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May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
American men are in trouble. From Richard Reeves’ “Of Boys and Men” to Nicholas Eberstadt’s “Men Without Work,” we have learned that men are opting out of our most important institutions…
April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…their work. It appears to have been coined in 2009 by economists Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca, and John van Reenen. [iii] According to Opportunity Insights data, the 75th percentile of commuting zones had a population…
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…
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]…
January 25, 2024
On the Front Porch with Brent Orrell and Tony Pipa: A Conversation with Nicholas F. Jacobs
…Mr. Orrell and Mr. Pipa spoke with Nicholas F. Jacobs, the author of The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America, a recent book that examines the state of politics in rural America….
September 25, 2023
As NYC Reels from Fentanyl Day Care Tragedy, Child Care Overdoses Are More Common Than We Think
“He had so much love,” Zoila Dominici said of her 1-year-old son Nicholas who died last week from fentanyl exposure after his home-based day care in The Bronx, Divino Nino, was found to…