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As a working woman, I’m offended by California’s new law requiring corporate boards to consist of up to half female members by 2021. Proponents of the law praise it as “glass ceiling-shattering.” But having the ceiling dropped down on women through mandatory gender quotas is hardly the same feat as climbing to new heights on their own
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If you thought racial identity politics were just a fleeting flirtation of the radical left, California’s new laws suggest otherwise. On Sept. 30, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into state law a bill setting up a nine-member board to study the amount of reparations that should be owed to black people for slavery and Jim
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Last week I saw a C.S. Lewis quote shared on social media. I’d seen this quote from his essay “On Living in an Atomic Age” before, but shrugged it off as a nice thought that didn’t really apply any more. Never mind. Swap out “atomic bomb” for “coronavirus” and the relevance of the quote becomes
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What makes for a good book? There are many possible answers: beautiful prose, interesting characters, a well-crafted plot, and so on, all of which contribute to literature’s power to make us feel or experience things in new and different ways. For some, though, a good book is one that aligns perfectly with the reader’s political
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In 1986, the San Diego Border Patrol sector accounted for approximately one-third of all apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border. Today, it accounts for only a small fraction. How did the region go from one of the busiest sectors for illegal border crossings to one of the most secure? In our latest edition of “Underreported,” The
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A study in the Royal Economic Society’s Economic Journal recently confirmed something we’ve long suspected: books in the home make a huge difference for children as they grow older. According to The Guardian, researchers looked at earnings and years of education when studying several thousand men in various European countries in the early to mid-1900s.
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