Employment

“A neighborhood in which people are poor but employed is different from a neighborhood in which people are poor and jobless.” – William Julius Wilson

Individual Moralities

“The Union can stay divided because slavery is an issue everyone can decide for themselves personally and therefore don’t need to argue about.” – Stephen A. Douglas

Government Largesse

“In the first hundred days of his presidency Barack Obama proposed spending $12 billion on community colleges, which, if it had passed Congress, would only have resulted in more states deciding that firemen and state troopers must learn how to put their footnotes in...

Exploitation

“The Marxian message of ‘exploitation’ helped sweep communists into power in countries around the world in the twentieth century, at a pace and on a scale seldom seen in history. There is clearly a political market for that message, and communists are just one of the...

Two Whales

“To address the widespread anxiety in this generation, there are two whales—two big things that schools could do using mostly resources they already have. These are phone-free schools and more free play.” – Jonathan Haidt