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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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?
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | Timothy Carney |Christopher J. Scalia |Yuval Levin |Brad Wilcox
Read the PDF. IntroductionAmerica is in a baby bust, with birth rates hitting record lows and still falling. Young Americans are getting married later and less. Meanwhile, parents face rising stress, and children suffer an epidemic of anxiety. The family is the fundamental building block of a society, as the cell is of an organism. A nation with increasingly fewer families has less social cohesion and less of a future.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
ifstudies.org | Grant Bailey |Brad Wilcox
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?
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
aei.org | Amitabh Chandra |Benedic Ippolito |Daniel Cox |Brad Wilcox
Federal policy can significantly alter drugmakers’ incentives, yet there is substantial debate about how various proposals will affect the development of new drugs. At this event, experts will present the latest research on how drug development responds to policy changes—including those introduced by the Inflation Reduction Act—and what that means for coming policy debates.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Chris Bullivant
President Trump signaled his commitment to making America “greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before” in his important Inaugural Address last week. Crucially, Trump made a personal commitment to fight for parents and their dreams for their children.
