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May 6, 2024
Generation Z Has Problems Compared to Past Generations, but Money Isn’t One
…expand beyond Gaza into a story of a broader struggle and trauma this generation has endured. This contention, that Generation Z has grown up in a uniquely difficult time, is widespread. Walking…
May 4, 2024
Make Parents Pay for Kids Who Miss School To Curb Chronic School Absenteeism
…time to remember that a child’s school attendance is first and foremost a parent’s responsibility — and a stick as well as a carrot can be deployed. Under the state’s…
May 2, 2024
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
More than a quarter of America’s school-aged children were absent from school 10 percent or more of the time last year. There’s no shortage of explanations on offer for this…
May 2, 2024
Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education
…virtues of the Constitution. The amount of actual agreement is obscured by a conflict-fueled online culture, polarizing politics, and the fact that Americans don’t spend enough time talking to those who think…
May 1, 2024
The closing of the American heart
…from intact families are about four times more likely to graduate from college than they are to spend any time incarcerated. Clearly, marriage and stable families seem to matter for…
April 30, 2024
I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising
…as has Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn. Don’t expect these bills to go far, however. As Jesse Walker has observed in Reason Magazine, such efforts have been tried—and failed—multiple times…
April 23, 2024
Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates
…minister of state for universities and science. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued that “in countries that support working mothers, like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and France, birthrates are basically fine.”…
April 22, 2024
John Silber, the Campuses Have Need of You
…South Africa, they will know how wrong apartheid is and that something must be done. At the time, BU was sponsoring a program to provide scholarships to black South African…
April 21, 2024
The Real Bias at NPR: Story Selection
…choose.” When Gans did his study of television network news — at the time, there were only three half-hour network newscasts — he found little variety in story selection. With…
April 18, 2024
The Real Story Behind Food Insecurity in the US
…time that the federal government has more than tripled its spending on food assistance programs, the share of US households deemed “food insecure” has increased. Before spending even more money, we should…