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March 6, 2024
Caitlin Clark and Civil Society
…around the world. For her part, Caitlin Clark, upon setting the all-time college basketball scoring record this past weekend, might just as well have said, “This one’s for West Des…
March 4, 2024
Teen Suicide and the Limits of Sociology
…more stressful circumstances—poverty, war, abandonment seem like they would make suicide more likely than AP Physics. The problem is not the pressure per se. Tim Carney’s forthcoming Family Unfriendly and…
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
…back in the 1980s and 1990s—of the relationship between religion and sex obscure this important sociological truth: for most husbands and wives, more faith equals better sex. The next time…
February 14, 2024
Want To Slash Your Risk For Divorce? Start Going To Church
…religious believers who regularly attend church, synagogue, temple, and so on, several times a month or more. Their ties to their local religious communities and their faith generally endow their…
February 14, 2024
Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis
…the Wheatley Institute, unmarried adults aged 18-55 were twice as likely to say they are lonely “most of the time” or “all the time” as married adults (28% vs.14%). The…
February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…and Don’t Have Kids Are Getting Richer.” Or The Atlantic in 2019, offering “The Case Against Marriage.” Or, in 2021, The New York Times with “Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love.” In the Times piece,…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
During his time as the U.S. ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if he faced a choice between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
January 31, 2024
How Should State and Local Governments Respond to Illegal Retail Cannabis?
…time, as with tobacco, public health authorities should mount education campaigns to minimize marijuana use, in light of its demonstrated dangers. How-Should-State-and-Local-Governments-Respond-to-Illegal-Retail-CannabisDownload Introduction Legal cannabis has become a fact of…
January 16, 2024
Dry January Should Be Drug Free
…alcoholism contributes to premature deaths—but slowly and over time. The wave of drug overdoses has hit hard—and in the moment, as we rightly wring out hands about “deaths of despair.”…