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August 10, 2023

The Real Reason People Leave Religion

…to explain America’s cross-cultural religious decline. There’s simply not much evidence that hyper-involved parents are taking kids out of bible study to enroll them in Russian math classes.  The question remains:…

By Daniel A. Cox

August 8, 2023

Bad Hoosiers

…and uncertain congregations. His generous “donations” encouraged the pastors to conflate Christian doctrine with Klan social views. From the pulpit, pastors encouraged congregants to join up.  Ennui exacerbated this social…

By Brent Orrell

August 5, 2023

Rent Control ‘Shabbifying’ NY’s Housing As Owners Feel the Squeeze

…disappeared. The difference between median regulated rents ($1,400) and unregulated rents ($1,825) is not nearly as great as protestors would have folks think. And the rising vacancy rate suggests market…

By Howard Husock

August 4, 2023

The Racial Wealth Gap: Myths and Realities

…result, he concluded, “What this shows is that 97 percent of the overall racial wealth gap is driven by households above the median of each racial group.”  Indeed, over two-thirds…

By Robert Cherry

August 3, 2023

Fight Crime, and Poverty, with Civil Society

…County, in particular, has a much higher crime rate than the national average, and crime has been rising since the COVID lockdowns, which were extraordinarily draconian in PG County. Moore…

By Timothy P. Carney

August 2, 2023

Measuring Social Capital: Can We Tell If Some Places Are Richer in Social Capital Than Others?

…in the lowest decile of social capital—Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Florida, and Arizona—consistently rank below the median on each subindex,[3] suggesting that each subindex captures related features of social capital. Similarly,…

By Scott Winship | Thomas O’Rourke

August 1, 2023

How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl

…a family of four, or a family plan, which is something a little over $20,000. But that’s not how the median family buys their health insurance. The median family is…

By James Pethokoukis

July 30, 2023

26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years

No New York pedestrian would disagree with Eric Adam’s characterization of the city’s ubiquitous sidewalk sheds at stalled construction sites as “ugly little green boxes.”  But his targeting of private…

By Howard Husock

July 27, 2023

Time to Do Something About the NILFs

…54 (1950-2021) Data sources: Mitra Toosi, “A century of change: the U.S. labor force, 1950–2050,” May 2002, Census.gov; and “Civilian labor force participation rate by age, sex, race, and ethnicity,” Table 3.3, Census.gov (accessed on July 26, 2023)….

By Brent Orrell

July 25, 2023

Not Just Tulsa

…as the setting for playwright August Wilson’s greatest plays, such as Fences and Jitney and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. (Wilson’s home is preserved today, but the neighborhood is gone). As Brian Robick wrote in…

By Howard Husock