AEI Society and Culture: Experts, highlights, and headlines

Society and culture scholars

Arthur Brooks President Research areas: Culture, politics, and economic life in America, Philanthropy

 

Ramesh Ponnuru Visiting Fellow Research areas: Health care policy, economic policy, Constitutionalism

 

W. Bradford Wilcox Visiting Scholar Research areas: Child wellbeing, Impact of family structure on economic growth

Charles Murray W.H. Brady Scholar Research areas: Marriage, family, and social mores, Crime, Social structure

 

Christina Hoff-Sommers Resident Scholar Research areas: Feminism & American culture, Morality, Adolescents

Headlines and Highlights

In today’s social science, wishing makes it so
Charles Murray, AEIdeas
In an academic study that has been getting a lot of press, authors used brain scans to demonstrate that the surface area of the cerebral cortex of poor children was 6% smaller than those of affluent families. Their conclusion was that poverty was the causal factor. I’m baffled by this confidence that poverty is the cause.

Trigger warnings demean feminism: Here’s why
Christina Hoff Sommers
What exactly are trigger warnings and are they something we should welcome? AEI Scholar Christina Hoff Sommers gives you the facts.

Andy Warhol as a guide to trade
Arthur Brooks, The New York Times
If it is progress against poverty that we’re pursuing, trade beats the pants off every fancy development program ever devised. The simple mundane beauty of making things and exchanging them freely is the best anti-poverty achievement in history.

Don’t be a bachelor: Why married men work harder and smarter and make more money 
Bradford Wilcox, The Washington Post
Marriage has a transformative effect on adult behavior, emotional health, and financial well-being—particularly for men.

Tim Cook needs to do some homework
Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg View
Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple, is spreading misinformation about a new religious-freedom law in Indiana.

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