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  • Three Charts Showing How Childbearing Varies Across the US

    Three Charts Showing How Childbearing Varies Across the US0

    Falling U.S. fertility rates have been making headlines. These reports tend to focus on a single measure: the average number of children that women have, nationally. However, this one number masks large and interesting variation in people’s childbearing behavior. The National Survey of Family Growth – one of the best sources of information on this

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  • Owner of Historic Boston Restaurant Says Minimum Wage Hikes Hastened Its Demise

    Owner of Historic Boston Restaurant Says Minimum Wage Hikes Hastened Its Demise0

    Durgin-Park, a renowned Boston restaurant, has been around for a long time. It opened in 1827, when Massachusetts’ own John Quincy Adams was president of the United States. Phil Klein of the Washington Examiner wrote: “The restaurant, located in Boston’s Faneuil Hall, was an institution and tourist attraction, serving New England staples, such as chowder, shepherd’s

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  • Are We Witnessing the End of the Bitcoin Era?1

    The Bitcoin revolution seemed unstoppable. Despite suffering multiple large corrections over the last years, Bitcoin’s price kept reaching new highs until almost surpassing the $20,000 threshold, something unimaginable when Bitcoin emerged in 2009. I remember watching in 2015 the documentary The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, whose title may now look pretentious, but at the

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  • The Rich Never Actually Paid 70 Percent

    The Rich Never Actually Paid 70 Percent0

    Several Washington commentators kicked off the 116th Congress by rallying behind a newly proposed 70 percent top marginal income tax rate on the wealthiest earners. The 70 percent tax rate figures prominently in the financial equation behind the “Green New Deal” proposal championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. While a tax hike of this level is

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  • The Feminist Fantasy: Strong Women, Weak Men, No Children

    The Feminist Fantasy: Strong Women, Weak Men, No Children0

    Writer Andrew Davies, who has won general acclaim for his television adaptations of historical novels, including most famously Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, has complained in a new BBC 4 documentary that ‘it is now “compulsory” to have a leading lady capable of fending for herself’, and ‘jokes that he now finds himself “pleading” to write

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  • School Security Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. Is There a Better Way to Protect Children?

    School Security Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. Is There a Better Way to Protect Children?0

    U.S. taxpayers spend nearly $700 billion each year on K-12 public schooling and that eye-popping sum shows no sign of slowing. In fact, as more non-academic programs get adopted in schools across the country, the price-tag for mass schooling continues to swell even as achievement lags.   One ballooning school expenditure is the vast amount

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  • Mr. Rogers: Responsible for the Entitlement Culture?

    Mr. Rogers: Responsible for the Entitlement Culture?0

    The documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? deservedly made many lists of 10 best movies of 2018. It is a riveting film on the power of love. Years after his death, interest in the work of Fred Rogers grows. Tom Hanks plays Mr. Rogers in the movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which is slated for a 2019

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  • Falling IQ Scores Suggest We’re Getting Dumber. Can We Reverse Course?

    Falling IQ Scores Suggest We’re Getting Dumber. Can We Reverse Course?0

    Are we getting dumber? Apparently so. In a June 2018 issue of Newsweek, Scottie Andrew reported the following: “A Norwegian study published Monday found a seven-point dip in IQ test scores per generation among men born from 1962 to 1991. The results suggest a reversal in the Flynn effect, an observed increase in IQ scores throughout

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  • Why Elizabeth Gilbert’s Ideas about Happiness in Eat Pray Love are Wrong

    Why Elizabeth Gilbert’s Ideas about Happiness in Eat Pray Love are Wrong0

    As the year begins, many will embark on a self-improvement project. Elizabeth Gilbert’s mega-selling memoir Eat Pray Love has inspired millions towards a journey of self-discovery. Many believe Gilbert is wise. Gilbert made the Time Magazine list of 100 most influential people in the world, and she was named to Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 list of

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