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Saturday, July 18, 2026

The few or the many?

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 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...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Get back

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 A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times published an op-ed by Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell, and Courtney Elliott called " The Secret...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

Done them proud?

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 In 1999, Gallup asked "Overall, do you think the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be pleased or disappointed by the wa...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

That's great

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 In May, the Guardian published a list of the 100 best novels "as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide."  They ...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Highly respected, part 2

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 In a recent post , I found that people who believed that they were treated with "less courtesy or respect than other people" wer...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

A distinction without (much) difference

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Last year I had a post about the claim that men don't have as many friends as they used to.   I noted that the 2021 survey cited as evi...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Highly Respected?

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 It's often said that a large part of Donald Trump's support represents a reaction to the disdain that ordinary people receive from ...
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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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