Made in America

The End of Work

Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Reversal of Fortune

Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Survey Says . . .

Polling can be useful, even when imprecise

  • Claude S. Fischer

A Street Divided

The Long Life of Segregation

  • Claude S. Fischer

Just Deserts

Americans seem likelier than other Westerners to believe the world is fair.

  • Claude S. Fischer

The Problem with David Brooks

In true American style, Brooks understands our lives to be the products of individual will alone.

  • Claude S. Fischer

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Left Out

The instability of the white working class.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Censor This

Political correctness tends to close off important, if uncomfortable, topics.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Virtuous Debt

Running up debt is as American as the founding fathers. So is fleeing from it.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Eco-Puritans

The urban left’s eco-puritanism takes many forms. 

  • Claude S. Fischer

Libertarianism Is Very Strange

Outside the fantasy novels of Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein, libertarianism does not make much anthropological or historical sense. 

  • Claude S. Fischer

Inventing the Social Network

Social media is only the latest development in a long history of community support.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Learning Sympathy

The success of humanitarian appeals  is not a given of human nature. They work because we have come to sympathize with the suffering of others, distant and alien.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Extremely Local

The Unique American Obsession with Small-Scale Government

  • Claude S. Fischer

Can Liberals Get a Witness?

The left’s separation from the churches means continuing estrangement from middle America.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Getting Smarter

Why are human beings becoming more intelligent?

  • Claude S. Fischer

Is the Gender Revolution Over?

After decades of such astonishing change, the gender revolution appears over—before its completion.

  • Claude S. Fischer

E-Disharmony?

Online Dating Isn’t Threatening Monogamy

  • Claude S. Fischer

Happiness Policy

Should economists be studying happiness?

  • Claude S. Fischer

Choose Your Choice

The Great American Obsession with Choices

  • Claude S. Fischer

The Leisure Gap

Why Don’t Americans Take Vacations?

  • Claude S. Fischer

How to Be Poor

The “culture of poverty” isn’t about moral failure but about reasonable adaptation to circumstances.

  • Claude S. Fischer

That’s Not Really Destroying America

An interview with Fischer about his new BR column.

  • Claude S. Fischer
  • David V. Johnson

The Loneliness Scare

Isolation Isn’t a Growing Problem

  • Claude S. Fischer
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