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March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…access to higher education and reaped the benefits in terms of higher GDP and living standards. Education, then, feeds human capital development, the complex mix of education, skills, and social connection on which free markets depend for growth. To…
March 6, 2024
It’s Time to Scrap the Federal Student Loan Program
…should also be required to benchmark employee benefits, overhead, and administrative ranks against private sector norms, with student eligibility for federal loans contingent on acceptable performance. Moreover, institutions whose students…
February 23, 2024
Study What You Love or Study What Will Make You Money?
…The full answer isn’t found by focusing on the “either” or the “or” but to look at both. While parents and students need to keep one eye on the market,…
February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…market orthodoxy. The downsides, he says, are both real and grave. He acknowledges that free-market advocates have often oversold their case, making predictions—about growth, peace, and China—that have either not…
February 20, 2024
Planning a Career in the Age of AI
…top of the “critical skills” list while proficiency in STEM and basic computer and software skills have dropped to the bottom. That’s an important market signal. We should pay attention…
February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…temptations. Religious married men are markedly less likely to use pornography than their secular peers, according to the 2022 State of Our Unions Survey. Only 35 percent of religious husbands have…
February 14, 2024
Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis
…to say about marriage and childbearing, even though there is no group of Americans less lonely than married parents. As we mark this romantic day, more young and middle-aged single…
February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…marketing in her twenties over finding the one, and is now in her mid-thirties and regretting that strategy. If she could go back in time, she told me, “I would…
February 13, 2024
The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
…by the notion that family diversity—the idea that all family forms are equally valid and valuable for kids—is a mark of moral progress in society. The phenomenon of people in…
February 9, 2024
Don’t Buy the Soulmate Myth
…shows and books, from the latest offerings on the Hallmark Channel to Elizabeth Gilbert’s mega-bestseller, “Eat, Pray, Love.” This model is based on the idea of finding a “soulmate”—that special…