Kay S. Hymowitz is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She writes on childhood, family, poverty, and cultural change in America. Her books include The New Brooklyn (2017), Manning Up (2011), Marriage and Caste in America (2006), and Liberation’s Children (2004). Hymowitz has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, New York Newsday, Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, and Commentary.