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May 2, 2024
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
More than a quarter of America’s school-aged children were absent from school 10 percent or more of the time last year. There’s no shortage of explanations on offer for this…
May 2, 2024
Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education
…virtues of the Constitution. The amount of actual agreement is obscured by a conflict-fueled online culture, polarizing politics, and the fact that Americans don’t spend enough time talking to those who think…
May 1, 2024
The closing of the American heart
…from intact families are about four times more likely to graduate from college than they are to spend any time incarcerated. Clearly, marriage and stable families seem to matter for…
April 30, 2024
I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising
…as has Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn. Don’t expect these bills to go far, however. As Jesse Walker has observed in Reason Magazine, such efforts have been tried—and failed—multiple times…
April 29, 2024
New “Scorecard” Report Promotes Better Use of Data to Prevent Unemployment Fraud
…outdated and overwhelmed administrative systems proved incapable of keeping up with a massive surge in demand for claims, including from criminals bent on defrauding the system. Everyone from small-time crooks…
April 26, 2024
Washington, District of Benefit Cliffs
…nation and “has lifted” time limits altogether, providing welfare checks “in perpetuity.” Those policy choices increase the degree to which DC’s safety net too often discourages the type of consistent…
April 26, 2024
Human Capital Spillovers and Health: Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?
…and more negative beliefs about smoking. These have translated over time into a population that smokes noticeably less and that is less obese, leading to increasing divergence in health outcomes…
April 23, 2024
Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates
…minister of state for universities and science. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued that “in countries that support working mothers, like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and France, birthrates are basically fine.”…
April 22, 2024
John Silber, the Campuses Have Need of You
…South Africa, they will know how wrong apartheid is and that something must be done. At the time, BU was sponsoring a program to provide scholarships to black South African…
April 21, 2024
The Real Bias at NPR: Story Selection
…choose.” When Gans did his study of television network news — at the time, there were only three half-hour network newscasts — he found little variety in story selection. With…