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What 1990s True-Crime Shows and Movies Teach about America Today0
- Culture
- January 16, 2019
“The more things change the more they stay the same.” Originally a French saying believed to have been coined in 1849, this phrase perfectly describes our current national obsession with revisiting the great media frenzies of the 1990s. In 2016 Americans relived the drama of the O.J. Simpson trial with the documentary O.J.: Made in
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The Man Who Created the German Economic Miracle0
- Economics
- January 16, 2019
On April 2, 1948, Ludwig Erhard, a little-known economist who had opposed Nazism, was appointed Director of the Economic Council of Bizonia, the territory resulting from the merger of the British and American occupied territories in post-WWII Germany. Few suspected that, only two months later, he would unleash the power of free markets and trigger
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Millennials: A Lost Generation Without the Booze and Jazz0
- Culture
- January 15, 2019
Older Americans love to typecast Millennials, the generation born between 1980 and 1996, as disengaged, indolent, and technologically hooked. For Millennials, social interaction involves hashtags, spiritual fulfillment requires podcasts, and a Sunday morning features cycles and yoga mats. They are also now the majority of America’s workforce, yet this Internet-raised demographic continues to puzzle employers.
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The Heart of the Matter: Families and Fatherhood0
- Culture
- January 15, 2019
In “Back To Discipline: Disparate Impact Reflects Disparate Reality”, Heather MacDonald applauds the Federal Commission on School Safety’s repudiation “of disparate-impact analysis.” She writes: Disparate-impact analysis holds that if a facially-neutral policy negatively affects blacks and Hispanics at a higher rate than whites and Asians, it is discriminatory. Noticing the behavioral differences that lead to
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How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.1
- Education
- January 15, 2019
When the question of how human beings are different from other animals comes up, scientists begin to display a disturbing handicap in answering it. The theory of evolution, whatever else might be said about it, seems to constrain their answers to ones of mere differences of degree. Humans, they say, are more this way or
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Here’s What Happens when the Gender-Gap Index Is Adjusted for Bias0
- Education
- January 15, 2019
The apparently neutral phrase, “gender inequality,” is not neutrally understood in our society. It normally conjures up women’s lower numbers in male-dominated corporate directorships and STEM professorships or other high-status domains that are in fact accessible only to a sliver of the male population, never mind the narrower female sliver. Social scientists allegedly strive for
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