Conversations with David Blankenhorn

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In his new book – Thrift: The History of an American Cultural Movement – IAV Fellow Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of a national movement that promoted an amalgam of values and practices ranging from self-control, money management, and efficiency to conservation, generosity, and planning for the …

Glenn Loury, Sr., is a big, warm and fiercely intelligent man. His son, Glen Loury, Jr.– in all important respects – is just exactly the same. If you want to spend some fruitful minutes exploring the fraught landscape of sexual identity, class division, racial reality, and generational conflict in …

Glenn Loury, Sr., is a big, warm and fiercely intelligent man. His son, Glen Loury, Jr.– in all important respects – is just exactly the same. If you want to spend some fruitful minutes exploring the fraught landscape of sexual identity, class division, racial reality, and generational conflict in …

Two prominent Catholic intellectuals, Joseph Bottum and Charles Reid, sit down in our studio in New York City to consider what it is like to change one’s mind as a member of an ancient institution with a complex process of arriving at settled understandings of truth. All three wrestle with what are…

For the past thirty years, Charles Murray has authored titles that have sparked the essential debates. "In 1984 - Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980." In 1986 - "In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government." In 1994 with Richard Herrnstein - the controversial - "The Bell Curve: Intel…

David and Linda agree on the need for a New Marriage Conversation that tackles inequality head on – and disagree about a few other things. Amy draws out the broad range of interests and insights in Linda's latest collaboration. In this edited conversation we get the best of Linda - first as a publi…

David Blankenhorn interviews Larry Mead, one of our foremost experts on poverty and welfare, on the importance of marriage in the current debate about inequality. Lawrence M. Mead teaches politics at New York University and is one of the nation's leading experts on poverty and welfare — arguably mo…

David Blankenhorn sits down with John Corvino to discuss why he signed The Call for a new conversation on marriage – and goes deep into a number of topics that sometimes are avoided at the kitchen table. John Corvino is a scholar, lecturer, and gay rights advocate who teaches philosophy at Wayne S…

Host David Blankenhorn asks two liberals why they signed "The Call for a New Conversation on Marriage". Steinfels is a professor at Fordham University, a prominent writer and journalist specializing in religious affairs, and a co-director (with Margaret O'Brien Steinfels) of the Fordham Universit…