Just the social facts, ma'am

I promised a post on why conservatism has become a "cause."  An immediate factor is opposition to President Obama.  Some people wo...

In the Republican primary, almost all of the candidates are presenting themselves as committed conservatives.  The one clear exception is th...

It's generally agreed that, compared to people in most other nations, Americans are less favorable to government aid to the poor.  For e...

This blog just celebrated its fifth anniversary, so in honor of that I'll revisit some past posts.  According to the statistics given ...

Barry Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College, had a piece in the New York Times that referred to an international Gallup ...

Although many people are trying to explain Donald Trump's popularity, there's not much information about who  supports him.  The mos...

A couple of years ago, I gave figures for a question on whether blacks "are receiving too many special advantages, receiving fair trea...