Just the social facts, ma'am

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Old and new

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 I'll start with the new.  The SAVE Act requires proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.  If it were implemented, which party...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

More than politics

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 A New York Times story yesterday said that the conservative organization PragerU had just released ratings of the American presidents, and...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

The (roughly) three percent

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At one time, it was often said that almost all Americans thought of themselves as part of the middle class, regardless of their actual econo...
Friday, February 6, 2026

Misdiagnosis

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 Last week, the New York Times  published the transcript of an interview  with the the heading "Jay Bhattacharya, the N. I. H. Director...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Words, words, words

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 A few days ago, Megan McArdle had a column objecting to descriptions of Trump as a fascist, not necessarily because they are wrong, but b...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

What could happen here, part 4

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In my last post, I gave some evidence that many people aren't attached to core principles of democracy (see also this post ).*   Howeve...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

What could happen here, part 3

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 A few days ago, Bret Stephens wrote that American democracy will survive " because most Americans, including most Republicans, remain ...
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David Weakliem
I was a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut from 1994 until my retirement in 2021. I am editor of the journal Comparative Sociology. My new book, Public Opinion, was published by Polity in 2020. Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences was published by The Guilford Press in April 2016.
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