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April 19, 2024
The New Deal’s Failed Kibbutz in the Desert
…with theory—about race, class, or gender—and then seek to illustrate it empirically. Like Glazer and Daniel Bell, he was a journalist before being tenured at Harvard. Those who would follow…
April 18, 2024
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…of family structure.” But books by Melissa Kearney (“The Two-Parent Privilege”), Rob Henderson (“Troubled”) and Brad Wilcox (“Get Married”) underlining the value and importance of marriage and stable family life…
March 14, 2024
The “No Excuses” Model Is Due for a Renaissance
…problems, and as Daniel Buck never tires of pointing out, an exodus of teachers owing to declines in classroom culture and school safety. The first step is rescuing “no excuses” from its…
March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…the 8-point drop Cox finds between the two generations. It’s possible that, since the Millennials are looking further back in time than the Gen Zers in Cox’s 2021 survey, they…
March 8, 2024
Jason Kelce, Family Man
…the benefits of marriage and family. In other words, a good family man. * * * Brad Wilcox is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and…
March 5, 2024
The Societal Cost of the Marriage Decline
…matters for all of us, whether you end up tying the knot or not. Daniel A. Cox is the director and founder of the Survey Center on American Life and a…
March 4, 2024
As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
…is why Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and the state legislature have been prioritizing family policy of late, including in the 2024 legislative session, which ended last week. Throughout the session,…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, is justly famous for underlining the importance of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” for our new nation in the Declaration of Independence….
February 16, 2024
Marriage is Key to Living Your Best Life
America is living in a time of rising anti-marriage sentiment. Voices on the political fringes—both left and right—claim that “there is no advantage to marriage in the Western world for…
February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…sense of sacredness leads not to depression and divorce court but to strong and satisfying unions—outside and inside the bedroom. Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at…