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March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…the anthropologist Nicholas Townsend has observed that, for most men, “marriage, work, and fatherhood” go together as a “package deal.” When Reeves wrote “Of Boys and Men” in 2022 as a center-left…
February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
What is the American dream? It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who…
December 2, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox
…strength with my colleague, Nicholas Zill, and we’re finding that Utah is No. 1 when it comes to family strength in America. There’s no state, for instance, that has more…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…writer Nicholas Lemann, of its “national aspirations and of the University of California’s high status in public higher education.” But it would take another two decades for the University of…
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 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…birth rates and marriage rates. Moreover, a growing mass of able-bodied young men, and some young women, are simply opting out of the labor force, as my American Enterprise Institute colleague Nicholas Eberstadt has…
September 17, 2024
The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States
…seemingly gone out of its way to undermine families and children,” argued the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, pointing to the Republican Party’s opposition to a host of policies he believes would help families….
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…SCP Report No. 3-18, 2018, https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2018/9/inactive-disconnected-and-ailing-a-portrait-of-prime-age-men-out-of-the-labor-force. Nicholas Eberstadt, Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis (Templeton Press, 2016). [47] Nicholas Eberstadt, “Education and Men without Work,” National Affairs, 2020, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/education-and-men-without-work. [48]…
May 15, 2024
The American heart is closing to marriage and family. Can red states change that?
…decline of 6% over the same time frame. Efforts such as these are important because research carried out with my colleague Nicholas Zill indicates that “Florida counties that enjoy strong and stable…
March 21, 2024
Why Foster Kids Aren’t Getting the Mental Health Care They need
…light on what is happening. According to the report, “Families Matter to Kids’ Mental Health” by Nicholas Zill, there are about 8 million children in the U.S. who need psychiatric…