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August 14, 2023
Keep the Utah Family Miracle Going Strong
…Joseph Price at Brigham Young University and Robert Lerman at the Urban Institute, as well as Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia, indicates that one of the top predictors…
August 13, 2023
The Bill to Repair NYCHA Projects Doubles—but Pols Won’t Fix the System
We knew Big Apple public housing is in dangerously bad shape—but it turns out it’s twice as bad as we thought. New York City Housing Authority officials just revealed the $40…
August 12, 2023
Gen Z Shouldn’t Dismiss Marriage So Lightly
A viral TikTok video doesn’t pull any punches in depicting the so-called negatives of marriage and motherhood for young women. The video, that has been racking up millions of views, shows a…
August 12, 2023
Why Ending Child Services Is the New Defund the Police
…theories of activists and academics calling on government agencies to end it entirely pose a serious danger to our most vulnerable children. The “abolitionists,” as they like to style themselves,…
August 11, 2023
Why Does NY Campaign To Stop Smoking But Not Illicit Drug Use?
…— which cautions against smoking too much. There’s no discussion at all that cannabis is a potentially dangerous drug or that one might be better off avoiding it altogether. There’s…
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
More than a decade ago, the Pew Research Center released a path-breaking study on people without religion: “Nones” on the Rise. At the time, I was in graduate school studying political science…
August 8, 2023
Bad Hoosiers
…program. In an effort to protect her job, she lobbied Stephenson and was, in modern parlance, “groomed” by him, dangling the job and repeatedly asking her for dates. Eventually, Stephenson…
August 3, 2023
Does Money (and Economic Growth) Buy Happiness?
…enough. In a 2010 paper, Nobel-laureate economists Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton found that once incomes hit a ceiling of $75,000, further gains do not make us happier. So Scandinavia and the…
August 2, 2023
The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage
Americans who are married with children are now leading happier and more prosperous lives, on average, than men and women who are single and childless. Is that statement surprising? In an age…
July 30, 2023
26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years
…owner has more sidewalk sheds than the city’s Housing Authority. “Almost every development has them,” observes Danny Barber, the head of NYCHA’s Council of Presidents, whose members represent tenants from…