Are conservatives happier than liberals? Yes, according to Arthur C. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness and president of the American Enterprise Institute. Writing for the New York Times he notes: “Scholars on both the left and right have studied this question extensively, and have reached a consensus that it is conservatives who possess the
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When it comes to financial issues, millennials increasingly feel like they are receiving the short end of the stick. Particularly when they look at their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. As it turns out, millennials haven’t been imagining things. A new survey by The Guardian shows that millennials are indeed experiencing a decline in wealth: “Where
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The idea of children being indoctrinated through education is repugnant to most Americans. But in the Islamic State, it’s a normal part of life in schools, as a new report from The Quilliam Foundation shows. Entitled The Children of Islamic State, the report studied the use of children in Islamic propaganda between August 2015 and
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There’s a fascinating little chart in today’s Washington Post which records how American couples met their spouses. The most striking thing about the chart is the recent rapid rise in online introductions, which seems to correspond with the recent decrease in meeting spouses through friends or co-workers. But there’s another trend line in the chart
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In a post last weekend, I argued that teleological moral theory, while understandably popular, falls short in two ways: It asks us to play God, and would license any horrible act when that would seem to contribute to overall human well-being. Deontological theories—from the Greek deon, meaning “duty”?—address these problems. Broadly speaking, deontological theories entail
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Suburban life tends to get a bad rap these days. Some of it is undoubtedly due to a shortsighted failure to take into account deficiencies in modern urban life. But is some of the criticism of suburbia justified? In his 20th century classic The City in History, Lewis Mumford points out that suburbs are by
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