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March 2, 2023
…Nixon’s Surprising Social Policy deserves a place in the pantheon of gossipy Washington micro-histories. Its author, John Roy Price, served in the Nixon White House under the tutelage of Daniel Patrick…
February 23, 2023
…all American students, regardless of race or class. For decades, education experts from E. D. Hirsch to Dan Willingham to Natalie Wexler have made the case that our failure to…
February 23, 2023
…esoteric theories and lead to critical chain reactions. If you don’t believe me, consider those who have suffered through post–World War II pogroms—the Rwandan Tutsis massacred in 1994, for instance,…
February 2, 2023
As parents of teens, we have kids who are beginning to think about their adult future—including college, career and family. One recent conversation Alysse had with her 17-year-old daughter is…
January 7, 2023
…success. Wendy Wang is the director of research at the Institute for Family Studies. Brad Wilcox is a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, a nonresident senior fellow at the…
January 5, 2023
…adults, white evangelical Christians, and white Catholics. Adults age 30–49, adults with less than a college degree, and black Protestants saw the largest increases in attendance between the two periods….
January 3, 2023
…off blacks’ access to swimming education and recreation. Their water activities were restricted to rivers, lakes, and ponds, which are inherently more dangerous than supervised public pools. Once de jure segregation was…
January 3, 2023
Despite efforts to close the gender wage gap, the difference between men’s and women’s wages remains a stubborn fixture of modern society. Women still make 83 cents for every dollar men make….
November 3, 2022
…Duke Charitable Foundation, was moderated by Aparna Mathur, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center. The panelists were Dana Thomson of Child Trends, Samuel Hammond of the Niskanen Center;…
May 26, 2022
…Dr. Wilcox and Dr. Wang previewed a new series of videos aimed at communicating the value of the success sequences to young adults. A panel discussion with Dr. Wilcox, Catholic…