Just the social facts, ma'am

Last month, I gave figures for opinions on a question that was asked in several European nations in 1989 and in the United States a couple o...

Since 1991, a number of surveys have asked people if they agree or disagree with the statement "I admire people who get rich by working...

My last post observed that Harvard students (and faculty) were mostly Republican until the 1940s, and pretty evenly divided in the 1950s and...

In my last post, I said that "Before the 1960s, the political atmosphere at most [universities] was moderate to conservative."  Th...

A lot of people think of the time since the late 1970s as a conservative era.  But Ross Douthat observes that many conservatives don't ...

In 1992, an ABC News poll asked people if they agreed or disagreed with the following statement:  "Whatever its faults, the United Stat...

Everyone agrees that there is a lot less trust and willingness to compromise in Washington than there used to be.  What's less clear is ...