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July 25, 2023

Not Just Tulsa

…housing projects. In Detroit, the Brewster Homes, later the Brewster–Douglass Housing Projects, would be built to replace the neighborhoods of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. Detroit historian Jamon Jordan estimates that,…

July 24, 2023

The Power of the Humble Pub

…percent) are on the fence about it. To address the dangerous levels of loneliness, the UK established a Minister of Loneliness. The trends all line up here: As pubs disappear and…

July 21, 2023

Can Spain Defuse Its Depopulation Bomb?

Over the past 40 years, no party has dominated the Spanish political landscape like the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, or PSOE, now headed by Pedro Sánchez. Yet frustration over its…

July 21, 2023

Why Freedom Conservatism Matters

…things, have long been individualistic and suspicious of authority. It held because conservatives of all stripes perceived a common danger in unconstrained government and, perhaps most important, in the Soviet…

July 18, 2023

The Great Recession, COVID-19, Interest Hikes Left a 15-Year Mark on Housing

How have the Great Recession in 2007, the COVID-19 pandemic that hit in 2020, and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes that started in 2022 affected mortgages in the region?…

July 17, 2023

What the Rise in Dog Attacks Signals About the State of America’s Social Capital

If you have ever had the unfortunate experience of being attacked or bitten by a dog, you’re not alone. The one time it happened to me was while walking at…

July 14, 2023

Do We Need a Reboot? Challenging Prevailing Narratives on AI

…are well aware of the benefits AI can bring and are duly skeptical of calls for pauses and existential risk arguments that posit science fiction-like dangers. Just as hard cases…

July 12, 2023

Rethinking the Impact of the Lockdowns

dangerously overstated with those on the Left regularly alleging negative, harmful consequences for non-whites as a default and without sufficient evidence. The global pandemic lockdowns are a perfect example of…

July 12, 2023

Local News and Social Capital

Joseph Schumpeter famously observed that capitalism unleashed “creative destruction.”[i] If that is so for American journalism, just such a wave has, without doubt, been destroying local newspapers. What’s not yet clear…

June 30, 2023

House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage

We just got more bad news about marriage. A record-high 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States were never married in 2021, according to sobering new statistics from the Pew Research Center. That statistic compares to…