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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…
August 1, 2023
How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl
…things, then you’re going to have to have two earners. Because in the math, you mentioned 62 weeks, from one earner, that is not mathematically possible to do in a…
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 28, 2023
It Really Is More Expensive to Give Everyone $1 Than to Give Some People $1
In a piece from last year, Matt Bruenig of the People’s Policy Project argues (in the title of the piece) “Universal Benefits Cost Less Than Means-Tested Benefits.” He lays out his central…
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…
July 19, 2023
Americans Aren’t Buying Bidenomics—Because They’ve Heard the Lies Before
…2009 stimulus legislation would create millions of new jobs—which didn’t materialize. Indeed, that “recovery plan” resulted in 6.7 million fewer jobs than the Obama-Biden administration forecast in a 2009 report Biden’s new…
July 18, 2023
Yet More Absurdities in Biden’s Housing Policy
…make matters worse, as long as funds remain, a borrower may claim this payment supplement every five years, which means that it could be re-upped just when the prior supplement…
July 17, 2023
The Latest Extraordinary Findings on Pandemic Improper Payments
…example, agencies can enter into Computer Matching Agreements, which permit federal agencies to conduct data matches with one another to establish or verify personal information. [Page 12] 8. Even verifying Social…