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April 19, 2024
…its republication provides a key work in the ouvre of Banfield, who would go on to join Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer as the key intellectual critics of such overreaches…
April 18, 2024
…lies in the subjective nature of food insecurity. Every December, the US Census Bureau asks a representative group of Americans up to 18 questions about their experience of food-related hardships over the…
April 18, 2024
…support for public goods such as national defense and education, or can reconfigure supply chains or shore up social insurance programs. A society without growth requires someone to be worse…
April 18, 2024
…often have discounted the importance of the nation’s houses of worship. One recent New Yorker article, for instance, suggested faith left Christian men tortured by “guilt and shame that makes…
April 17, 2024
…poverty literature. This paper provides the most detailed and accurate portrait to date of the level and persistence of material disadvantage faced by this population, including the first national estimates…
April 17, 2024
…and a ballooning national debt. All it takes is a quick look at our deteriorating fiscal picture to realize this is no time to add billions in new spending. The…
April 11, 2024
Last weekend, I gave a talk at the U.S. ResearchEd conference in Greenwich, Connecticut, on “The Case for Curriculum,” based on a paper I wrote for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which was published this week at The…
April 11, 2024
…connect students to their community, promote patriotism, and be open minded towards faith and family. At the same time, of course, educational outcomes matter mightily, for students and the nation. A…
April 10, 2024
…natives is down, unemployment among Black or African American individuals is up, and full-time employment has fallen. Employment by US natives is down While up last month, as displayed below,…
April 9, 2024
…don’t think I have the authority,” he wisely said. And beyond the question of authority, he seemed to acknowledge the ill-conceived nature of broad-based student loan cancellation when he offered…