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Young People Don't Think Much of American Institutions Anymore
Unlike 20 years ago, few high schoolers now view the country's key institutions positively. This growing cynicism is a major crisis for the military…
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May 2024

The Political Causes of the College Enrollment Crisis
Republican high schoolers don’t want to attend college anymore. That’s a problem for conservatives, for colleges, and for the country.
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January 2024

Higher Education's "Illiberal Liberalism" Problem
Asymmetrical illiberalism (i.e. that illiberal liberals vastly outnumber illiberal conservatives on college campuses) is a major problem for higher ed…
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July 2023

Unpacking The "Gen Z" Mental Health Crisis
Conservatism and participation in its core institutions - marriage, church, and the military - are associated with better mental health. Gen Z, however…
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Ideology and Intolerance at America's Elite Universities
America's future elites are more liberal, more "tolerant," and more supportive of disruptive action in response to offensive speech than the country…
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March 2023

Is DEI Destroying Free Speech on Campus?
In the first-ever empirical study of the question, I show evidence that larger DEI bureaucracies often hurt and almost never help the speech climate on…
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February 2023

The Military’s White Democrat Problem
Conservatives have correctly identified whites and "wokeness" as key components of the military’s recruitment crisis. Unfortunately, they are focusing…
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November 2022

A Brief Note on Bad Faith
A Media Matters report has gone viral with a deeply misleading analysis of violent crime coverage on Fox News
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October 2022

Does the Military Have a Racial Harassment Problem?
The Workplace and Equal Opportunity Survey has been interpreted as providing an unequivocal "yes" but a new look at the data says otherwise.
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Big Tech's Surprisingly Weak Case for Affirmative Action
Google, Meta, and Apple are trying to persuade the Supreme Court to allow race-based affirmative action by referencing a small and deeply flawed group…
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August 2022

Does the Military Really Have an Extremism Problem?
The empirical data raises far more questions than it answers
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July 2022

On Giant Leaps...
The Navy's Misappropriation of Levine et al.'s "Ethnic Diversity Deflates Price Bubbles"
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