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March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…trend. The National Survey of Children’s Health, sponsored by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, has been fielded numerous times since 2003….
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…to get started. The current system isn’t suited to facilitate competition and creation. However, some form of oversight is necessary as a matter of fiduciary responsibility. The obvious solution is…
March 11, 2024
Why Educators Often Have It Wrong About Right-Leaning Parents
…about the fairness and safety of girls’ sports. Where you may see bigoted parents seeking to “whitewash” history, conservatives see a response to politicized materials that replace one-dimensional portrayals of America…
March 8, 2024
Jason Kelce, Family Man
In his tear-filled farewell speech, Jason Kelce brought his 13-year NFL career to a close by underlining what really mattered in life: marriage and family. The longtime Philadelphia Eagles player, who made the…
March 7, 2024
Growing Congressional Dysfunction Will Worsen Our Fiscal Problems
…this frustration is not to pretend that deficits don’t matter or ignore the challenge they pose — it’s for Washington to finally take deficits seriously and act to rein them in. Absent progress on bringing government spending…
March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…thrive psychologically, socially, and materially. Higher levels of education have long been associated with increased trust in others and greater participation in the relationships that create so-called “weak ties”—the “friend of a…
March 5, 2024
The Societal Cost of the Marriage Decline
…these couples decide not to marry. But it does matter. Marriage is positively associated with greater community involvement across a range of different activities. In our surveys, there is a…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…better demands maturity, civility, and mutual respect. But it also requires that we articulate the changes we would like to see and, equally important, the things we believe to be…
March 4, 2024
Teen Suicide and the Limits of Sociology
…“Having a strong shared moral center transforms mundane rituals like dropping kids off at school or attending soccer practice, and spectacular events, like rival matchups and homecoming games, into opportunities…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
…nothing matters for the State of Our Union than the state of our unions. When it comes to “life,” we’re witnessing tragic increases in what have been called “deaths of…