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2 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Nicholas Eberstadt |Kevin Corinth |Brad Wilcox |Lyman Stone
Op-Ed Iran’s Seemingly Unstoppable Birth Slump Multimedia Global Population Decline and American Immigration Policy: Eberstadt at Garden State Immigration Policy Webinar Op-Ed A Baby Bonus Is the Wrong Response to Declining Fertility Op-Ed Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End Post Pro-Natalism Fails vs. Demographic Adaptation Article Progressive Pronatalism: A Quick Q&A With … Philosopher Victor Kumar Article Lessons on Birth Rates: Japan and South Korea Article Birth-Rate Worriers Should...
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3 weeks ago | 
ifstudies.org | Grant Bailey |Brad Wilcox
American men are in trouble. From Richard Reeves’ Of Boys and Men to Nicholas Eberstadt’s Men Without Work, we have learned that men are opting out of our most important institutions—work, education and family—in record numbers. But what or who is to blame for this male malaise?
Uncle Sam.
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Grant Bailey |Chris Bullivant |Grant R. Martsolf
Op-Ed Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise? Op-Ed Is the Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion? By | Chris Bullivant | Grant Martsolf Op-Ed What’s Holding Women Back from Starting a Family?
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3 weeks ago | 
deseret.com | Grant Bailey |Brad Wilcox
American men are in trouble. From Richard Reeves' " Of Boys and Men" to Nicholas Eberstadt's " MenWithout Work," we have learned that men are opting out of our most important institutions - work, education and family - in record numbers. But what or who is to blame for this male malaise? Uncle Sam.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Chris Bullivant |Grant R. Martsolf
It’s been just over 40 years since Springsteen’s bestselling Born in the USA came out in 1984 — an album with “a rowdy indomitable spirit,” as Debby Miller wrote in Rolling Stone at the time. The melodies suggested a deep optimism but the lyrics were primarily concerned with “people … getting left behind” full of foreboding of the fate of small-town America and the working class in the face of deindustrialization. Springsteen could see what was coming.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Brad Wilcox |Chris Bullivant
It’s been just over 40 years since Springsteen’s bestselling Born in the USA came out in 1984 — an album with “a rowdy indomitable spirit,” as Debby Miller wrote in Rolling Stone at the time. The melodies suggested a deep optimism but the lyrics were primarily concerned with “people … getting left behind” full of foreboding of the fate of small-town America and the working class in the face of deindustrialization. Springsteen could see what was coming.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Lyman Stone
Elon Musk told a conference in Saudi Arabia last year that his listeners “should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem [we] need to solve. If you don’t make new humans, there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.” In this way, he spotlighted his commitment to the pronatalist cause—the idea that society must do more to prevent population decline due to falling fertility rates.
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1 month ago | 
theatlantic.com | Lyman Stone |Brad Wilcox
Elon Musk told a conference in Saudi Arabia last year that his listeners “should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem [we] need to solve. If you don’t make new humans, there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.” In this way, he spotlighted his commitment to the pronatalist cause—the idea that society must do more to prevent population decline due to falling fertility rates.
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Joshua Katz |Frederick M. Hess |Howard Husock
As Christian Smith concluded in his 2014 book, The Sacred Project of American Sociology, “Sociology has at a deep level become . . . ‘a herd of independent minds.’” Few would dispute that the herd mentality has become pervasive in the past decade across the academic disciplines, and more so in sociology. What happened to the field? What are the bright spots today? And what trends are shaping this field’s future?
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Grant Bailey
Young liberal women are especially prone nowadays to reporting poor mental health. This was the discovery that Zach Goldberg made almost five years ago pouring over Pew data in the spring of 2020. Further research in 2022 found that depression had surged among liberal high school girls in the last decade-and-a-half, and much more so for them than other high schoolers, especially conservatives. Is this ideological gap in the mental health of liberal and conservative women still present?
