Charles Fain Lehman
@CharlesFLehman
Fellow @ManhattanInst • Senior Editor @CityJournal • Contributing Writer @thedispatch • fiscally Milton Friedman, socially James Q. Wilson • Opinions my own
Some professional news: As of today, I am officially senior editor @CityJournal. Don't worry, I'll still be writing and researching. But I'll also be taking on some duties on with CJ. Including commissioning pieces—which you should pitch me!🧵
The long experiment with expanded divorce may be over.
The new data is in: Divorce probabilities for couples who married more recently start out much lower. Estimates from Yifeng Wan @UVA: ifstudies.org/blog/no-longer…
The new data is in: Divorce probabilities for couples who married more recently start out much lower. Estimates from Yifeng Wan @UVA: ifstudies.org/blog/no-longer…
Nearly 80% of married college-educated women in the U.S. can expect their marriages to last 20+ years. As divorce rates decline, that number may rise even further. @FamStudies: ifstudies.org/blog/the-us-di…
.@ZephyrTeachout insists that America’s food system “is rigged in favor of big retailers and suppliers in several ways” that drive up prices for consumers. @judgeglock explains why her argument is incoherent:
Of course, there is something that is true of both your boss and other people's kids that is not true of your own kids, namely that the latter are your kids.
Not that it really matters with a three-way race, but the Cuomo argument is that his voters just didn't turn out in the primary, and he'd win the general; the Mamdani argument is that Cuomo's voters didn't turn out in the primary, and won't in the general either.
Final, certified results in the mayoral primary. 1,071,730 people voted, which is about 32% of all 3.3 million registered New York City Democrats. Mamdani beat Cuomo 56-44.