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Pursuit of Happiness
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January 26, 2025
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Jeff Rosen on What “The Pursuit of Happiness” Meant to America's Founders

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How to Save Our Urban Centers

What will the future of American cities look like?

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National Poll from Civitas Institute: Americans Concerned About AI, Economic Issues

The Civitas Institute Poll, conducted from March 11-20, 2025, asked 1,200 Americans an array of questions about how things are going in the country.

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Divorce, Family Arrangements, and Children's Adult Outcomes

This paper uses linked tax and Census records for over 5 million children to examine how divorce affects family arrangements and children's long-term outcomes.

Andrew C. Johnston
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Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road To Four-Year College Success

Despite a relatively rich literature on the community college pathway, the research base on the quality differences between these institutions has been decidedly thin.

Scott Carrell, Michal Kurlaender
Pursuit of Happiness
Feb 7, 2025
Stanford’s Graduate Student Union Tries to Stifle Dissent

The university may fire me because I won’t pay dues to a labor organization whose views I find repugnant.

Jonathan Hartley
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The 529 Education Revolution Is Here

Tax-free accounts have become more powerful, but some states are resisting.

Michael Toth, Dan Lips
Pursuit of Happiness
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The Next Californias

Colorado, Washington, and Oregon have adopted many of the policies contributing to the Golden State’s decline.

Joel Kotkin
Pursuit of Happiness
Aug 25, 2025
The Moral Collapse on Campus Is a Result of the Hollowing Out of the Humanities

Mending a civic and intellectual catastrophe.

Alexander Duff
Pursuit of Happiness
Aug 18, 2025
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Arthur C. Brooks on the Pursuit of Happiness in an Unhappy World

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Arthur C. Brooks on The Art & Science of Getting Happier: Live at The Texas Tribune

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Melissa Kearney on Two-Parent Privilege and Social Mobility

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What Evil Can and Cannot Teach Us

Reading Andrew Klavan's "The Kingdom of Cain," a meditation on how we learn about love and creation from evil.

Nathaniel Peters
Pursuit of Happiness
Aug 29, 2025
The French Origins of Urban Renewal

Paris’s drastic transformation, often termed “Haussmannization,” was unprecedented in scope and set the stage for future traumatic episodes of urban renewal in other countries, including America.

Tyler Turman
Pursuit of Happiness
Aug 22, 2025
Diversity, Real and Imposed

Diversity imposed drowns human spontaneity and the shades and gradations of man’s mysterious existence into heartless uniformity, bearing no pulses or imaginations.

Gregory M. Collins
Pursuit of Happiness
Aug 21, 2025
The Education of David Mamet

The inherent complexity of an artist is that he ought to be nationless, placeless, even languageless. But Mamet proves that such a thing is impossible.

Emina Melonic
Pursuit of Happiness
Aug 15, 2025
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