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August 1, 2023
Can AI Make People Want to Have Children?
Self-help gurus love to tell people to visualize their goals. Tony Robbins says, “Starting your day without visualizing your goal is like starting your day without breakfast.” In this space,…
July 25, 2023
What Relationship Outsourcing Says About Our Culture
…romantic partners, children and friends is only the latest symptom of a growing problem. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Deseret News contributor…
July 17, 2023
The Problem with Lived Experience
“The shift among nonprofits and funders towards valuing lived experience has been a journey,” Anna Verghese, executive director of the Audacious Group, told the Chronicle of Philanthropy earlier this spring….
July 16, 2023
When Office Perks Become Perils
…Dungeons and Dragons with their fampanies. Naomi Schaefer Riley, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Independent Women’s Forum, is the author of No Way to Treat a…
July 15, 2023
Yonkers’ Only Charter School Illustrates Just How Broken the System Is
To what lengths will teachers’ unions and their allies go to destroy charter schools? Eduardo LaGuerre and Sobeida Cruz are in the process of finding out. The couple raised their…
July 8, 2023
Why the End of Affirmative Action Is Good for Black Science Students
“Corporate diversity in the crosshairs.” That was a typical headline after last week’s Supreme Court decision declaring the use of racial preferences in college admissions unconstitutional. Panic has set in among the chattering…
July 3, 2023
Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer
University of Houston professor Alan Dettlaff is the founder of upEND, a movement dedicated to abolishing child protective services and foster care because of their alleged systemic racism. Dettlaff is active…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
How much do we have in common with our children and grandchildren? Less than our parents had in common with us—or at least that’s the theory animating Jean M. Twenge’s…
June 2, 2023
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
In her recent Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver describes the situation of a young boy whose father dies before he is born. His mother struggles with addiction, but Demon…
May 31, 2023
Children Are Dead Because Activists Say It’s Racist for ACS to Act
When a child is found dead with bruises on her wrists and torso, the first question is always: Were there warning signs? In the case of 6-year-old Jalayah Eason, the answer…