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May 19, 2023
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: America Today
…notoriously got the idea of the American system of justice backwards, when she said in March that President Trump, in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case, would have a chance to…
May 10, 2023
AI Tutoring Has a Lot to Offer. But so Does Human Mentoring.
…Fisher and Daniel Fisher explore how schools can expand students’ access to relationships that might otherwise be out of reach, noting that students can now hear virtually from a range…
May 4, 2023
The Social Breakdown: The Poverty of Family, Community, and Religious Life in America
On May 4, AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility (COSM) hosted the launch of “The Social Breakdown,” a new research series dedicated to the study of social capital. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SWmPhcul8NE…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
…and areas with many mainliners the best. Sociologists have observed these trends in prior work, including our colleague, W. Bradford Wilcox. Wilcox argues that mainline adherents tend to “talk left…
April 25, 2023
A Debate on Fatherhood
…of the National Marriage Project at UVA, W. Bradford Wilcox moderated the discussion between Reeves and Rowe that explores the question, “Does strengthening fatherhood depend on renewing marriage in America?”…
March 2, 2023
The Lost World of Ecumenical Republicanism
…Nixon’s Surprising Social Policy deserves a place in the pantheon of gossipy Washington micro-histories. Its author, John Roy Price, served in the Nixon White House under the tutelage of Daniel Patrick…
February 2, 2023
Prioritizing Money Over Marriage, Today’s Parents Are Making a Big Mistake
As parents of teens, we have kids who are beginning to think about their adult future—including college, career and family. One recent conversation Alysse had with her 17-year-old daughter is…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…success. Wendy Wang is the director of research at the Institute for Family Studies. Brad Wilcox is a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, a nonresident senior fellow at the…
January 5, 2023
Faith After the Pandemic: How COVID-19 Changed American Religion
Key Points The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated an overall decline in religious attendance, although religious identity remained mostly stable. The number of Americans who never attend religious services jumped over the…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…in the black community, has also grown significantly in the low-income white population. When Daniel Patrick Moynihan sounded the alarm over the breakdown of the black family in 1965, unmarried…