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January 2018

January 22, 2018

Girls rule, boys drool – again?

Here's a report from the Daily Mail: "Oxford University extends time for maths and computer...

January 19, 2018

Q: What will happen to Social Security benefits when the Trust Fund is exhausted?

A. Nothing. Yes, maybe in the meantime, we'll get a full-on reform of the system. ...

January 19, 2018

What would an immigration policy designed for the future look like?

"Robots will take away all of the unskilled jobs. In order to support a family,...

January 18, 2018

Jane the Actuary’s opinion on illegal immigration

Every so often I feel like I need to type this up: what I'd like...

January 18, 2018

SROs and the line between fit and unfit housing

I'll start by saying that I've always considered SROs, single-room occupancy hotels, that is, to...

January 17, 2018

The Senate DACA bill: not a compromise

By which I mean this: Three Republican and three Democratic Senators have been working on...

January 15, 2018

More on brain drains (because, yes, I’m a nerd)

So the other day I wrote about the "brain drain" and vaguer "ambition drain" issue...

January 13, 2018

Have you taken an ancestry-type DNA test?

and, if so, what did you learn? I got the results back from my own...

January 12, 2018

Brain (and other) drains

The conventional wisdom on immigration from a place like El Salvador is clear: the country...

January 11, 2018

Sh**hole hypocrisy

In the news: "Trump derides protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries," at the Washington Post....

January 10, 2018

Will you visit the Obama museum?

In the paper today, "Revised Obama center design seeks better fit with park and answer...

January 09, 2018

Some questions for agers-in-place — and movers, too

So the other day I griped about aging-in-place, that is, staying in the Sacred Family...

January 07, 2018

Pretzel-making, or, fear not the lye!

If there's one thing that's ubiquitous in Germany but scarcely available here, it's pretzels. Sure,...

January 07, 2018

On legalizing pot

I wrote on twitter yesterday, The funny thing is, I have no strong opinion on...

January 04, 2018

Quiz: when is a family not a family?

Answer: when it's a certain type of policymakers talking about women's earnings, employment, and retirement....

January 02, 2018

White trash, Reader’s Digest, and tribalism

Richard Reeves' Dream Hoarders, which I "book-reported" over the summer, writes about various ways in...

January 02, 2018

About Sensitivity Readers

When I was a middle- and high-schooler, I read a lot of James Michener novels...

January 01, 2018

It’s the governance, stupid! My recommended resolution for the Illinois state legislature

Imagine if your local school district promised its teachers generous raises -- well in excess...

December 2017

December 30, 2017

I’m sorry, but “aging in place” is still is a piece of *@!%

Or, when public policy and family issues intersect. A recent article in the Tribune, "'You...

December 29, 2017

Is there a “retirement crisis”?

So I'd been thinking, off and on, about the arguments that researcher Andrew Biggs has...

December 26, 2017

No blank slate: the problem with “tax reform”

In the news today, "Charities worry tax law will cut giving." As it happens, this...

December 26, 2017

So about this “Jesus was born in the spring” idea . . .

Two articles that came across my twitter feed recently: "Biological evidence that Jesus actually was...

December 24, 2017

Welcome, Chreasters!

Chreasters, if you're not familiar with the phrase, are those people who show up for...

December 23, 2017

How much would you pay?

To read an article in the Times, or the Post, or the WSJ? In the...

December 23, 2017

Do your kids believe in Santa Claus?

Really, this is just an invitation for reader comments. At what age, if you have...

December 22, 2017

It’s Plätzchen time!

It's cookie-baking time, or, specifically, Plätzchen-baking time, traditional German Christmas cookies. These are not super-sugary. It's...

December 21, 2017

The Six Day War was 50 years ago. Get over it.

Today, the UN voted by a margin of 128 - 9, with 35 abstentions, "in...

December 21, 2017

From the twitter feed: campus outrage, fragile-child parenting, and obesity

Three articles that I wanted to share, each of which doesn't individually merit its own...

December 20, 2017

Let’s not demonize private schools

So in my twitter feed today was a New York Times editorial lamenting the benefit...

December 17, 2017

American (Religious) Exceptionalism

Well, what do you know? I'm not the only one staring at GSS data on...

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