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October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…a problem you can’t measure. That’s not to say we know nothing about certain aspects of our worsening social poverty problem. Robert Putnam documented the decline of clubs and civic institutions, the Joint…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…important understanding of the actual content of the studies themselves.) The economists Robert C. Feenstra, Hong Ma, and Yuan Xu attempt to estimate the effects of trade openness on both…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…family.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., parodied those answers at a recent rally in Michigan: “All you have to know is seven words, and you never have to admit to doing…
September 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…a particular community have for young people growing up there. Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute, highlighted one of the study’s implications on crafting social welfare policy: “There is a…
June 15, 2024
Reimagining Early Education
…Conservative sociologist Robert Nisbet wrote: “Pluralist society is free society exactly in proportion to its ability to protect as large a domain as possible that is governed by the informal,…
May 8, 2024
Beltway Liberals Are Playing Name Games to Expand the Welfare State
…Longtime policy expert Robert Greenstein suggested this group is constituted of “poor, non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive disability benefits.” Naturally, proponents didn’t offer the…
April 11, 2024
The “Case for Curriculum” Is about Reducing Teachers’ Workload
Last weekend, I gave a talk at the U.S. ResearchEd conference in Greenwich, Connecticut, on “The Case for Curriculum,” based on a paper I wrote for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which was published this week at The…
March 31, 2024
Can Local Journalism Be Saved?
…project is ambitious in scope and complex in design. Participants in the so-called NewsMatch program, including the MacArthur, Ford, Carnegie, Robert Wood Johnson, and Hewlett Foundations, join the New York Times to…
March 14, 2024
The “No Excuses” Model Is Due for a Renaissance
In a dispatch over the weekend, the New York Times took note of the rise of “super strict schools in England,” marked by “strict routines and detentions,” silent corridors, and “zero-tolerance” policies for even…
March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…Few people would question the idea that regularly eating together promotes family closeness and affection. Unfortunately, research by the eminent scholar of social capital, Robert Putnam, indicates that the share…