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March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…donors founded 11 universities that are today ranked among the nation’s top twenty, including such famous names as Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago. We’ve fallen out of…
March 11, 2024
Why Educators Often Have It Wrong About Right-Leaning Parents
Three decades ago, John Gray’s mega-hit book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, sold 15 million copies. The premise was simple: When we see the world in different ways, it’s…
March 7, 2024
Jamaal Bowman’s Voting Rights Hypocrisy
…by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman has even engaged in a hunger strike and been arrested while protesting the Senate’s failure to suspend the filibuster rule to pass the John R. Lewis…
March 5, 2024
The Societal Cost of the Marriage Decline
…not offering much leadership either, at least not in ways that count. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) argued in an interview last year that it is not society’s responsibility to help…
March 4, 2024
Exploring America’s Social Safety Net And The Political Fights Around It
…to work requirements and even to how poverty itself is defined and measured.During his State of the Union in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced an unconditional war on poverty…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
…public broadcasting is not immune from a market test. It has been 56 years since Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, which has gone virtually unchanged in the interim….
January 30, 2024
How Sensitive Are Single Mothers’ Work Decisions to a Change in Incentives? Correcting Misperceptions of the Evidence
…of economists that most would regard as being at the top of the field. It includes two John Bates Clark medalists (given to the top economist under 40), Congressional Budget…
January 17, 2024
A Midwest State of Mind
…Ohio River; Senator John C. Calhoun, in fact, regularly called the Northwest Ordinance a “sin against the South.” And it led to the creation of an extraordinary number of schools—not…
January 8, 2024
How to Actually Triumph over Poverty
On this day in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an unconditional war on poverty in America during his State of the Union address. Six decades later, the nation has…
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…Philip Johnson and Robert A.M. Stern. (Disney has sold off most of its holdings.) Not far from Seoul, the Songdo International Business District was developed by a consortium of real…