Writings

The thinker and the activist are irreconcilable roles. Here I explore why this is so, and why anyone claiming to be both, in journalism or academia, should be mistrusted.

Fertility decline among women is an opportunity-cost problem, not an affordability problem. The remedy isn't subsidy but restructuring policy so motherhood becomes not merely bearable, but a genuine advantage over peers.

No, they didn't. Traditional marriage was already dead, replaced by a sentimental, romantic form of marriage that gay couples joined. What conservatives lament as the loss of marriage is the loss of an institution whose real function was binding male resources to certain offspring, which collapsed long before Obergefell.

Theoretically, American academics should be more “free” to speak their minds than any other kind of professional, but we do not see fearless exploration from academics. Instead, they are unusually ideologically homogenous and risk-averse. I explore some reasons why tenure’s effects might be opposite of its design.

Men are the one demographic underrepresented in college and also underrepresented in aid — the only case where the majority receives more exclusive opportunity than the minority. I trace this to the actual mechanics of philanthropy.