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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…

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…

December 13, 2023

Stronger Families, Safer Streets

…family. Drawing on the work of scholars like Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson—who found that “(f)amily structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of … urban violence…

September 29, 2023

How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised

…found exploitative of the suffering and despair of poor whites principally as a way to generate capital for the author’s other interests. But fear not: Currid-Halkett is a serious scholar with genuine…

August 16, 2023

How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah

…sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at…

August 14, 2023

The Narcissism of Small Diffidences

…and a perceived threat, like our child getting cut from the A team, denied a scholarship, or rejected from their first-choice college.” They are living in a country where every…

June 11, 2023

Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects

…stronger; scholars call such relationships, in which the two partners share important characteristics, “homogamous.” Homogamy matters for marriage when it predicts how a person thinks about their life goals, their ways…