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<title><![CDATA[Kay Hymowitz - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15668.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Kay Hymowitz]]></description><category domain="15668">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Leave]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/eat-pray-leave?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a long time, folk wisdom held that men were the losers in the marriage bargain.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Girl Disorder]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-new-girl-disorder</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why are young women so prominent in anti-Israel protests?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Every Day Is a Mental Health Day]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/review-of-bad-therapy-why-the-kids-arent-growing-up</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Abigail Shrier's astute and impassioned analysis of the mental-health crisis afflicting American adolescents]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Indispensable Institution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/review-of-the-two-parent-privilege-by-melissa-kearney</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new book may relax the taboo in policy circles on discussing the importance of two-parent families.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barbie's Checkmate&nbsp;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/barbies-checkmate</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Greta Gerwig's film is outfitted with so many layers of irony as to disarm the doll's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the film's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'most ardent critics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Transgender Children's Crusade]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-transgender-childrens-crusade</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With its vision of autonomous young people in touch with their innermost desires, gender identity negates all we know about growing up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Really To Be an Antiracist: Teach Black Kids To Read]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-really-be-an-antiracist-teach-black-kids-to-read</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an old joke about a chemist, a physicist, and an economist stranded on a desert island with only a sealed can of food. The chemist and physicist each propose their own ideas about how to open the can. The punch line comes from the economist, who proffers: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'First, assume...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Students Chasing Grad Degrees Isn't Good for Society]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/08/14/more-students-chasing-graduate-degrees-isnt-good-for-society/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not just metaphorical to say that a master's degree is the new bachelor's degree: about 13 percent of people aged 25 and older have a master's.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the New Child-Tax Credit Won't Live Up to the Hype]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/why-the-new-child-tax-credit-wont-live-up-to-the-hype</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The missing element is family stability]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Goes the Neighborhood School]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/neighborhood-schools</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve always been a sucker for the romance of the neighborhood school. When I was a child, I walked by myself to the old stone building in suburban Philadelphia that housed the nearest elementary school. I memorized multiplication tables and traced cursive letters in classes filled...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Surprise: The Republican Working Class Is Not Just White]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/latino-voters-surprised-progressive-observers-on-nov-3</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Latino voters surprised (and disappointed) progressive observers on November 3 because they are more likely to respond to economic issues than identity politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Social-Justice Mob Cancel Hamilton?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/future-of-hamilton-musical</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The hit musical, now a movie, celebrates the American Founding so unabashedly that it seems ripe for cancellation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nuclear Family Is the Worst Family Form--Except for All Others]]></title>
							<link>https://ifstudies.org/blog/yes-david-brooks-the-nuclear-family-is-the-worst-family-form-except-for-all-others</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the past several years, David Brooks has made the decline of American communities and social isolation central themes in his writing. For those of us who share his alarm over these trends, he has been an indispensable voice. So, it comes as a surprise to read The Nuclear Family Was a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Woke' Critics Outraged Men Stay Away From 'Little Women']]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/little-women</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Woke critics express outrage that men stay away from a movie with little to offer them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Identity Politics Are Backfiring on the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/democrats-identity-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party's leadership class cares much more about identity politics than its voting base does.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wrong Immigration Debate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/intergenerational-mobility-us-immigrants</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a new study shows, the question is not whether newcomers prosper in the United States'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but whether their generational progeny will keep moving upward.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welfare Reform Has Delivered for Single Moms]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2019/09/13/the-critics-were-wrong-welfare-reform-has-delivered-for-single-moms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the Census Bureau released its report on the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s income, poverty and health-insurance coverage for 2018. News that the percentage of Americans with insurance took a troubling stumble '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the largest since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein and All the Others: An Explainer]]></title>
							<link>https://quillette.com/2019/08/06/jeffrey-epstein-and-all-the-others-an-explainer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein is the model villain for this cultural moment. He stands at the nexus of three of our hottest flashpoints: male sexual assault, capitalism's oligarchs' greed, and corruption, and the vulnerability of children horribly mistreated in Manhattan townhouses and private...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gentrification for Social Justice?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/gentrification-for-social-justice</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new Federal Reserve report casts doubt on the conventional wisdom that neighborhood improvement hurts poor urban residents.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Decline of Family Unleashed an Epidemic of Loneliness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/decline-of-family-loneliness-epidemic</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Meritocracy Scandal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/college-admissions-scandal-meritocracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What the college-admissions scandal tells us about America's broken meritocracy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Really Toxic Is 'Toxic Masculinity']]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/toxic-masculinity</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From Twitter mobs to razor ads to APA guidelines, a cultural meme is doing far more damage than what it warns against.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Corroboration, Evidence Must Transcend Emotion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/ford-kavanaugh-testimony-16199.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Ford-Kavanaugh testimony was emotionally grueling on both sides'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??but emotions should not guide our conclusions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Family-Breakdown Denialists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/family-breakdown-denialists-15719.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Social scientists want more welfare for children from single-parent households.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth Behind the Trump Storm]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/truth-behind-trump-storm-15676.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. may want to welcome low-skilled workers to do the jobs '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Americans won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and to help them in the early years of assimilation. But the prospect of a multi-generational proletariat class, hovering near the poverty line and dependent on government help, is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mother of All Disruptions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/mother-all-disruptions-15251.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[his is not to say that AI optimists don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have plenty of evidence on their side. AI, defined as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fully autonomous machines that don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t need a human operator and can be reprogrammed to perform several manual tasks,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is already helping save workers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' lives and limbs....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Democrats Make Nice With the Deplorables?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/can-democrats-make-nice-deplorables-15313.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few prominent liberal writers venture outside of the partisan bunker.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is There Anything Grit Can't Do?]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/PgyKZEkKxM</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie vs. Hillary: 2 Candidates, 2 Brooklyns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/kay-hymowitz-candidates-brooklyns-article-1.2593868</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a few days, the Democratic Party will bring us the Battle of Brooklyn between scrappy hometown upstart Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and establishment stalwart, sometime New Yorker Hillary Clinton. Though I doubt the two campaigns realized it when they chose the Duggal Greenhouse in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Spike Lee Is Wrong About Gentrification]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_4_gentrification.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kay Hymowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 1990s, decades after the riots that followed the 1968 murder of Martin Luther King, the Washington, D.C., neighborhoods of Logan Circle and Columbia Heights still showed scars of that terrible time. Through many of those years, the mostly black residents of those areas would be in...]]></description>
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