Lyman Stone

2 weeks ago | cartoonshateher.com | Lyman Stone

A while ago, I announced that I was taking submissions for men who wanted to be featured in my men’s fashion survey, which I would be conducting with the help of , who knows way more about statistics than I do. Today, the survey is finally here! Thank you to all the men who submitted outfits.

3 weeks ago | ifstudies.org | Lyman Stone

Around the country, property taxes are one of the main ways that local governments finance things like police, schools, local roads, fire departments, and other services. As we laid out in a recent report, these kinds of basic government services are hugely important for families. More than almost anything else, Blue States’ failures to provide the kind of basic services that most families want is a key reason families are migrating away to Red states. Property taxes are often unpopular.

3 weeks ago | quillette.com | Lyman Stone

Men who have lots of babies with lots of different women seem to be having a moment right now. Between Elon Musk’s outspoken pronatalism and Andrew Tate’s penchant for sexual aggression, it’s easy to see how somebody might think that we may be about to enter a new social phase: the death of monogamy.

3 weeks ago | newgeography.com | Wendell Cox |Lyman Stone

There is considerable concern about housing affordability in the United States. Housing is the most expensive element of the cost of living, which makes it an important issue to both households and governments. Indeed, the high cost of housing relative to income (i.e. the degree of affordability) is an existential threat to the future of the middle-class in some housing markets (metropolitan areas), and even threatens to jeopardize the demographic future of the republic.

1 month ago | becomingnoble.substack.com | Johann Kurtz |Chris Williamson |Louise Perry |Lyman Stone

Last week I offered a brief five-century history of marriage to explain the accelerating bifurcation of relationships into those which are highly generative and those which are never produce children (‘Don’t pay people to get married’). One aside in that piece which people seemed to enjoy was an explanation for the odd reason that women now give for not pair-bonding: …the most common explanation that women offer if you ask why they’re not getting married: ‘the men are awful and unworthy’.