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Friday, November 30, 2018

Senator, heal thyself

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My last post was suggested by a column about Senator Ben Sasse's new book   “Them: Why We Hate Each Other — and How to Heal.”   The argu...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

So alone?

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About six months ago, I had a post about the claim that there has been a dramatic increase in loneliness in recent years.  I concluded that ...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Odds and ends

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The pollster Stanley Greenberg had a piece in the New York Times today making pretty much the same point I made in my last post:  that in t...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Coalitions and votes

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Both academics and journalists often talk about elections in terms of "coalitions." A coalition is when two groups agree to work t...
Monday, November 12, 2018

The empty quarter

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Last week Ross Douthat had a column proposing that "that a real center-right majority could be built on economic populism and an appro...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Which working class?

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I am going to have a post on a column by Ross Douthat about the possibility of " a real center-right majority " based on the worki...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The forgotten men and women

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There's been a lot of discussion of people who shifted from voting from Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016 and some discussion of people wh...
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David Weakliem
I was a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut from 1994 until my retirement in 2021. I am editor of the journal Comparative Sociology. My new book, Public Opinion, was published by Polity in 2020. Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences was published by The Guilford Press in April 2016.
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