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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…
March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…Few people would question the idea that regularly eating together promotes family closeness and affection. Unfortunately, research by the eminent scholar of social capital, Robert Putnam, indicates that the share…
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…many state scholarships essentially operate as vouchers for low-income students to attend the school, public or private, of their choice. Heavily subsidized federal student loans can also be used at…
March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, puts adaptability front and center in his recent book The Career Arts. In doing so, he helps to fight back against…