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 I'd heard about a decline of self-reported happiness in recent years, but I hadn't looked at the numbers until I saw a post by Noa...

 In a recent op-ed in the New York Times , Gregory Conti and Aaron Sibarium wrote "as race and gender preferences became more overt and...

 A few years ago, I said that beliefs about changes in crime rates were affected both by actual conditions and partisanship, but that the e...

 Between March 2020 and December 2022, several polls asked people how much trust they had in Dr Anthony Fauci:  a great deal, a fair amount,...

 Ross Douthat recently had a column about "elite failure," which began by discussing Paul Ehrlich and his warnings about overpopu...

 A few days ago, Paul Krugman wrote that there has been a vicious circle in which rich people influence government policy to favor their int...

 A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times published an op-ed by Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell, and Courtney Elliott called " The Secret...