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August 14, 2023
Tracking Plans to Make Pandemic Benefit Expansions Permanent
In 2008, former White House Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel famously said what has come to be known as Rahm’s rule: “You never want a serious crisis to go to…
August 14, 2023
The Narcissism of Small Diffidences
…for it, and keep earning it. Only then will you matter in this house, at this school, in this world.” Teaching kids that they matter is hard to do in…
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…
June 11, 2023
Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects
…fail. For men and women who have similar political views, forming a bond with a mate is simplified. But for those with very different political views, matching is a tougher…
June 9, 2023
Schools Use Racist “Reparations Math” to Indoctrinate Black Students with Victimization
…level on the mathematics assessment. In states like Illinois, in 2022, only 8% of Illinois Black eighth graders were NAEP Proficient or above in math. That, despite the fact that in…
June 7, 2023
The Price We’ll Pay For Our AI Future: More Loneliness
…destructive or selfish behavior. As I argued in a recent newsletter, this kind of one-way relationship is a poor substitute for traditional friendship: The relationships that matter are formative. They change…
May 1, 2023
Closing Young Minds
…children being segregated into racial affinity groups. According to students I spoke with, during a mandatory school assembly, students were told that requiring transgender athletes to play on teams matching…
January 20, 2022
Testimony: Incentivize Individual Agency to Achieve Upward Mobility
…needed remediation in math and reading – if they did go to college. We cannot ignore that the racial disparities we are seeking to close originated long before they show…