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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 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 8, 2024
When Americans file their taxes in the coming weeks, one group will be singled out for a tax hike: middle-class families with children. This April, a family with three children making…
April 8, 2024
…concentrated during the program’s first few months when $600-per-week PUC supplements far outweighed guaranteed minimum PUA payments averaging around $165 per week nationwide. Omitting that enormous figure would do more than diminish…
April 3, 2024
…Nat Malkus, who’s tracked the numbers on chronic absenteeism in his widely-referenced Return to Learn Tracker, has reported the situation is even worse in the nation’s poorest and low-achieving communities. In Los Angeles,…
March 31, 2024
…local politics, and crime. But is the rise of nonprofit local news a Trojan horse? Major national foundations have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the new generation of…
March 30, 2024
…be effective. A National Institutes of Health-funded study found that “mass-reach health communication campaigns can increase tobacco cessation and change tobacco-related social norms.” That’s exactly what we need when it comes…
March 28, 2024
…of some of the nation’s most prestigious universities, the blatant and unrepentant campus antisemitism on display, and the laughably hypocritical double standards applied to speech have illustrated the problems in…