Social Media Ideas for Claude S. Fischer

Social Capital: Which U.S. Regions Are Bowling Alone?

The Politics of the Downwardly Mobile Professional Class

The debate over whether Graham Platner is “working class” comes at a time when more and more people are at risk of falling into it.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: The forgotten middle

How America abandoned cities like Milwaukee that built the working middle class

Who is losing out in marriage market competition?

Over the past half-century, U.S. four-year colleges have shifted from enrolling mostly men to enrolling mostly women, while the economic position of non-college men has weakened ma...

The UFC Cage Match Theory of America

A new book traces American anti-egalitarianism from slavery's defenders to Silicon Valley's would-be philosopher-kings.

Graham Platner and the Working-Class Fetish

This bloc won’t be wooed by cosplay and pandering. Th...

The missing men of the American marriage market

A new study suggests the growing educational and economic divide between men and women is reshaping marriage and family life in America — leaving many women with a shrinking pool o...

In Seattle, Socialism Is the Flip Side of a Faulty Evolutionary Theory

Mayor Katie’s father is David Sloan Wilson, an esteemed evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University. Source

The Gating of the American Dream

Social mobility in America is fundamentally broken, not because we have hollowed out the middle class but because we’ve hollowed out places, argues the political scientist Ian Brem...

The Happiest City in America Is Not What It Seems

Low divorce rates, strong families, and high incomes helped make Fremont America's happiest city. The full story is more complicated.

Claude: What Are You Good At?

    Last week, I was up in Montreal for a keynote presentation to 750 Bank RIAs. Morgan Housel was the keynote the day before (tough act to follow!). Today, I am speaking with an o...

America's Great Dad Divide

American dads have never been more devoted to their children. But increasing numbers of men are choosing never to enter family life at all, writes Brad Wilcox.

Strangers Next Door May Prefer Keeping Their Distance: Block Talk

A survey suggests the American neighborhood remains important but no longer plays a central role in everyday social life.

Why men keep dropping out of the labor force: It starts in childhood, when kids see how males around them struggle, econ...

"Our findings suggest that experience effects can turn short-run declines in labor demand into long-run declines in labor supply."

The Frisco Test: What Happened in One Texas Suburb Signals a National Shift

Earlier this month, an Indian slate ran for Frisco City Council and school board: Sreekanth Reddy, Vijay Karthik and others. Every one of them lost. As it turns out, in America, y...

Who Leads? Relative Age Effects on Social Capital

A fascinating paper and result: This paper studies the causal effect of being the oldest within a school cohort on social capital. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and...

Gig Work, Planning Agency, and the Relevance of Outside Options

Brightly clad delivery drivers, darting in and out of restaurants and traversing the city on bicycles, mopeds, or in cars, have become a persistent sight across urban areas. Their...

A Working-Class Party Without Many Workers

There’s an irony at the heart of the D.S.A.’s ascendance.

SF Election Turnout Looking Historically Low, and Why Does No One Vote on Election Day Anymore?

Mid-year special elections and primaries aren't often huge draws when it comes to voter turnout, but San Francisco has a major decision to make about a Congressional seat that coul...

The Work Crisis and the Work Still to Be Done

Labor scarcity can force a society to notice the people it has become accustomed to ignoring. If employers cannot endlessly draw on imported labor, they may eventually have to redi...

The Stranded Talent Dilemma: A Challenge to Higher Ed, Employers, and Government

Millions of Americans face a job crisis: They’re employed but not moving up and they don’t know what to do. Here’s some of what we need to ease the problem of stalled careers. The...

One More Chair: Building America’s Future at a Local Potluck

On a very warm Sunday afternoon on July 5, Utah’s communities and cul-de-sacs were filled with more noise and hustle and bustle than normal. The smell of burgers and hot dogs perme...