Book Release Event at American Enterprise Institute on January 19, 2016

Soul Mates will be officially launched at a book event at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC on January…

First Steps toward Reducing Inequality (Bipartisan Edition)

In April I attended a symposium in DC organized by David Blankenhorn and the Institute for American Values on the…

To appear in PS: Political Science and Politics, the journal of record for the American Political Science Association Benjamin Highton,…

In Wolfinger (2003), I analyze data from the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households. Controlling for family structure of…

UC Berkeley held a memorial for my dad on April 11, 2015. Here are most of the eulogies. J. Merrill…

My friend Paul and I discuss the pros and cons of bitcoin. I learned a lot from this exchange. Nick:…

This is an extended version of an essay that appeared in the Pacific Standard on January 8, 2014. Women made…

This is a response to “The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind,” a New York Times blog post on…

A short colloquy with my friend Tim, who teaches history at Northeastern. I’m more optimistic about the prospects of capitalism…

A recent report from Pew Research’s Center for the People & the Press returned attention to the exasperatingly familiar question…