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September 18, 2023
There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density
…a single parcel of land, LTD is both naturally affordable and naturally inclusionary, creating upward mobility naturally through a more accessible housing market. All it takes is repealing the laws…
September 18, 2023
Biden’s Latest Student-Loan Plan Is Another Disaster
Late last month, President Biden and his Department of Education announced the launch of the “SAVE” Plan, a reform that expands existing income-driven repayment (IDR) programs to the tune of up to $550 billion. Now,…
September 15, 2023
Why Industrial Policy Fails
…combined with fighting climate change, advancing progressive social goals, and protecting US national security. What should the US do instead? First, to safeguard national security, it should identify a narrow…
September 14, 2023
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…In regard to the former, the National Assessment for Educational Progress (a.k.a. the Nation’s Report Card) reports reams of educational data disaggregated by race, gender, geography, and other usual-suspect categories….
September 1, 2023
Paying People to Have Kids Can Only Do So Much When You’re in a Spiraling Baby Bust
…very low, and nowhere near replacement level. Hungary’s population is still falling every year. China, since abandoning its anti-natal policies, has tried going pro-natal. That hasn’t worked, and China’s population is…
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
…what is the reason so many young people are leaving religion? There’s no single answer, but the most compelling explanation is that changes in American family life precipitated this national…
July 18, 2023
The Great Recession, COVID-19, Interest Hikes Left a 15-Year Mark on Housing
…fewer mortgages than in any of the past five years. National data indicate that these higher interest rates have decreased the number of home loans originated overall. What lies ahead? What…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
Last month, I took advantage of a trip to the U.K. to spend a day observing at London’s legendary Michaela School, which serves about 800 students ages eleven to 18, a…
June 30, 2023
It’s Time to End Legacy Admissions
The Supreme Court’s decision in the UNC and Harvard cases was received, as most news is these days, in two quite different ways on the two sides of our political…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…schools, the charter school system, and Catholic schools. One way to judge the share of sufficiently-skilled Black students is to look at eighth-grade skill evaluations in the Nation’s Report Card….