The Promise of Family-Centric Tax Reform The weeks leading up to Tax Day, April 15, have always triggered a lot of groaning about the complexity and burden of the U.S. income tax, but in recent years the criticism has taken a new tack: that increasing numbers of Americans pay no income tax. The lament is […]
Read MoreHow the Pursuit of ‘Diversity’ Places the Military at Risk Americans who admire the United States military usually think of it as a conservative, traditional institution that maintains high standards, discipline, and core values unlike those of any institution in the civilian world. They might even think that the American military is a family-friendly institution. […]
Read MoreWhy ObamaCare Delivers the Wrong Family Medicine “When it comes to the cost of health care,” President Obama declared in 2009, “this much is clear: the status quo is unsustainable for families, businesses and government. America spends nearly 50 percent more per person on health care than any other country.” Americans indeed heard a great […]
Read MoreIf the study above, based upon the National Survey of Family Growth, does not deliver enough punches, a meta-analysis published the same month by psychologists at the State University of New York (Stony Brook) carries an even greater blow to the notion that shacking up before marriage is a good idea. Pulling together twenty-six studies […]
Read MoreIn greater numbers than ever, young American couples continue to fall for the bait-and-switch of premarital cohabitation. Summarizing data from the National Survey of Family Growth, a government report released in February indicates that the percentage of women ages 35 to 39 who had ever cohabited doubled in fifteen years: from 30 percent in 1987 […]
Read MoreWhile lamenting alleged sexism in the workplace for decades, the media have remained strangely quiet about the gender-specific impact of the recession that began in 2008. According a cover story in The Atlantic by Don Peck, the job losses of the past two years has turned into what others call a “he-cession,” which the deputy managing editor […]
Read More
You’re Teaching My Child What? A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Education and How They Harm Your Child Miriam Grossman, M.D. Regnery, 2009; 246 pages, $24.95 It used to be that with spring’s herald, a young man’s fancy turned to love. Now, he can celebrate April as STD Awareness Month. Clicking on the Centers […]
Read More
Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity Gary Cross Columbia University Press, 2008; 316 pages, $29.50 About a year ago when all the world was learning the lurid details of Tiger Woods’s sexual history, a history marked by depravity that was surpassed only by its immaturity, a lesser-known sports figure was also having romantic […]
Read More
Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element John D. Mueller ISI Books, 2010; 452 pages, $27.95 John Mueller’sRedeeming Economics is an impressive achievement, really three books in one. Mueller rewrites the history of economics in the first book. In the second book, Mueller expands the concerns of economics, in the light of his historical reinterpretation. The […]
Read More
We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future Matthew Spalding ISI Books, 2009; 267 pages, $26.95 This wonderfully lucid, judiciously penetrating, and most edifying book grew out of lectures that Matthew Spalding, a contributor to this journal, has delivered to politically minded young conservatives over the years. It is the best available […]
Read More