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1 week ago | 
ptbwrites.substack.com | Patrick Brown |Elliot Haspel |Ivana Greco |Darby Saxbe
Hello, friends. If it’s Friday, it’s Family Matters: The Main Event: Weighing Tariffs DOGE Day Afternoon: Measure Once, Cut Twice It’s Me, Hi: EWTN News Parting ShotsThe steelman case for pro-worker conservatives looking at the last two weeks of trade policy goes something like this: “Well, no, the rollout wasn’t smooth, but directionally, the White House is correct to try to fundamentally restructure the terms of global trade.
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1 month ago | 
ptbwrites.substack.com | Patrick Brown |Richard Hanania |Oren Cass |Richard Reeves
A happy early St. Patrick’s Day to everyone who is Irish, or Irish at heart. If it’s Friday, it’s Family Matters: The Main Event: Rightsizing the Department of Education Doesn’t Mean Shuttering ItIt’s Me, Hi: Family Studies Parting ShotsAfter two years of enjoyable and even affectionate disagreement between co-hosts Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada, and Michelle Cottle, the New York Times’ podcast “Matter of Opinion” recently closed its virtual doors.
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2 months ago | 
breakthroughjournal.org | Patrick Brown
By Patrick Brown“Los Angeles is burning, and accelerating hydroclimate whiplash is the key climate connection.”That was the first line of the UCLA Press Release on a recently-published Nature review paper Swain et al. (2025): Hydroclimate Volatility on a Warming Earth.
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2 months ago | 
breakthroughjournal.org | Patrick Brown |Roger Pielke Jr.
By Patrick Brown“Los Angeles is burning, and accelerating hydroclimate whiplash is the key climate connection.”That was the first line of the UCLA Press Release on a recently-published Nature review paper Swain et al. (2025): Hydroclimate Volatility on a Warming Earth.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
breakthroughjournal.org | Patrick Brown
By Patrick BrownA version of this article was originally published by City Journal, you can read that here. Devastating images are emerging out of the Los Angeles area depicting the immense destruction of several fires that are raging through communities this week. These fires are likely to be the costliest wildfires in US history, overtaking the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, California.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
ptbwrites.substack.com | Elliot Haspel |Patrick Brown |Clare Morell |Brad Littlejohn
Happy 2025! Before we begin, let’s keep those in my ancestral homeland affected by the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia and Kenneth fires, particularly those putting their lives on the line to bring them under control, in our thoughts and prayers. Now, we’re back to Family Matters.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
ptbwrites.substack.com | Elliot Haspel |Patrick Brown |Abigail Shrier |John Ganz
Discover more from Family MattersA weekly update on the policies and ideas that can better support parents and strengthen families as the essential building block of a healthy society...and one or two other things as well. Over 1,000 subscribersHappy 2025! Before we begin, let’s keep those in my ancestral homeland affected by the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia and Kenneth fires, particularly those putting their lives on the line to bring them under control, in our thoughts and prayers.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
breakthroughjournal.org | Patrick Brown
By Patrick BrownWeather and climate extremes—such as high temperatures, floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones, and severe thunderstorms—have always threatened both human and natural systems. Given their significant impacts, there is considerable interest in how human-caused climate change influences these extremes. This is the focus of the relatively new discipline of Extreme Event Attribution (EEA).
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
ptbwrites.substack.com | Patrick Brown
Family MattersA weekly update on the policies and ideas that can better support parents and strengthen families as the essential building block of a healthy society...and one or two other things as well. No thanks
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Patrick Brown
On [September 23rd, 2024], the New York Times ran a David Wallace-Wells column called “Our Adaptation to Global Warming Is Largely Fictional” featuring “a new, eye-opening paper,” entitled “Are We Adapting to Climate Change?” The paper purports to show that there is limited evidence of human adaptation to climate change across a wide range of sectors, including human deaths, agricultural productivity, crime, conflict, economic output, and damages from flooding and tropical cyclones.
