Just the social facts, ma'am

Last week Yuval Levin had a piece in the New York Times saying that there had been a "collapse of our confidence in institutions — pub...

A couple of years ago, I proposed that "American society has become a lot more socially egalitarian over the last 60 years or so. Edu...

Ross Douthat had a looking-back-at-the-decade column in which he said "the 1990s, was a period of hubris , when we half-believed that...

In 1964, a special Gallup survey asked people for their reactions to the following statement:  "We shouldn't think so much in inter...

David Brooks made an interesting observation in his column:  "We’ve seen gigantic events like impeachment, the Kavanaugh hearings, the...

Sometimes I start on a post but abandon it, usually because it no longer seems interesting or gets too complicated.  One of these times was ...

I was looking at the final Ipsos/Mori poll before last week's British election, and saw a remarkable table.  The key figures: Age    ...