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March 24, 2023
How Religious Faith and a Sense of Agency Corresponds with Mental Health
…the opinion that small actions by individuals have the potential to fix things.This idea of human dignity — so central to Judeo-Christian teachings — is a vital part of helping…
March 2, 2023
The Lost World of Ecumenical Republicanism
…consensus for shifting from welfare to income. Milton and Rose Friedman’s 1962 proposal for a negative income tax had at least the potential to appeal to the libertarian right as an alternative…
February 23, 2023
Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps
Policymakers and practitioners can do only so much to solve any problem without a clear, unbiased view of the underlying causes. Educators today have failed to improve student achievement largely…
February 23, 2023
Heeding the Warning from the Future
…or the southern European communities ravaged in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to envision an unscrupulous politician in this country welding a majority out…
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
…Scholars Ian Rowe | Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps Policymakers and practitioners can do only so much to solve any problem without a clear, unbiased view…
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
Editor’s Note: The following chapters are AEI scholars’ contributions to a report from Opportunity America’s working group on K-12 education. The toll of the pandemic years is becoming clearer every…
February 13, 2023
The Eerie Familiarity of California’s Boom-Bust Cycle
…political tensions in American society in much the same way historian Ted Widmer says the “Lightning,” a popular name for the telegraph, did during the run-up to the Civil War. Easy money…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…as the educator Ian Rowe wrote in his new book Agency. Rather than teaching the narratives of “blaming the system” or “blaming the victim,” we should focus on helping young adults follow…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…mattered. “Libertarian fundamentalists” and “cosmopolitan elites” pushing deindustrialization, rather than “culture,” were deemed the headwaters of white poverty for the simple reason that it’s easier to claim victim status when…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…confirm that the conventional wisdom is off-base. According to the CBO, median household income from market activities – labor, business, and capital income, as well as retirement income from past…