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An article in the New York Times a few days ago said "a December Pew poll revealed the lowest level of public support for an active Am...

In 1994, a Roper Reports survey listed a number of occupations, and for each one asked if "people in that occupation are generally over...

In the New York Times, Arthur Brooks says :  "The 2006 World Values Survey, for example, found that Americans are only a third as likel...

Writing in the New York Times recently, Arthur Brooks says that calls for the redistribution of income are motivated by envy.  I hope to h...

A few days ago, the New York Times had a story which said "In the news media and in popular culture, the notion persists that millenni...

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...