I had another dream, I had another life
GMU’s Bryan Caplan has an interesting 2012 post on reconciling the work of controversial political scientist Charles Murray. Caplan views Murray’s three main books on poverty–Losing Ground, The Bell Curve, Coming Apart–as complementary. To review: – Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 criticizes the welfare state for giving the poor perverse incentives. – The Bell … Read more
The Social Dilemma is a newly available documentary on Netflix about the peril of social networks. The documentary does a decent job of introducing some of the ways social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.) are negatively impacting society. If this is your entry point to the topic, you could do worse. But if you’re looking … Read more
This is part of What I’m Watching (sort of). I’ve fallen behind on my additions to What I’m Watching. Way behind. So, instead of doing longer posts like I’ve done in the past, I’m going to list all the series I’ve watched over the last several months with a brief synopsis and a few quick … Read more
A recent post at the IFS’s Family Studies blog has a nice summary of the individual and social benefits of healthy marriages. For those who have kept up with me over the years, this is a subject I spend quite a bit of time researching. Nonetheless, it’s nice to have it all in one spot. Here’s … Read more
Victimhood culture is turning social justice activism into a movement in pursuit of power instead of justice.