Author: unitedfamilies

The Negative Effects of Incarceration Stretch Across Multiple Generations

Jun 4, 2024 |

I developed a course in Families and Incarceration for the Catholic University of America in the fall of 2021. The literature on the collateral consequences of the prison boom had come to include enough on spillover from prison into family life to engage college students for more than a semester. I believe mine was the second such course offered to US college students, and I stood on the shoulders of giant Anna Haskins to create it.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Against Smartphones

Jun 4, 2024 |

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas, appears uncowed by Big Tech. Inspired by Jonathan Haidt’s new book Anxious Generation (which I reviewed favorably in American Affairs), on May 6, Sanders sent a letter to her fellow governors in all 50 states, exhorting them to “work together” in rescuing America’s children from the “dark sewer of social media and screen addiction.” The governor also forwarded copies of Anxious Generation, and highlighted its final chapter, where Haidt lays out a legislative agenda to get kids off of smartphones and social media.

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Christianity, Capitalism, and Colonialism – Nothing To Be Ashamed Of

Jun 4, 2024 |

We’ve all heard the rhetorical attacks on Western Civilization—often centered on Christianity, capitalism, or colonialism, and often on all three. Among radical leftists, the consensus is that these elements are evil, but given that each is currently or historically integral to civilization as we know it, it’s worth examining the data to determine whether they deserve to be so despised.

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