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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 12, 2024

Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization

…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

Millennials Are Doing Better than You Probably Think

…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

Another Flawed Analysis Shows that Single Mothers are Highly Sensitive to Changes in Work Incentives

…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

Child Tax Credit Bill Would Increase Marriage Penalties for Working Single Mothers

…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

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…