Just the social facts, ma'am

For a long time, I accepted, without really thinking about it, the common view that most Americans support equal opportunity.  But I have ...

Congress recently passed a debt ceiling increase with less drama than we've become accustomed to.  On NPR the other day, they were inter...

A number of studies showing that the United States has county less social mobility than most other affluent nations.  These studies, which a...

Paul Krugman says "the public doesn’t 'get' macroeconomics," meaning the Keynesian idea that a budget deficit is desirabl...

In an earlier post , I pointed out that that the identity of "red" and "blue" states today is completely different from...

Last month I had a post about the relationship between inflation and growth .  I said that it looked like there was no relationship until in...

Kevin Williamson has an article on poverty in Appalachia .  In it, he quotes the publisher of a local newspaper in Owsley County, Kentucky: ...