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February 20, 2024
…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
…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
…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
…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
…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 12, 2024
…Moderator: Ian Rowe, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 6:15 p.m. Q&A 6:30 p.m. Adjournment Related Content Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization W….
February 12, 2024
…calculating the percent change in median income from each generation to the next. The goal: to gauge economic mobility by determining whether each generation as a whole has surpassed the…
February 8, 2024
…and consistent with elasticity estimates in Bastian’s own work. Bastian begins by calculating the mean across working single mothers of their average tax rate, doing so in every year from…
February 7, 2024
…SNAP benefit parameters that took effect starting October 1, 2023, and we assume shelter costs of $1,146 per month for a single parent without children (median gross rent for 1…
February 6, 2024
…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…