Outsourcing Our Brains
Kerby Anderson Many of the concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence focus on AI and should instead focus on the human using it. That is why Christians Schneider warns about “The Danger of...
Trump and Dolls
Kerby Anderson Last month, President Trump stirred up social media when he seemed to be proposing a two-doll limit. He recognized there might be some economic pain associated with his tariffs so he re...
Retirement Age
Kerby Anderson For decades, we have heard that the U.S. needs to be more like Europe. But as I have documented in previous commentaries, if we were more like Europe, we would have less liberal aborti...
Welfare and Work
Kerby Anderson The budget bill that Congress considered had a provision requiring states to enforce a work requirement for able-bodied individuals on Medicaid between the ages of 19 and 64. Dr. Merril...
Overregulation
Kerby Anderson I think most Americans believe we have too many government regulations. But I suspect most don’t have the faintest idea of the extent of these government regulations. Last month, Presid...
China’s Squandered Advantage
Penna Dexter Reuters reports that the Chinese government, which — not-so-long ago — forced a one-child-per family policy on its population, is considering a monthly subsidy to encourage families to ha...
Short Attention Spans
Kerby Anderson Why do young people have short attention spans? That is a question the editors of the Wall Street Journal asked college students to address. Here are some of the best answers. One s...
Great Outdoors
Kerby Anderson Teresa Mull wrote a fascinating article with an intriguing title: “Why lumberjacks are happy and you’re not.” A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey reported that lumberjacks and farmers a...
Social Media and Mental Health
Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about social media and the teen brain. Today I want to talk about social media and its impact on teenagers’ mental health. An article in Axios reminds the reader that...
Social Media and the Brain
Kerby Anderson What is the effect of social media on the brain? Nicholas Carr made this observation fourteen years ago in an article in Atlantic. “Over the past few years, I’ve had an uncomfortable se...
Cohabitation
Kerby Anderson Two decades ago, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead was on my radio program. At the time, she was one of the co-authors of a study done by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University that...
Success Sequence
Penna Dexter It was once a given that a young person would graduate from high school, get a job, marry and then — and only then — have children. No longer. Today, half of American babies are born to u...
