The broken windows theory states that visible signs of disorder and misbehavior in an environment encourage further disorder and misbehavior, leading to serious crimes. The principle was developed to ...

In 1850, French economist Frédéric Bastiat wrote an essay about “That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen” in which he told the parable of the broken window and his lesson is as important now as ...

If you’re familiar with the Broken Windows theory of policing, you may have learned of it, perhaps indirectly, from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller “The Tipping Point,” published 25 years ago. In the ...

In 2025, I wrote about the lessons I learned from Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson, a 20-year-old book that changed the way I keep house. One such lesson involves the "broken windows theory" - and it ...