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August 7, 2023
Union Square Melee Proves Riots Have Little to Do with Real Political Grievances
The most revealing thing about Friday’s Union Square pop-up riot is that as police dispersed the mob, members started chanting, “Black Lives Matter.” Make no mistake: This was not a protest on…
August 5, 2023
Rent Control ‘Shabbifying’ NY’s Housing As Owners Feel the Squeeze
…matters even worse, barring rent increases for major improvements, lest they enable the alleged ill of gentrification. But the details of Gotham’s housing maintenance woes should get far more attention….
August 4, 2023
The Racial Wealth Gap: Myths and Realities
…mattered. Black people were viewed as a contagion.” Indeed, one study that comprehensively covered this issue concluded that the vast majority of black-owned housing were accurately classified. It concluded: “Our results…
August 3, 2023
Philanthropists Discover the Value of “Sunsetting”
…E. Simon and his wife Carol, the foundation has given away almost $300 million to the causes that mattered to them—faith, family and education. It has made some 13,000 grants…
August 2, 2023
The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage
…Other factors do matter — including income, educational achievement, race, and geography — but marital status is most influential when it comes to predicting happiness in the study. “This difference…
August 1, 2023
Can AI Make People Want to Have Children?
…images of themselves in wedding dresses or pregnant in maternity wear. Remini will even serve up family portraits showing the user with AI-generated babies.” In principle, of course, people have…
July 30, 2023
26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years
…expect the Department of Buildings, now targeting commercial property owners, to start levying those $10,000 fines on NYCHA, as well-deserved as they might be. They’d only make matters worse by…
July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
…the cost of those increases would be matched by unpopular payroll tax hikes on jobs. Once bottomless general revenues were tapped, the sky became the limit on benefit hikes. For…
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…because it was black. Paul Jones, a columnist for the city’s black newspaper, The Pittsburgh Courier, got to the heart of the matter in a way that could be applied to…
July 21, 2023
Why Freedom Conservatism Matters
…toward planning, toward tribal identity, toward arbitrary power, toward personalist rule. That is why Freedom Conservatism matters. The statement isn’t perfect. Hugh Hewitt observes that it ought to mention property rights. Andrew…