silber, the Campuses Have Need of You

…Kant scholar, who, though impugned for allegedly resisting free speech, engaged intellectually on the issue. In 1986, students at Boston University, much like those at present-day Columbia, set up a…