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March 1, 2024
How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way
…On March 31, 1905, Chicagoans Jane Addams and Mary McDowell joined Lillian D. Wald, founder of New York’s Henry Street Settlement, and Edward T. Devine, editor of the journal Charities,…
February 23, 2024
After Milton’s MBTA Housing Defeat, The Way Forward Is With Persuasion, Not Mandates
…Morever, this should not be framed in racial terms: 16 percent of Milton’s residents are Black, and 15 percent are Asian American, Latino, or multiracial. There’s another way to get residents…
February 22, 2024
Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now
…7 percent to 15 percent among Asian students, from 11 percent to 24 percent among white students, from 16 percent to 36 percent among Hispanic students, and from 18 percent…
February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…the Smithian tradition discovered core “anthropological truths”—foremost, that people are by nature free, rational, self-interested, creative, and fallible, but also “sympathetic,” associational, and ethical. Smith, of course, is most well-known…
February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…impression that all because of an archaic Christian sexual ethic that forbids pornography, Christian men and communities are rife with “depression,” “unhappiness,” and disrupted marriages. The New Yorker mocked the books, small…
February 14, 2024
Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis
…of roughly three-quarters of a million people is the fourth-richest in the United States, with a median income of just under $150,000. And yet feelings of isolation have emerged as…
February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…is a bad deal for men in our egalitarian age. (He was also charged in 2023 with rape and human trafficking in Romania.) “I don’t think many men actually benefit from marriages…
February 13, 2024
The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
…in the civilian world, in part because of these benefits. My own, updated analysis of the General Social Survey (GSS) indicates that this pattern continues today. To be sure, some of this…
February 6, 2024
NYCHA Corruption Means It’s Time To Privatize
…lied about a vital public-health matter — conducting lead-paint inspections of apartments — we learn NYCHA supervisors solicited bribes in exchange for no-bid repair contracts. US Attorney Damian Williams charged 70 NYCHA…
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…off: The schools-ranking website Niche lists it as one of the best U.S. cities to live in. Today, with median housing values of $456,400 and median gross monthly rent of $1,723, the development is…