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August 16, 2023
How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah
…a visiting scholar at the Sutherland Institute. Derek Monson is chief growth officer at the Sutherland Institute. David Bass is the director of communications for the Institute for Family Studies….
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
…2020, David Brooks wrote about the disintegration of traditional family life that featured large, interconnected networks of extended family members—grandparents, in-laws, cousins, nieces, and nephews. Brooks argues that extended families, composed of…
August 4, 2023
The Racial Wealth Gap: Myths and Realities
…1933 to 1977. However, Brookings Institute researchers Andre M. Perry and David Harshbarger rejected the Harris-Warren initiative because only 28 percent of current residents in formerly redlined neighborhoods are black. They claimed…
August 2, 2023
The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage
Americans who are married with children are now leading happier and more prosperous lives, on average, than men and women who are single and childless. Is that statement surprising? In an age…
July 18, 2023
The Education Community’s Views on School Improvement Have Fundamentally Changed
…and demanding. None of it envisioned any fundamental alterations to the schoolhouse as understood by Horace Mann or the architects of David Tyack’s One Best System. One consequence was that, especially…
June 28, 2023
Yes, College Is Still a Good Investment
…Harvard economist David Deming shows that college education remains a worthwhile investment for long-term economic returns. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Deming…
June 22, 2023
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
…ability to use technology for humanity’s benefit and offered concrete steps we can take, such as promoting norms of risk assessment and accountability in science and technology. —David Veldran and…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…up. In 2001, David Brooks argued that one of the big differences between Red and Blue America was that the denizens of Red America are not constantly faced with things…
June 16, 2023
Marriage Is Still the Best Way to Bond a Father to His Children
…born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, MIT researcher David Autor found that, relative to their sisters, boys born to low-education and unmarried mothers, raised in low-income neighborhoods, and enrolled at…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
Download the Dataset When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his seminal Democracy in America lauding the strength of American communities, institutions, and associations, he noted the unique status of religion. Religion,…