New York City progressives want to import Vienna’s social housing model to fix the Big Apple’s affordability crisis – and Canadian activists would likely feel the same way. The central European capital has certainly promoted its approach as a global success story. But as Tobias Peter demonstrates in City Journal, Vienna’s 100-year-old experiment is expensive, complicated, prejudicial and increasingly unsustainable – not a model but a cautionary tale.
Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.
