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Friday, February 27, 2015
Choose your facts
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I picked up a copy of the Hartford Courant today and was reading an opinion piece by Jonah Goldberg . Amidst a bunch of mysterious pop-cult...
Monday, February 23, 2015
Patriotism
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Rudy Giuliani has gotten a lot of attention for saying "I do not believe that the President loves America." Brendan Nyhan points...
Monday, February 16, 2015
Race, Poverty, and Policy
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A 1994 CBS/New York Times survey asked about the racial composition of poor people, the racial composition of people on welfare, and a numbe...
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Race, Poverty, and Perception
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A few weeks ago, Amitai Etzioni had an article entitled " The Left's Unpopular Populism ." It was mostly just a collection of...
Monday, February 2, 2015
Empathy and politics
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Nicholas Kristof followed up the column discussed in my last post with another called "How do we increase empathy," which offere...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Lives of the poor
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On Sunday, Nicholas Kristof mentioned a survey question on whether "poor people today have it easy because they can get government ben...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015
Be careful what you ask for
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Since several of my recent posts have involved complicated calculations, it seems like time for a straightforward report of percentages. In...
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