Finding a better signal
Forgive me as I quote myself: Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education argues that employers value college degrees not because college imparts skills and knowl...
Author: Praj
It’s the white supremacy, stupid!
George Floyd’s death moved police brutality and mass incarceration beyond liberal activists and made them issues for all Americans. The riots and violence...
Which brothers and sisters?
I don’t exactly know why, but we noticed the police started stopping gang members. Stopping them in the park and on street corners. We noticed more patrolling b...
Marriage makes the grind worth it
I want to expand on this tweet from Justin Murphy: While Justin’s analysis is true, here’s another side of the story. I’m probably biased beca...
Arrange relationships, not marriages
So at the end of my last post, I said that although 3 years ago I was gung-ho about arranging marriages, I’m now more hesitant. This post goes into why. F...
You’re good enough
About 3 years ago my wife and I discussed how dating and marriage in her childhood church can be very similar to modern Hindu “arranged” marriages. ...
How to help the foster care system
Last month I was happy to read Hans Fiene’s essay encouraging more people to become foster parents. My wife and I have been fostering for four years, and ...
Job success is multi-dimensional
Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education argues that employers value college degrees not because college imparts skills and knowledge, but beca...
We need more shuffling to vocational schools
I often learn that that ideas I thought were original actually aren’t–someone else got there years or even decades earlier. In 2015 Andy Rotherham c...
The reverse co-op and the education MVP
Many colleges have a co-op program for business and engineering majors. It allows students to get much more work experience than they typically would. Starting ...