Just the social facts, ma'am

Many people say that Americans increasingly live in "bubbles" in which they don't encounter people whose political views diffe...

I have a post coming about the popular idea that certain kinds of people live in "bubbles" in which all of their friends share the...

A couple of weeks ago I had a post on the association between a county's income distribution and voting.   Larger numbers of poor (unde...

In 2018, I had a post objecting to the description of contemporary political polarization as "tribalism."  Despite my disapproval...

A few days ago, the NY Times had an article on the increasing association between the prosperity and voting patterns of counties.  It noted...

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...