Just the social facts, ma'am

  A comment on my last post  noted that the Harris Poll question saying the Supreme Court had decided "that the police could not questi...

 This post started as a postscript to my previous one, on public opinion about the Supreme Court in the 1960s.  I gave figures from a 1966 H...

In my last post, I discussed predictions that the Supreme Court would lose legitimacy because of public disapproval of the decision overturn...

 Since the Dobbs decision, I have seen many claims that it has (or will) cause the Supreme Court to lose legitimacy (here is one example ). ...

  In 1946, a Roper/Fortune survey asked "Here are three different kinds of job: A job which pays quite a low income, but which you were...

 Michelle Goldberg had a column arguing that there has recently been a turn agains t feminism.  One piece of evidence is a poll sponsored b...

 The New York Times had a story about the health effects of coffee , based on a paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine . The study found t...