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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Which way is up?

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 A few days ago, the New York Times printed a discussion among David Brooks, Ross Douthat, David French and Bret Stephens.  The moderator, P...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Where the ducks are?

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Since the 2024 election, a lot of people have said that the way for the Democrats to win is to move towards the center.   A few days ago, T...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Dictatorship of The Donald?

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 A few weeks ago, I had a post on the relationship  between people's main source of news and their opinions on three questions--whether...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Getting tired of winning

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There have been a lot of news stories about Donald Trump since he took office, but I don't recall seeing many about his approval ratings...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Vibe shift?, part 4

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 I wasn't planning to write another post on this topic, but then I ran across some questions on immigration policy, which was a major is...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

News and views

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 There has been a lot of speculation about the effect of "new media" on politics, but we don't have much information.  This is...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Late and unlamented

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 There are a number of things I want to write about, but this post involves something I didn't.  In September , I was informed that I wa...
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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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