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February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…temptations. Religious married men are markedly less likely to use pornography than their secular peers, according to the 2022 State of Our Unions Survey. Only 35 percent of religious husbands have…
February 15, 2024
Harvard (Mis)Leading Housing Study
…(2015). It’s a finding that seems to point to what subsidized housing advocates have believed since the Depression: that the private market inevitably fails the poor. The report itself included…
February 14, 2024
Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis
…to say about marriage and childbearing, even though there is no group of Americans less lonely than married parents. As we mark this romantic day, more young and middle-aged single…
February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…marketing in her twenties over finding the one, and is now in her mid-thirties and regretting that strategy. If she could go back in time, she told me, “I would…
February 13, 2024
The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
…by the notion that family diversity—the idea that all family forms are equally valid and valuable for kids—is a mark of moral progress in society. The phenomenon of people in…
February 12, 2024
Millennials Are Doing Better than You Probably Think
…previous one. To do this, Corinth and Larrimore create a measure of income that includes market income but also accounts for taxes and resources gained from government benefit programs. They…
February 9, 2024
Don’t Buy the Soulmate Myth
…shows and books, from the latest offerings on the Hallmark Channel to Elizabeth Gilbert’s mega-bestseller, “Eat, Pray, Love.” This model is based on the idea of finding a “soulmate”—that special…
February 7, 2024
Solving Benefit Cliffs in SNAP
…that the household does not include an elderly or disabled member. It also assumes that a households’ shelter costs accord with Fair Market Rents established by the US Department of…
February 7, 2024
Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.
…and Mindy Marks calculated that in 1961 the average full-time student at a four-year college studied about 24 hours per week; by 2003, that was down to 14 hours. We’ve normalized a…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…when yesterday’s left worked to impose bureaucratic uniformity on the nation’s schools. Rather, we’ll focus on the era of education reform that started in 1983 with the landmark report, A Nation…