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They included too few subjects, they were not randomized, they did not properly compare the orders with alternatives, and judges were not even asked to record how they would otherwise have sentenced offenders. The culture of public service
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
American fears of continued government expansion and the relative prosperity of the nation have kept the initiation of long-term, large-scale social programs at bay. America has no national family financial allowance and allows more children to remain in poverty than does any other industrialized nation. It offers unmarried mothers less help with d
... See moreElizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
Throughout most of human history, people grew up enmeshed in dense family networks that knitted together distant cousins and in-laws. In these regulated-relational worlds, people’s survival, identity, security, marriages, and success depended on the health and prosperity of kin-based networks, which often formed discrete institutions known as clans
... See moreJoseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
defective resistance to criminal tendencies and temptations, due to that ill-balanced
Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
The assault on education began more than a century ago by industrialists and capitalists such as Andrew Carnegie. In 1891, Carnegie congratulated the graduates of the Pierce College of Business for being “fully occupied in obtaining a knowledge of shorthand and typewriting” rather than wasting time “upon dead languages.” The industrialist Richard T
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Starting in the 1960s, the social and legal institutions of America were remade to try to eliminate unfair choices by people in positions of responsibility. The new legal structures reflected a deep distrust of human authority in even its more benign forms—a teacher’s authority in the classroom, or a manager’s judgments about who’s doing the job, o
... See morePhilip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
The very frank responses to the Mosher surveys show that virtually all these women consciously managed family size by practicing contraception and limiting coital frequency. Compared to college-educated women of the same age in the 1955 Kinsey survey, they had sex only about half as often—about once a week, compared to nearly twice a week for the K
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
