Just the social facts, ma'am

 On December 21, 2020, Jennifer Senior had an opinion piece in the NY Times called "95 Percent of Representatives have a Degree.  Look ...

  A paper by Jacob Brown and Ryan Enos is getting a good deal of attention.  They find that there is partisan sorting even at the level of ...

 Last week Ross Douthat had a column about the Dr Seuss controversy.  He said that liberals used to have a strong aversion to the idea of b...

 After the death of Rush Limbaugh, Ross Douthat had a piece in which he said "The United States has moved dramatically leftward sinc...

 In 1974 and 1976, the Gallup Poll asked "More generally, how much trust and confidence do you have in the American people as a whole w...

 My last couple of posts have argued that popular support for activist government didn't decline with the rise of the civil rights movem...

 My last post was about a claim that white support for welfare state programs dropped sharply between 1960 and 1964, when the civil rights m...