Just the social facts, ma'am

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

A populist puzzle

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 A few days ago, Paul Krugman asked "why has [the Republican party] also remained the party of plutocrats and the enemy of any policy ...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

What's next?

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 Recent columns by Paul Waldman  and Jamelle Bouie say that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, conservatives will take aim at Griswold v. Conn...
Monday, April 11, 2022

No-knock raids

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 In February, Amir Locke was killed in a "no-knock" police raid in Minneapolis.  No-knock raids seem to have started in the 1970s,...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Nothing plus nothing

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At the end of 2020, John Lott wrote (and Donald Trump tweeted about) a paper that purported to find evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. ...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Going to extremes

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 Since 2000, some surveys have asked "Overall, would you describe the views and policies of the [party] as too extreme, or generally ma...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Forced to be fair

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 In my last post, I said "Most people either favor free speech for their side only, or think that controversial ideas shouldn't be...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Speech on campus

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 I've had a number of posts based on GSS questions about whether certain kinds of people should be allowed to teach in a college or univ...
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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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